[Premium-Rx] Every so often I just have to stop and ask myself

[Ed]

I'm not quite at that point yet.  Perhaps when I turn 70.  In the meantime, I am just about out of rack space though I intend to build that dream ham shack soon, utilizing the best antennas and tuning in to some of the stations that I currently listen to in Saudi Arabia. The DX on this end is phenomenal!

> On Mar 11, 2014, at 23:36, W4NJ <w4nj at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> This may sound self serving if not verbose but I made a deal with her recently…. I’ll sell off the entire collection if I can have one receiver and one receiver only…..an R&S EB500. She unwittingly or should I say unknowingly, agreed. So the EB500 is here now and the soon to be sold stablemates are being slowly divested.
> 
> Win win? Who knows. Time will tell I suppose. Oh, by the way, I will be missing a few 12 Step meetings gang.
> 
> Cliff - W4NJ
> 
>> On Mar 11, 2014, at 4:30 PM, Les Locklear <leslocklear at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> This affliction has probably reached "Black Plague" proportions when you consider the numbers that are afflicted
>> and the numbers of receivers that each of us had pass through our hands in that quest for the "Holy Grail." We
>> all know it isn't out there, yet "just one more receiveritis" has set in and there is no known cure. Many years ago
>> I compiled a list with make, model number and serial number and whether it had been sold/traded. I didn't start
>> that list until a few dozen had already passed through. I have 144 listed and, sad to say only one remains in the
>> house. That being a highly modified Icom IC-746, loaded with filters and modded for dc to daylight operation.
>> 
>> Like Mac, age (70) and a realization that no such magical receiver exists, my one time vast collection has disappeared.
>> But, what a ride, I have tried just about everything that I desired and lots of middle of the road receivers. Some
>> disappointed, some enthralled, Eddystone, TMC, Collins, Hammarlund, National, Drake, Ten Tec, Yaesu, JRC, Hallicrafters,
>> AOR, Lowe, Lafayette, Allied. Echophone, R.F. Harris, Siemens, Icom, RCA, Racal, Military Receivers, R-390/URR (no non-A's),
>> R-390A/URR (over 30) SP-600's (21) R-725, R-1051B, D and G, R-388 and R-388A, Palstar, Eton, and some lesser forgotten
>> orphans.
>> 
>> I do still have two 1936 Zeniths, a 1940 Philco and a 1940 RCA19K console that has spectacular audio and works very well
>> on the shortwave bands.
>> 
>> My wife will have an easy job when I'm gone....................................
>> 
>> Les Locklear
>> 
>> "You can have a college degree and legitimate
>> parents and still be a dumb bastard."
>> 
>> Unknown.......
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: Mac
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:17 AM
>> To: Premium-Rx at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: [Premium-Rx] Every so often I just have to stop and ask myself
>> 
>> 
>> Subject says it all,  I am damn near 70 years old,  why just why do I
>> have this attraction for stand alone RECEIVERS, like most of us, over
>> the years at any one time I have had or presently have 1-3-5 + really
>> good receivers.
>> These receivers are typically expensive to very expensive $1,000 on the
>> low side to 4k plus on the high.. While they had/have many features for
>> their day.
>> 
>> There is hardly a receiver made today that comes as a part of a quality
>> Amateur Transceiver that wont run performance rings around most if not
>> all of our PREMIUM Rx's.  The advent of roofing filters,  full DSP
>> features throughout the set, size weight and add in reliability all the
>> other factors..
>> 
>> Yet i still am drawn back to stand alone receivers that are more prone
>> to needing expensive repairs take up more desk/rack space and do less.
>> Not withstanding less and less to listen to from 100kc -30mhz beyond ham
>> bands.
>> 
>> I now have come to also look upon this fine group as a "support group"
>> where friends don't let friends buy and rely on combination
>> receivers/transmitters.
>> 
>> What started this was the posting several weeks ago from the UK guys
>> offering WJ 8711A at i thought a reasonable price, then a friend
>> mentioned he was selling his FT-1000D  and i asked myself what would my
>> friends on PremRx do...  but i didn't wait,  last night i bought the
>> FT-1000D
>> 
>> It must be so very hard to break a truly harmful addiction
>> [drugs/alcohol]  if I can't even break my addiction to Premium Rx's  ..
>> I need some sort of like a 12 step plan for guys like me ...
>> 
>> Thanks for listening.  mac/mc  w5mc
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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