I know the feeling. Had an old Hammarlund short wave rcvr once . It weighed 500pds but made me home sick for "Go west young man" when I tuned in to the Hams from the west coast. I still have a Hallicrafter in the attic for ham applications. No SSB possible.
Ace schrieb:
*Got the old Radio out and working again..But what the young man does not know is the exitement of sending CW to a guy in Pakistan with 6W !
Just a small old gray table top model.
MY Father-in-law is a radio wizard and former Navy radioman
from the Korea war. That means he keeps old RCA tubes in the
Garage in case someone in the future needs their Hallicrafter
repaired like me<G>
"This old radio has all the charm of 1930 to me<G>" said Gramps-
I wired up a strand of old wire out the window of Rancho Deluxe
and went on a hunt
*All from home with the twist of the dail..
SO WHAT! (*said GMA#3911)
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"The news is availible on CNN and on the web!"
*yea man, but with the hallicrafter- I get it from the horses
mouth without filtering.. I have to run it thru my brain..
"It's old.. It's wierd, it's a hassle"
*I get it.. You embrace new tech while rejecting old tech..
when you say "so-what" -you cheerily vote to follow the herd
without getting a second opinion..
"Huh.. so what! *I'm right.."
(Suddenly from the radio came the voice of British Prime Min.
Tony Blair)
"..and of course it goes that SOME anti-US feelings should be
expressed at this time..however for the most part they-.."
*Josh jumped- "what did he say?"
*I think he's talking to a non-American audience and useing
diplomacy to build bridges of logic to different peoples<G>
"Yea- cool"
Josh went back to play Playstation 2 with the game cheats he downloaded from the web<G>
And to hammer out a conversation in code.
Guenter
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