Dave Heil wrote in message ...
Brian Kelly wrote:


...and I saw a fairly priced 75A-4 at the Washington, PA hamfest this
morning. I resisted.

Woo-woo! Nice piece. What are they going for these days?

Well, there's the ebay price and there's the small hamfest price.
This one was in pretty good shape and a firm 500 clams.

Without knowing just what A4s have been going for these days $500
seems to be reasonable if it's in decent shape.

Ya hafta resist or ya go nuts. I've sworn to myself not to clutter
this place up with any boat anchors.

I have not taken such a vow.

Was not optional in my case.

None. Zero tolerance for boat
anchors around here. But then I spot the R4B and the 75S-3B again and
remember all the goodies I worked and all the fun I had with them and
start to crumble. I need a Boat Anchors Anonymous chapter to help me
deal with it but alas, no such thing . . .

Go with the flow.

Depends on what's flowing where. I have health and space problems and
was sinking in cubic yards upon cubic yards of up to 50 years worth of
CRAP and was almost under when I decided that I had to either take my
life back or commit hari-kari. So I spread almost all of my posessions
out on an empty 20 x 80 foot floor in the old textile mill I'd haunted
since I was a kid. I sorted thru the heap and picked a small pile to
save for myself. Then I invited family members and a few others to
trash pick the heap before I ordered the dumpster. Micollis got his
van load.

Then I went berserk and turned myself into a one-man front end loader
and up the hill to the landfill the 30 or 40 yard trash container
went. In retrospect I probably should have kept some stuff I
dumpstered but I'm not losing any sleep over it. I did my kids a
favor, they'll dumpster everything which is left anyway when I croak
so I've saved them some of that chore

.. . like my Quaker school first grade teacher admonished "Know thyself
Master Brian!". Yeah, I do know myself, I'm patterned, I'm a
compulsive pack rat. That's why I gotta be a hardass and not go back
to collecting nice old radios else I'll wind up right back where I
was.

It beats collecting Hummel figurines.

Don't even bring up Hummels David . . the ex is a Hummel freak who has
a buddy who was the wife of a G.I. stationed in Germany back when the
Hummel craze was barely getting off the ground. Net result being that
the ex has some number of 25 gallon fibre barrels fulla the things
which she bought with pocket change back then. Gotta be worth big
bucks today. Many years later the property settlement was not pretty.
She and her idiot lawyer got to nit picking my assets so just to be
annoying I told de judge that I wanted to get into splitting up the
collection of Hummels. Which she "conveniently" forgot to list as one
of her assets of course. At which point my lawyer hissed in my ear,
"If you intend to get serious about splitting up a collection of #%X&#
Hummels go find another lawyer!".

Ahhh! They have a "William" variant. The Orion is available with a
built-in antenna tuner. I didn't get that model.

Unless it can impedance-match his TV rabbit ears it wouldn't do much
for him. Maybe when he wises up and moves . .

Or does some planning so that he can put up a decent antenna with
adequate safeguards so his kids can't touch it.

Per a post of his around here a couple days ago he's trying to be
contrite and explained that his antenna problem involves some sort of
installation "restrictions". Maybe like CC&Rs or some such, he didn't
say . . .

"It's all about the chil'ren

Whatta weenie . .

Or like the guy across the street who bought a 40 inch flatsceen TV
"for the chullins" but they're not allowed to use it.

You actually disrupted the march around the breakfast table?

Yeah, how stupid was that?

At least you knew better than to disrupt a bunch of fathers listening to
a football game or a boxing match.

After I finally got my Novice ticket Pop found out real quick what I
was doing to his world so we agreed that I wouln't fire up the 80M
ARC-5 on Friday nites while the "Gillette Calvacade of Sports" fights
were on the boob tube. The problem I had with Mom ealier however did
not involve an "agreement".

That could have gotten a whole lot
more confrontational. Zed Zainoon W8ENJ, a Lebanese-American screwed up
the TV reception at a Moundsville bar close to his home back in the
early '50s with his Collins KW-1 AM KW. There was very nearly a
lynching.

Heeee! Precious moments in ham radio.

Let's just say
that the tuning wasn't at all critical. Something about decrement, heh
heh.

Welp the good news was that nobody needed cascaded INRAD filters to
find us . . ?

Nope. I just adjusting the gap on the doorbell buzzer for maximum noise
on the radio.

Yessir: Like tuning for max output with an NE-2 or a flourecent tube.
To hell with this anal-retentive SWR nonsense. Who invented this BS
anyway??

Dave K8MN

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