[R-390] The radio machine, getting bit by the bug

[Barry]

I feel sorry for that poor piece of carpet trapped underneath one side of that rack...

Thanks,
Barry - N4BUQ

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Norm n3ykf" <normanlizeth at gmail.com>
> To: "Cecil Acuff" <chacuff at cableone.net>
> Cc: "R390A" <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>, "Tisha Hayes" <tisha.hayes at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 10:50:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [R-390] The radio machine, getting bit by the bug
> 
> Kids are 23 months now. The Super Pro (PS, bottom, radio next) is
> missing a knob, courtesy of little hands. They are just tall enough to
> grab the kc and mc knobs on the 390 (Thanks Don!) that's the next
> lowest in the rack. Don't let them play with the radios much. Strongly
> supervised visits in the radio shack.
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/n3ykf/24149126921/in/dateposted/
> 
> Magic of radio? Whole house has an intercom with FM radio feature.
> They moved a chair in position and started pushing knobs and spinning
> volume and tuning controls.
> 
> OOOOHHHHOOOOOOHHHHOOOHHHH! As they jump up and down. Ran like hell
> when they maxed the volume. That was six months ago. Cookies do fit
> (in a child's mind) in a CD tray.
> 
> I'm looking forward to showing them analog electronics versus digital.
> Current radio is an Ettus B210 for satellite.
> 
> Norm n3ykf
> 
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Cecil Acuff <chacuff at cableone.net> wrote:
> > You were cadillac'n...SP200.  Bug bit me at 14.  Allied Radio Shack "P" Box
> > kit...regen SW receiver...same stations HCJB, various stations from USSR,
> > Sweden etc..  Magical times. I remember coiling up 50 or 60 feet of wire
> > and tossing it on the roof of the mobile home we rented not knowing it
> > would have been much more effective if I had stretched it out to a tree.
> >
> > Also had a tube type mono reel to reel recorder....recorded the entire Top
> > 70 of 1970 broadcast off the local BC station, on New Year's Day 1971....
> > Wish I still had that tape.
> >
> > That was a lifetime ago.
> >
> > Sent using recycled electrons.
> >
> >> On Apr 14, 2016, at 11:50 PM, Tisha Hayes <tisha.hayes at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I was bit by the bug when I was around ten years old. My father came back
> >> from some hamfest with an SP-200 in a complete cabinet with a crinkle
> >> black
> >> finish and the outrigger power supply. At nights I would sneak down to his
> >> radio room and turn it on to listen to HCJB or Radio Australia. He figured
> >> it out because the radio was never left on the ham bands.
> >>
> >> A few years later that was gifted to me and he set it up on a little stand
> >> in my closet of my bedroom. That was it.
> >>
> >> I learned morse code by the dits and dahs of TVI, trying to find out what
> >> was so important in those secret messages.
> >>
> >> *Ms. Tisha Hayes*
> >> *"*There are many who live in the mountains and behave as if they were in
> >> **the
> >> town; they are wasting their time.*
> >> * It is possible to be a solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd;
> >> and it is possible for those who are **solitary to live in the crowd of
> >> their own thoughts.*"*
> >> **-Amma Syncletica of Alexandria**
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