[R-390] EK-07 Appreciation Tour

[Mark Donaldson]

I would think that an added benefit would be to make
the shipping company very wealthy and of course the
poor EK07 worse for the ware from all those drops off
the back of the UPS truck, come to think of it those
things were built like Panzer tanks they probably
could take the drop off the UPS truck with no damage. 

If you want to find one at a reasonable price check
the EBay UK and Germany sights they are on there and
are not anywhere near the price you will see them for
domestically of course shipping costs have to be
considered.

Mark  WA1QHQ
--- John KA1XC <tetrode at comcast.net> wrote:
> > The R&S EK-07 still wins hands down PERIOD.
> > Hank
> > KN6DI
> 
> Hi Hank,
> you know I believe you, but the problem is that
> those receivers are so darn
> rare I've never ever seen one except on Ebay and in
> the article published in
> Electric Radio a while ago. So outside of yourself
> and a handful of hardcore
> tube radio collectors nobody understands how good
> they are. And the
> multi-Kbuck price tag is another thing; for that
> kind of  loot I'm thinking
> I'd have more fun putting down a payment on an old
> motorcycle instead of yet
> *another* boatanchor radio.
> 
> So here's what I propose......The EK-07 Appreciation
> Tour!, it works like
> this...........
> 
> You ship one of those bad boys over to a list member
> (I'll start), and we
> each get a week to listen around on it and find out
> how deficient and
> physically puny our beloved R-39x's are in
> comparison. And during that time
> we each promise to take meticulous notes on its
> superiority and post the
> results here, and also to everyday at sunrise give a
> snappy heel-click in
> the direction of Munich (location of Rohde & Schwarz
> world HQ).
> 
> Finally after our week is up we then take care of
> shipping it to the next
> guy on the appreciation tour list and include an
> extra $5 towards a kitty to
> reimburse you for the original shipping cost. At the
> end of the tour, about
> a year, the result will be a small horde of EK-07
> fans who will then acquire
> one at any cost and before long we'll create our own
> EK-07 mailing list.
> Sound cool or what!
> 
> ;^)
> John
> 
> 
>
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