[TowerTalk] Buying equipment on eBay
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k3hx@juno.com
Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:05:23 -0400
OM,
A slight variation is the Hamfest Translation Guide:
Worked the last time I tried it.
Translation: In the autumn of 1978, right before I spilled a beer into
it.
Just back from the factory
Translation: They couldn't fix it, either.
Don't know if it works or not.
Translation: Broke
Needs a 7Y6NTR tube but they are easy to get.
Translation: All it takes is several hundred dollars to get one of the 5
remaining.
Rare
Translation: Only 710,000 made.
Modifications done pro---fessionally.
Translation: At SCREAMIN' STEVEN'S CB Shack.
Collector's Item
Translation: If I don't unload this junk, the stuff goes to the trash
collector.
Comes with original box.
Translation: And this makes it work better how?
Late serial number.
Translation: Surreal would be more accurate.
Priced as marked. (or "firm")
Translation:Seller has been off his medications for a few days and
labours
under delusions.
If it doesn't go today, I'm putting it on eBay.
Translation: If I don't find a sucker for this junk here, Barnum's Law
dictates I'll find
one on eBay.
I'll send you the manual, accessory plugs and the CW filter as soon
as I get back home.
Translation:Right after the pyramids turn into Jello.
Removed from working equipment.
Translation:This piece is the reason the equipment stopped working.
First quality military surplus.
Translation:During the Korean Conflict, this was first quality from the
lowest
bidder.
Recently rebuilt.
Translation: And it still does not work.
Very stable.
Translation: Like unto a drunk standing up in a hammock.
Recent calibration sticker.
Translation: Put it on myself this morning.
73
Tim K3HX
CW Elitist
QRP Snob
Old Fart
20 WPM Extra
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