On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:17:23 -0500, Radioman390 wrote
(in message ):

The link goes to a medical site which reports that 7 people in Madison WI
inserted radio tubes in their butts


Just be glad that it was seven rather than five!


(reason?) and had to go to hospitals to
have them removed. I assume many more people inserted them and removed them
successfully themselves. But why?

They couldn't find appropriate transistors?


Was this done to revive the tubes?

No; it was - more than likely - done to receive pirate radio and stations
with a (fill in the blank) disposition.

Is this practice limited to Wisconsin?.

Who said they were "just" practicing?

Guys talk about boatanchors (a nautical term) ; I suppose we should be
thankful for transistors, uh?

Nope. I betcha the tubes were easier to troubleshoot.




Gray Shockley
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Why is it that a R-390 resembles a truck
transmission more than a radio?