>available "NOS" tubes probably someone else's castoffs. It's tempting
>to have a "parts" rig because some of the components ( like switch
>decks ) are made from unobtanium. Sometimes the shack seems to more
>resemble a junk yard than anything else.
I had to laugh at you final remark. A good friend of mine
in Eagle, AK once gave me a really cool mil-surplus xtal cw
transceiver. I asked him why he would just give me the rig he had
coveted for so long. He said, "Neal, I guy can only deal with so much
junk." Over the years I began to fully realize what a deep philosophical
concept he had left with me.
--
Neal, NL7VL
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:11:49 -0500 (EST)
"Hulett, Russell" <rhulett1@consolidated.net> wrote:
>"Am I willing to pay for a throw away plastic rig in order to get all
>kinds of cool extras to play with..."
>
>Since I own an Omni VII, my answer is evidently "yes", though didn't
>buy it to get cool extras but for the receiver, which I still think is
>pretty good, noise floor always impresses me. Also wanted to own at
>least one new rig built by professionals ( not me ), with a warranty,
>while recognizing that it's operational life was probably closer to a
>PC than anything else. That's how everything is these days, it's a
>throw-away world and the time from production to landfill keeps
>getting shorter.
>
>OTOH, also own a Drake 4 line and 2B, several CW ransmitters from the
>50s, and Ten-Tec 509, 540, 544, and 546. The old stuff is fine, but
>working on stuff all the time gets kinda old. Especially the old tube
>gear has resistors changing value, capacitors becoming leaky, and the
>available "NOS" tubes probably someone else's castoffs. It's tempting
>to have a "parts" rig because some of the components ( like switch
>decks ) are made from unobtanium. Sometimes the shack seems to more
>resemble a junk yard than anything else.
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