On Tue, 3 Dec 2013, Baron wrote:

Tim Wescott Inscribed thus:

On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 08:10:26 +0000, Martin Brown wrote:

BTW is "boat anchor" the US term for tube based or old dead kit?

It's the term for old radios that glow in the dark and that you
shouldn't pick up by yourself for fear of rupturing something.

I dunno if it's US or English-speaking amateur radio parlance, though.


I belive its US in origin. In the UK we refer to "Doorstops" !

One could think of it as "ballast".

One time someone I knew bought a big Sola transformer at a hamfest, and it
was still in his trunk months later. He claimed it gave his car better
traction, and it was winter, but I suspect getting it out of the trunk and
up to his apartment was another factor.

Michael