The essence of Ham radio is that it is a technical hobby that also
carries the capability to chat to other people. It seems that by
being incapable of dealing with trivial faults that you have fallen at the
first hurdle. Indeed, as you said that your Dad's gear has been in the
attic for years you are not in a position to make the criticism that
you do below.

You are creating problems where possibly none exist.

Mediocrity such as you display below is one of the marks
of the CBer. The _REAL_ Radio Ham tackles such issues
with enthusiasm; the enthusiasm for technical challenges
that is the mark of the _REAL Radio Ham.

Perhaps you would feel more at home in one of the CB groups, OM?

"Steffan" wrote in message
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On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:26:49 +0100, Airy R. Bean wrote:
Old gear's function is to radiate and receive RF.
It also consists of difficult to find tubes out of spec, leaky capacitors,
noisy resistors, sucks a lot of power and generates a lot of heat and in
most cases is inferior technology compared to today's gear. It still has
charm though and I can see why people would want to restore and collect
it.