[R-390] My Sincere Appoligies!!!

[Al Parker]

Hi Roy et al,
	Well, nobody ever took me seriously, why should I?
	I've always felt it was "uckumpucky", and said something like that 
whenever it got on my fingers.
	The quote from Ratty to Mole in Winnie the Pooh is in my signature --
	Never have tasted the insides of a meter, don't plan to.  But the 
memory gets leaky-er all the time, it must be full of BBOD's.
	Todd/Boomer how're things going "up north"?
73,

Al, W8UT
www.boatanchors.org
www.hammarlund.info

"There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much
worth doing as simply messing about in boats"
Ratty, to Mole

On 2/27/2017 12:49 PM, Roy Morgan wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 12:37 AM, Todd, KA1KAQ <ka1kaq at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  ...
>> But hey - this is nothing. If you really want to stir things up, ask about
>> how to repair an original meter and you'll get a warning not to lick the
>> radium paint.
>
>
> Ah yes!  I even had a macro programmed into my keyboard to type out:
>
>     Morgan's Law for R-390 Meters and VR Tubes:
>     Don't break them open and eat the insides.
>
> I did hope that most readers would realized that it was (mostly) tongue in
> cheek.
> (Not tongue in meter....)
>
> .. Or what is the 'correct'
>> name for the black crap inside the filter capacitors....
>>
>
> Hmmm... maybe Todd could refresh my memory:
> Is it uckumpucky, or with an "n": unkumpucky.
>
> I guess I never was sure.
>
>
>
>> ...  We don't take ourselves too seriously.
>
>
> Oh we should never do that.  I propose a rewrite of the line from Winnie
> the Pooh:
>
> "There is nothing quite so satisfying as
> simply messing abut in radios."
>
> (sorry I don't remember that too well to make a proper re-casting of the
> classic advice.)
>
> Roy
> Who remembers days of old, even if dimly
>