[Swan] Fw: The infamous Atlas 400X Looking for info, etc.

[Gary Smith]

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From: "Gary Smith" <gsmith at standardelectrical.ca>
To: <Swan-Network at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: The infamous Atlas 400X Looking for info, etc.


> Here's a New Years story for the group.
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> There might be another one somewhere.  When I was in Herb's garage back in 
> 2000 ??? I was picking up his 600 Twins, a monobander (serial number 2) 
> and a bunch or other paperwork, photo's etc.  There was a 400X I believe 
> on his desk that he had been working on trying to debug.  His wife relayed 
> the story to me that he had been working on it without much luck on and 
> off over the years.  Everytime he would solve one problem another would 
> pop up.  He had become very frustrated with the rig, and very much 
> regretted taking the deposits. He would have liked to return the money but 
> was unable to.  He had always been able to fix bugs in his radios and had 
> been sure in his ability to get the radio working.  Looking back he was 
> probably suffering from the early stages Alzheimer's and his thought 
> process was not as it had been.
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> As I had flown to his house and I had to ship everything back home UPS  I 
> looked at the radio, all the extra boards, parts, etc and decided I didn't 
> feel like taking it as my rental car was almost full.  There was drawers 
> full of misc. parts for other radios, folders of notes, photo's, manuals, 
> etc.  I regret now that I didn't pack it all up as she told me that 
> anything I didn't take was going to the dump.
>
> Here's the questions:
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> When I left the rig was still sitting on the desk in the garage.  Did 
> someone go there after me a pick it up?
> There had been another ham (was it John Bruchey???) there before me 
> helping her.  Who was it and did he go back?
> Did the stuff go to the dump or did someone get it after me?
> I left Herb's Collins on the shelf.  Who got that? (Did you guys know Herb 
> used a Collin's receiver to test his against?)
> Did someone pack up all the other parts????
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> 73 Gary VE4YH
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