Re: [Elecraft] Old Gear was Re: KPA500
Jack Benny?.gee I remember that.an I'm only nearing old as dirtGrin Gary On 6 September 2011 13:34, Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz wrote: What I find saddest is that I can't fire up my S-40 and swing down into the broadcast band to catch a Jack Benny program or an next episode of The Green Hornet... So I passed it onto a younger fellow who doesn't remember those programs. 73, Ron AC7AC -Original Message- Old gear is about ... well ... old gear, and love for it. It has nothing to do with specs. Restoration is literally an act of love ... at my age you'll go for anything you can get ;-). Would I rather SWL with a K3 or an SX-28? K3 loses period. I have yet to hear anything (at least ssb, cw) on my K3 that I can't copy with an NC-303 with a bit of effort, and copy, with smoother and more pleasing audio (than the K3 frankly) on an SX-115. Not that I'd part with my K3 ... OR the SX-115 ... I'm waiting for the K3PP6V6 audio output option. ;-) Grant/ NQ5T __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile Elecraft Equipment K3 #679, KPA-500 #018 Living the dream!!! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Old Gear was Re: KPA500
To the rest of the DOF network...my granddaughter just asked me what sort of GameBoy I had when I was a kid... I had to tell her that I was a pre-TV type. I was 17 before I ever saw a TV set, and at least 18 before I saw a PICTURE on a TV set. S-40 and SX-28 are good memories. My first commercial TX was an HT-17. 807, 829B, 813, 866...all good examples from the numerology of the 1940's. I too grit my teeth and pass by all those wonderful oldies on eBay. When I recently stopped off in front of an SX-43 at a local ham fest and remarked on having owned one, the seller asked how much did it cost you to restore it? I told him I bought mine new and carried it and its speaker in my arms a mile and a half from the store to home, on December 26, 1947. Those were spectacular sunspot years, and I remember listening to a Philadelphia FM broadcast station from home, which was Fairbanks, Alaska. Sic Transit Gloria Monday (it is actually Tuesday @0230) John Ragle -- W1ZI (once KL7PM) __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] Old Gear was Re: KPA500
I see these receivers and think back to that time when I wanted one, but I resist the temptation, the new solid state gear has much better specs and reviews, Old gear is about ... well ... old gear, and love for it. It has nothing to do with specs. Restoration is literally an act of love ... at my age you'll go for anything you can get ;-). Would I rather SWL with a K3 or an SX-28? K3 loses period. I have yet to hear anything (at least ssb, cw) on my K3 that I can't copy with an NC-303 with a bit of effort, and copy, with smoother and more pleasing audio (than the K3 frankly) on an SX-115. Not that I'd part with my K3 ... OR the SX-115 ... I'm waiting for the K3PP6V6 audio output option. ;-) Grant/ NQ5T __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Old Gear was Re: KPA500
Thats GREAT! My R4s a,b,c all sound better on SSB then my K2! But I love my K2. Kurt, W7QHD From: n...@tx.rr.com Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 19:27:48 -0500 To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] Old Gear was Re: KPA500 I see these receivers and think back to that time when I wanted one, but I resist the temptation, the new solid state gear has much better specs and reviews, Old gear is about ... well ... old gear, and love for it. It has nothing to do with specs. Restoration is literally an act of love ... at my age you'll go for anything you can get ;-). Would I rather SWL with a K3 or an SX-28? K3 loses period. I have yet to hear anything (at least ssb, cw) on my K3 that I can't copy with an NC-303 with a bit of effort, and copy, with smoother and more pleasing audio (than the K3 frankly) on an SX-115. Not that I'd part with my K3 ... OR the SX-115 ... I'm waiting for the K3PP6V6 audio output option. ;-) Grant/ NQ5T __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Old Gear was Re: KPA500
There is, a portion of the brain, that gets satisfaction by enjoying and reliving a distant past memory. For my part, it is getting into AM again with fever. Yes, the newer K3 gear takes the center position in the ham/computer room. However, down in the winecellar, lurks a Bauer 707 with is companions the HRO 50 and a NC183 with, of course, appropriate full range speakers. Now, there is where the smooth AM sounds are found. Cherish them, they are what dreams are made of... Never outdate and discard the past memories. Mel, K6KBE From: Kurt Cramer w7...@msn.com To: n...@tx.rr.com; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, September 5, 2011 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Old Gear was Re: KPA500 Thats GREAT! My R4s a,b,c all sound better on SSB then my K2! But I love my K2. Kurt, W7QHD From: n...@tx.rr.com Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 19:27:48 -0500 To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] Old Gear was Re: KPA500 I see these receivers and think back to that time when I wanted one, but I resist the temptation, the new solid state gear has much better specs and reviews, Old gear is about ... well ... old gear, and love for it. It has nothing to do with specs. Restoration is literally an act of love ... at my age you'll go for anything you can get ;-). Would I rather SWL with a K3 or an SX-28? K3 loses period. I have yet to hear anything (at least ssb, cw) on my K3 that I can't copy with an NC-303 with a bit of effort, and copy, with smoother and more pleasing audio (than the K3 frankly) on an SX-115. Not that I'd part with my K3 ... OR the SX-115 ... I'm waiting for the K3PP6V6 audio output option. ;-) Grant/ NQ5T __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Old Gear was Re: KPA500
What I find saddest is that I can't fire up my S-40 and swing down into the broadcast band to catch a Jack Benny program or an next episode of The Green Hornet... So I passed it onto a younger fellow who doesn't remember those programs. 73, Ron AC7AC -Original Message- Old gear is about ... well ... old gear, and love for it. It has nothing to do with specs. Restoration is literally an act of love ... at my age you'll go for anything you can get ;-). Would I rather SWL with a K3 or an SX-28? K3 loses period. I have yet to hear anything (at least ssb, cw) on my K3 that I can't copy with an NC-303 with a bit of effort, and copy, with smoother and more pleasing audio (than the K3 frankly) on an SX-115. Not that I'd part with my K3 ... OR the SX-115 ... I'm waiting for the K3PP6V6 audio output option. ;-) Grant/ NQ5T __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Old Gear was Re: KPA500
Speaking of the Green Hornet, has anyone watched that movie yet? I saw it a few weeks ago, its not too shabby at all. I don't remember that radio series but I do remember listening to The Goon Show and Flash Gordon on the radio in the kitchen whilst mum and dad were making dinner. I am however old enough to remember black and white television in my younger days and I can remember when the first colour tv pictures were sent in Melbourne by the the new TV station ATV-0. (Little did I know then that later in life I would be cursing ATV-0 and others for taking up so much of my beloved 6M band!) :-) I can still remember pounds, schillings pence and the changeover to dollars cents in 1966 (I was 7 years old at the time) I think that we are more than just a little off of the topic now.. 73 de Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF East Innisfail QLD, Australia - Original Message - From: Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz To: 'Grant Youngman' n...@tx.rr.com; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 1:34 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Old Gear was Re: KPA500 What I find saddest is that I can't fire up my S-40 and swing down into the broadcast band to catch a Jack Benny program or an next episode of The Green Hornet... So I passed it onto a younger fellow who doesn't remember those programs. 73, Ron AC7AC -Original Message- Old gear is about ... well ... old gear, and love for it. It has nothing to do with specs. Restoration is literally an act of love ... at my age you'll go for anything you can get ;-). Would I rather SWL with a K3 or an SX-28? K3 loses period. I have yet to hear anything (at least ssb, cw) on my K3 that I can't copy with an NC-303 with a bit of effort, and copy, with smoother and more pleasing audio (than the K3 frankly) on an SX-115. Not that I'd part with my K3 ... OR the SX-115 ... I'm waiting for the K3PP6V6 audio output option. ;-) Grant/ NQ5T __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[Elecraft] Old Gear was Re: KPA500
I love old gear. I have lots. But it does take some maintenance and time and tender loving care. Yes there is great audio and lots of knobs to twiddle. But you wonder, with the complexity of some of the old radios, why the MTBF isn't 10 seconds. Still when puttering in the shack, I turn on my HQ-180 and listen to talk radio. Just moving those darn old timers is getting harder. George, W6GF __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
