On 9/11/2011 8:35 PM, David Pratt wrote: > Good to see you using the right name for them, David. These days > ex-CBers, or those influenced by CB, tend to call rigs and transceivers > "radios". To me a radio is something on which one listens to broadcast > stations. > > You are quite obviously a traditional ham - good on you.
My radios have been "radios" since I first got on the air with a 6AG7/6L6 rock-bound CW radio in 1953. CB didn't exist then over here in the Colonies, so I couldn't have been influenced by it. I have had many "radios," some transmitted, some received, some did/do both, occasionally whether or not I wanted them to [see PS below]. ARC-5's, R-388, BC-348, lots of Heath [currently enjoying a re-birth on this list], Hallicrafters, RME, Swan, Collins, Kenwood, Yaseu, Drake, and now an FT-847, K3, K2, KX1, KPA500, P3, IC-4300H [in the truck], and FT-51R and Kenwood TH-G71 [both going dead because I forget to charge them]. Even the P3 is a "radio" for me, the manual on page 28 refers to it as a "true SDR receiver." I have been on 11 meters when it was still a ham band, shared with a bunch of industrial/medical noisemakers, however I've never had a CB license [when they still existed] and I've never had a CB radio. It's called "Amateur 'Radio'," and sometimes, people refer to me as an Amateur Radio Operator. Then of course there are the internationally recognized Q Signals: INT QKB: How many knobs does your *radio* have? INT QKK: How many of those do you know how to use? 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011 - www.cqp.org PS: Sometimes, the 6L6 in my first TX got a case of "oscillator envy," watching the 6AG7 actually make RF I suppose, which garnered me my first pink slip from the FCC. I learned after that to recognize when it wasn't feeling good and tune it a little off frequency. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
