What state Ron? I keep a list of wierd town names at: http://af4k.com/townnames.htm
Best regards - Bry Carling > On Apr 20, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Ron Barlow <[email protected]> wrote: > > There was a town named "Mars", near the location, where I seriously mis-spent > my youth. (It is reputed to be the only town of that name in North America, > or perhaps anywhere on earth). > The lettering on the back of the local trash pick up truck states > "Satisfaction gauranteed or double your garbage back". > I often wonder if anyone ever accepted their offer?? Perhaps not a bad idea, > if the contents were electronic throw aways, such as SX-28s, etc? > > 73 de Ron n4gjv > > -------------------------------------------- > On Sat, 4/19/14, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] 2C39 Tubes > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, April 19, 2014, 10:49 PM > > Rather than get up from the bench to > go get a new tube, I'd try swapping the two 2C39s. It > always irritated me when someone else had already done > that. :-) > > In high school, I had my own little business taking care of > several companies' spcial industrial radios. I hated > the radios in the "fix other trucks" trucks. It never > failed that those radios would be coated with gear > lube. Not only is that stuff sticky...it also > stinks... and it transfers from item to item just by > touch. I finally made a radio washer & dryer to > get that @*~,-":@ lube off the radios. I was glad that > those radios never seemed to break very often. > > That work helped me escape engineering school with no > student loans. > > > Eric > ------ Original message------ > From: Glen Zook > Date: Sat, Apr 19, 2014 8:36 PM > To: [email protected];[email protected];[email protected]; > Subject:Re: [Boatanchors] 2C39 Tubes > > The Motorola T-44A- series used one 2C39 as a tripler/driver > and the other as the final amplifier. Towards the end, > Motorola started supplying 3CX100A-5 / 7289 tubes instead of > the glass 2C39 tubes. > > During my junior year at Georgia Tech, when I worked for the > Motorola Service Station in Atlanta, Georgia, they had a > service contract with a garbage pickup service that used the > T-44AAV-3000 series equipment. Being "low man on the > totem pole", I usually got the "honor" of working on those > units. I swear that the drivers had more, well aged, > garbage in the cabs of the trucks than in the back! > After working on some of those trucks, everyone gave me a > "wide berth"! > > _______________________________________________ > Boatanchors mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors > > > _______________________________________________ > Boatanchors mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors _______________________________________________ Boatanchors mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors
