In article , Dave Heil
writes:

I have a half side of beef in the freezer, your choice of beverage, a
comfy guest room and plenty of radio gear.

I'll bring the hot sauce. They don't call it "Total Insanity" for nothing.

If you talk 'EY into coming,
you guys can fight to see who gets the futon in the shack overflow room.

I got an air mattress for travel....

I keep wondering how she'd "restyle" N2EY's Southgate 7 contraption .

aw geez...

I see it in a National 60's blue wrinkle cabinet with satin stainless
panel. There'd be no miniaturization with plenty of room for mods.

Miniature is for poodles.

Yeah, great start . . I like your National Blue and the brushed SS
panel concept a bunch for openers. Needs to be expanded though.

Too fruity for me.

Jim's obvious genius being that he's managed to come up with a 100W
80/40/20 CW xcvr which is spread across two whole shelves.

Anybody can make 'em small. I make 'em GOOD.

How many FD QSOs you make so far with the little stuff? The Type 7 did 629 one
year....

Breakthrough systems design concept; "widely distributed CW
transceivers".

It's called "modular design". The cat's meow.

About as counter-miniturization as it gets right? So he's already
ingeniously solved that one. As a matter of policy I submit that we
should concentrate on just the packaging problem and let him handle
the "engineering". He is, after all, the group MSEE.

"Anybody who says size doesn't matter never had a really big one".

I understand, now that you've 'splained it to me. We could use a
four-foot rack, turned on its side. That's going to be one expensive
stainless panel.

Fits in a two-footer vertically with room to spare.....

My HRO is the mechanical marvel but for performance,

Nice old boat anchors, great dial mechanisms.

Ugh. Ten turns to cover the band? Puhleeze, I did better in high school.

The Type 7 uses a cap from a junked BC-221. The Type 6 and 5 used caps from
ARC-5 transmitters.

Swords into plowshares.....

I'd have to say
that the RME-69 has it beat.

You got a 69 too??!

Yeah--with 5 and 10m converter, and also from the same era an FB-7 and
an SW-3.

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~postr/bapix/RME69.html

I copied one feature from RME: they didn't label much on the panel. They said
if you didn't know what the knobs did you shouldn't be using the set.

THAT's the one Collins rcvr I'd love to have. I have a meatball S3-B
but I'm gonna dump it. Needs a power cord. Which is a minor pain in
the butt job, need to dredge up a chassis plug.

Talk to me!

I probably have a plug that will work. And a line cord. Etc.

Got rid of all my Johnson gear, though (sniff). Adventurer, Viking 2 with 122,
Valiant.

73 de Jim, N2EY