Ed Zeranski wrote:
............ Those early "rice boxes" have a lot in common
with the "true boat anchors".

I rebuilt a K'wood 520 for Gary KM6A. It had tubes (6146)so it is BA for
me...perhaps the end of BA but BA just the same. Crap sakes! If you look
the other way, as in back, before tubes there were crystal sets...proto
solid state....so our beloved tube sets were perhaps a short lived
transitional stage....~8^* OOOOH but I like them anyway.

I came in late to the game, having been weaned on transistorized
radios. And am happy to have discovered hollow state technology at this
late stage of the game. The glow, the sound, the look and the smell too,
for cryin' out loud. All awesome.

To put it another way, perhaps more understandable today...

TUBEZ RULEZ!


- 73 de mike KB3EIA -