In on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:25:32 +1100,
in rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors, 'MoiInAust' wrote:


"MoiInAust" wrote in message
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"Dave J." wrote in message
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In on Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:49:54 +1100,
in rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors, 'MoiInAust' wrote:

"Dave J." wrote in message
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I'm wondering if there's anyone here, local(ish) to me, who'd be
interested in an Avo Valve Characteristic Meter. My Dad recently passed
away and I've inherited it, along with a beautiful CR100 ex-Navy comms
receiver.

Are you prepared to deliver to Australia? G

Gladly!

If you'll pay the air fare ;-)

Baggage'd cost more than the ticket - it's a lovely old thing but
probably
weighs more than me..

For that matter, if you'll include my better half, a boat ticket'd do the
job grin

Dave J.

Well, ship is how we came out here (at full cost I may say). The 6 week
line voyage was a wonderful experience.

Yes, that's roughly what I was thinking as I made the post, that as long
as I could bring the lovely lady I'd actually *prefer* to travel that way.

Aircraft seem too much like teleport, no real experience of how far you're
travelling.

If I had the money I would gladly
ask you and your wife to bring the tester... but you might pass me going
the other way!

Well, thanks for the thought :-) Her Ladyship has a brother over there and
he seems to prefer it overall. Apparently, the seasons seeming so skewed
is the only main drawback compared to this wet little island.

And by the way Dave, I don't think the AVO Mk 4 is all that heavy. What I
call heavy is my old AR88 at 100 lbs (or approx 45 Kilos!).

(Two posts for the price of one :-))

I've just looked it up and yes, that definitely appears to make the grade
as a full-fledged boatanchor!

I wonder what the CR100 weighs in at, it's heavier than the Avo. As an
aside, there seems to be a real commonality of appearance between
equipment from those days. I think it's just the control knobs/switches
plus the slightly yellowing meter movements.

I've just finished checking out what my Dad left me and I've found he or
my Mum binned (yes fricken BINNED) a large green box jam packed with
valves that I remember from my childhood. So I have some spares for the
comms box and nothing else :-(( They moved house to much smaller premises
and I guess storage cost outweighed memory. I just wish he'd warned me

Real shame as this newsgroup's poked my mind into daydreaming back to
childhood, playing with is it a 6SA7, 6ST7 maybe? Octal double triode
anyhow, along with some sort of 9pin pentode. Built a 7meg crystal oscy, a
couple of different VFOs and a little TRF radio. All with that CR100 sat
in the background to pick up any RF I managed to stick into the air

Ah, one day, one day. I'll get a chunk of workbench set aside for valve
experiments again. Trouble is that I first need a supply of valves. Some
of the above triodes, perhaps a few ecc83s (81s?) some old line-out valves
for some oomph and a 6V6 or two. Yeah, that'd do it... Amongst the
chuck-aways were a couple of 807s too.. :-( /daydream mode

Dave J.