In article , Dave Heil
writes:

N2EY wrote:

In article , Dave Heil
writes:

N2EY wrote:

In article ,

(Len Over 21) writes:

In article , Leo

writes:

On 29 Sep 2004 18:47:50 GMT, (Len Over 21) wrote:

In article ,

(N2EY) writes:

Tsk. You've yet to explain that "Southgate Type 7." [other than
the
unusual name] Does it appear in ham literature? In Nobel
archives?

Here's a picture, and some technical details...

http://hometown.aol.com/n2ey/myhomepage/

Neat collection

Thnak you, Len!

of recycled toob equipment..

The parts are recycled but the designs are new and unique.

It seems to bother our Leonard that vacuum tubes were used.

Does it? I don't see that, Dave. He wrote that is was a "neat collection".

Ah, Jim, if only I could regain such innocence...

What innocence?

If only I could keep it that neat all the time.

looks like "shacks" of
the 50s and 60s.

It seems to bother our Leonard that your equipment doesn't look like
stereo equipment.

Why should it? It's not stereo equipment. It's amateur radio equipment.

Naw, you just thought it was.

I know it is.

Len has already identified it as a kludge.

He's wrong, of course.

Picture is less than 2 years old.

Appears to be a giant collection of QSTs to the
right...

It seems to bother our Leonard that you have an extensive QST library.

I don't see that at all, Dave.

I know, but it is there.

Yes, the collection is there. They're not 'giant' QSTs, either...

Every issue since mid-1926, and some older ones. Also lots of other
radio
magazines, books, manuals, etc. The picture shows only a small part of
the
library.

(archives of the renowned historian no doubt). :-)

Who would that be?

I think he means you, Jim. Our Leonard seems to be bothered that you
have the information contained in those magazines. It gives you unfair
advantage over him.

??

The entire run of QST is available on CD-ROM, so the info is available to
anyone willing to spend the $$. (I spent a lot less on the paper mags, but
they
take up more space and it's taken me decades to build up the collection).

Len isn't going out to see his pals at the local HRO store to buy QST on
CD-ROM. He certainly isn't going to go round up the actual magazines.

Then his ignorance is his own choice.

I'm sure it'll come as no surprise to Leonard that my funeral pyre will
be fueled with those magazines.

Please don't! Future generations will be deprived of those magazines if you
burn them. Much of my collection was saved from destruction by hams who
would
not let them go to the dump or incinerator. Same for the parts.

You probably gathered that I had no real intention of doing so.

Yes - but I think Len would love it if those old QSTs were burned...

I know an amateur (not me) who was *given* a near-complete collection of
QST by
an elderly ham who knew he would soon be SK. He had saved every issue from
the
post WW1 reawakening to the prsent day. He had many duplicates, too. It
took 3
trips in a Citation to move them all.

Jack Fulmer, then W4HAV (now W4YF) was Vice President of Cincinnati
Milacron lived near me in Fort Thomas, Kentucky early in '68. He had a
complete run of QST but his late Uncle was also a ham and left Jack his
magazine. Jack gave me the complete run of 1934-1958. That formed the
core of my QST collection.

Cool!

Mine started out in 1968 with my subscription. Got some 50s and 60s copies when
a local radio club got rid of their small library. Then various hamfests and
such. The ham who got the collection detailed above had some duplicates and
gave them to me. A few copies even came from eBay. Recently, a local ham gave
me his old library, which was in better shape than some of mine. Etc.

Along the way I accumulated a lot of dupes, which were then sold off. All part
of the collecting game.

Jack was the guy, who with Jean Shepherd

K2ORS

started the short-lived first VW dealership in the Cincinnati area a few
years after the war.

That one belongs in the "Radio Stories" thread.

73 de Jim, N2EY

"6SJ7GT"