From: Dave White <mausoptik@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] why did Heath die?
What did surprise me was that when I bought a couple of large vacuum variable
capacitors on the fleamarket at Dayton and was carrying them around and back to
the car, I lost count of the number of guys with extra class callsign badges
who asked me what they were. Is there a message in there somewhere?
Dave G0OIL
## That is a sad state of affairs, to say the least.
## I attended a hamfest locally, here a few years ago with a buddy. One old
geezer had a table set up with parts galore... like box's full of groth turns
counters, military knobs I haven't seen in years, [ identical to the furled
knob on the goth]... loads of glazed ceramic stand off, air variables etc,
etc. He had no taker's...so I cleaned up there. If that had been back in
1972, he would have sold out in 2 hrs flat.
## The kicker was, I had my Eimac T shirt on [7" diam Eimac logo.. like u
see on the sides of old yellow Eimac box's, that had glass 3-500z's 4-1000's
etc] There was an easy 200 hams there, and not one comment from anyone.
A few fellows wanted to know what a turns counter was. A buddy of mine
snagged a NIB 4CX-1500B, new socket, and new fil xfmr..dirt cheap. Most of
the hams had never seen a tube before ! The only other thing I was asked
was... 'do u monitor 34/94'.. and did I have a 440 mhz xcvr ? I politely
told the fellow that I tossed both my new 2m hand held's into my junk box yrs
ago.. along with the mating 100 w [new, still in the box] 2M amp. 95% of
these folks were VHF ops. Some had the audacity to ask my buddy.. " why mess
with HF, why not use the...internet" !
## back in the early to mid 90's.... 2m packet was all the rage. Once dsl
/cable modems came into vogue, the 2m packet boys left ham radio en masse.
1100 hams in my town.. and just a handful on HF. [5-8 tops]
later.... Jim VE7RF
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