[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The next thing they need to elominate is these electric scooters and
bicycles
that some dealers use to run around the hamfest area on. Wheeled
vehicles
for the truly disabled are fine but all others are a liability.
Ah yes. The Daytonmobiles. It irks me when they get impatient trying to
pass through the flea market when there are a lot of people present standing
around looking over stuff, and stort hooting the horn on those things to get
people to move out of the way and let them through. Sometimes I have the
urge just to set all my goodies down on the ground and take a rest right
there on the spot.
I have no problem with power and hand tools, audio amplifiers, antique
broadcast radios and most other electronic stuff. The more good tools I can
get my hands on the better, for homebrew projects. Many of the parts in my
station were taken from old broadcast radios and hi-fi audio equipment.
Before WW2, there was not always a clear distinction between amateur radio
and broadcast listening, so antique broadcast receiver and vintage ham stuff
converge to a certain extent. My very first ham receiver was made from a
floor model console broadcast radio that had a longwave band and a couple of
shortwave bands in addition to the regular BC band. I built a homebrew BFO
for it so I could receive CW. It made a better ham receiver than many of
the "entry level" novice receivers on the market in the late 50's.
Don k4kyv
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