On my website, I advertise for "boat anchor" repair. One day, in the mail, I got a request from a YMCA camp to supply anchors for their canoes and row boats! I seems that they had done a "Google" on "boat anchors" and my name and address came up! Glen, K9STH
Website: http://k9sth.net On Thursday, September 4, 2014 8:27 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: I think that the term was a long-ago tongue-in-cheek reference to old radios, back when even the new radios could give a guy a hernia. The oldies back then were so huge and heavy they could probably hold a boat against the tide if tossed overboard on a rope. I also think that as time moved on, oldie radios began to include the used-to-be-new equipment that weighed less, oh say, 50-75 pounds or so. (ha). It also always seemed that the term implied that boatanchors had a limited number of admirers. These days I believe the term is affectionately used for nearly any old and/or obsolete tube-type equipment, though the larger and heavier it is, the more appropriate the term sounds. I'm not sure that it ever discriminated between commercial, ham or military equipment. There's probably as many variations on exactly what the term "means" as there were Elmers or other teachers from whom the present generations of techies & hams absorbed their radio lore. Wayne WB4OGM -----Original Message----- From: Bob Jackson <[email protected]> To: porch.boat <[email protected]>; puck.boat <[email protected]>; qth.boat <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Sep 4, 2014 4:07 pm Subject: [Boatanchors] Question from an admitted 'Newbie' Is there any kind of general consensus on exactly what is or isn't a 'boatanchor'? I'm a 72 yo and BAs to me are the post-WW2 tubes sets made for the commercial (vice military) market on up to the advent and eventual dominance of the so-called 'solid state' rigs. It seems clear to me that others' definitions go back to a somewhat earlier time and do include re-cycled military gear. What is the general consensus, please. Bob AG5X ______________________________________________________________ Boatanchors mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] Message delivered to [email protected] List Administrator: Duane Fischer, W8DBF ** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com ** This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Boatanchors mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] Message delivered to [email protected] List Administrator: Duane Fischer, W8DBF ** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com ** This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html _______________________________________________ Boatanchors mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors
