[TenTec] In the Days before Rock'n'Roll

[Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP]

Wireless knobs . . . 

Yes, we spoke of KC's (synonymous with today's Hz).  
We tried to reject the term "Hertz", but it came in despite us.

Sometimes I think ham radio was more fun back then.
You know why?
Because we focused on what was really important.
Elmer had a face.  He wasn't a virtual guy in the Internet.
At Field Day he OM drank beer and built beer-can verticals (I was too young
then).

Today everybody is focused on what the industry has tuned our mindset to be
focused upon: 
Meaningless things such as SWR!  Or the radio's standing on Rob Sherwood's
list. 
Heck, Rob himself doesn't even value that much.  Instead he looks to a
Radio's overall value.

I had he fortune to live in Europe (Germany) in the 1950s and 1960s.
My father was a US Army soldier.
So I can relate to (remember listening to) the radio stations that are
referred to in this wonderful song by Van Morrison, entitled "In the days
before Rock and Roll."

See (hear):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF9eu7vyOEQ 

This great song is little known in the US, yet well liked here in Europe.
Of course there is morse code in he background!

"Come aboard!"

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Funny, we talked about "wireless knobs".
The SDR industry gave us "knobless wires".
Where have the days gone by?
Once in a lifetime...

73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)