Don't remember the rig, but didn't they run an ad with a skeleton
holding down the key, too? I think that they pulled that ad after
a couple of hams compalined that it "made fun of death". Oh, well,
a word to the wise........When I was a boy ( I'm 47 now) all the
transmitters had standby switches. This can be achieved today,
at least on the Paragon, by opening up the transmit enable line
on the rear panel. Maybe we could build inline RF sensing time out
timers.
73, Bob WB2VUF
David Newmyer wrote:
>
> After reading about a couple of the incidents of rigs being keyed got me to
> thinking back to the late seventies. I remember ETO ran an ad in QST
> showing an Alpha amp being keyed for two week's or so with a brick on the
> hand key. Although the ad didn't show the rig driving the amp, I seem to
> remember hearing that it was a Ten Tec. Anyone else remember?
>
> 73,
>
> Dave N
>
> N0KM
>
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