"Lucky" wrote:
"Eric F. Richards" wrote in message
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D Peter Maus wrote:
Nothing replaces good basics.
Amen. I agree with that last sentence wholeheartedly.
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Eric F. Richards
"Nature abhors a vacuum tube." -- Myron Glass,
often attributed to J. R. Pierce, Bell Labs, c. 1940
So true. You can have the best rig money can buy but without good basics,
the money is wasted on it.
Well, "the best rig money can buy" ought to have good basics, or, by
definition, it isn't "the best rig."
Say rather, a $5000 radio with a fatal flaw in the basics is sorrier
than a $700 radio with the basics right but no frills.
My FRG-100 was that radio. Not as pretty as the '75...
I think many people leave the hobby or not get
into it because they didn't set things up right. I know I did a lot of
things wrong when I first started out and I'm still learning.
Lucky
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Eric F. Richards
"Nature abhors a vacuum tube." -- Myron Glass,
often attributed to J. R. Pierce, Bell Labs, c. 1940