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July 6th 04, 12:33 PM
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On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 21:31:54 UTC, Doug wrote:
On 1 Jul 2004 06:42:36 -0700, (N2EY) wrote: Wayne was and is full of it. Even if that isn't a factor, the weird, useless stuff that people collect, pottery, knick-knacks, wood furniture, carvings, Hummels, and so on, if an HT-32B appreciates as much as that stuff, it would be worth tens of thousands of dollars. But it won't because the market for an HT-32B is far smaller. I think most "collectors" only collect what the appraisers and antique sales people tell them to collect. Watch a few episodes of the antique shows on PBS. That junque is genuinely weird. Compare it to a fine HQ-150 or a Johnson Valiant. Wayne Green has gotten too much credit - mainly from his own self promotion. Incentive licensing hardly killed off Amatuer radio or the manufactorers of the time. In the early 1960's, Wayne predicted that there would be lots of Japanese hams. When I got on 15 meters as a novice. I was running a DX-60 with one 15 meter novice crystal and a ZL-special. I used to work pile ups of JA stations all running 10 watts or some other strangely low power. It suggested to me that they had an entry license, perhaps comparable to our Novice that gave them 10 or maybe it was 15 watts of CW. I figured that Wayne was right and that the same "hook" that got me fiddling with antennas, peering into the chassis of my SX-101A trying to get a little more ooomph out of it, got them too. I ended up an assembly language and PL/I programmer doing MVS internals, telecommunications using TCAM, TSO internals. Later when Japanese electronics took over, I figured that the same fellows who I worked on 15 meters were now electrical engineers. That was what Wayne predicted in his rambling editorials in 73 magazine. |
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