[AMPS] "the old days"

[Rich Measures]

>
>Pete Smith wrote:
>> 
>>  Makes ya wonder how
>> we survived those days...
>
>Many of us didn't.  

€  amen

>I'm sort of an amateur historian and I love to read old
>QST's from the 30's and 40's.  Every couple of months there was a note about
>some guy going to the big pileup in the sky as a result of a sloppy attitude
>toward HV.  I'm always amazed when I think about the standards of those 
>days -- open racks with plug-in coils (series fed, of course), etc.  

€  when folks drove cars without benefit of seatbelts.  

>Maybe we've 
>gone a bit overboard these days with some of our concerns (HF RF exposure, for
>example), but those guys took their lives in their hands whenever they 
>changed bands.
>
€  not those who switched the B+ off and fastened a ground hook to the B+ 
feed

cheers, Vic


Rich...

R. L. Measures, 805-386-3734, AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures  


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