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On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:04:46 -0600, "Brian Hill"
wrote: "Frank Dresser" wrote in message Things have been worse. How could the new wave sensitive RRS reader survive the daily floods of truely offensive crossposted material we were subject to just a year ago? It bog -- well, you know Frank Dresser I feel sorry for someone that's so hyper sensitive that they let a forum like this get them so upset. It must be tuff for em in the real world. The fact is...I spend more time laughing at this newsgroup than I do at Comedy Central.... It cracks me up! Tracy |
"Brian Hill" wrote in message ... I feel sorry for someone that's so hyper sensitive that they let a forum like this get them so upset. It must be tuff for em in the real world. Unless the captain is trolling. In case he is serious, I'll suggest there's very little on usenet which ought to be taken either personally or seriously. Frank Dresser |
"Tracy Fort" wrote in message ... On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:04:46 -0600, "Brian Hill" wrote: "Frank Dresser" wrote in message Things have been worse. How could the new wave sensitive RRS reader survive the daily floods of truely offensive crossposted material we were subject to just a year ago? It bog -- well, you know Frank Dresser I feel sorry for someone that's so hyper sensitive that they let a forum like this get them so upset. It must be tuff for em in the real world. The fact is...I spend more time laughing at this newsgroup than I do at Comedy Central.... It cracks me up! Tracy I know its great. 1.you can debate any topic hear or 2. ask a technical question and get several expert opinions on any radio topic 3. Argue with idiots like Melvin Creep and walk away feeling great 4. Just sit back and watch Steve and MB go at it which BTW is better than almost anything on TV. Its a great place full of humanity. |
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"Brian Hill" wrote: Dan you brute. by the way how's that Scott Imperial Allwave. Those are nice looking sets. I got a real nice 1937 Zenith shutter dial console that sound great. It's doing great, considering it's almost 70 years old. I had it electrically restored (capped and such) and the cabinet re-finished about 10 years ago. At the time, it was not working. I was offered $800 for it as it was by the guy who restored it. I politely declined. The real kicker is I paid - wait for it - $5 for it at a neighborhood garage sale in 1970 or thereabouts. I pulled it home in a red wagon, and it worked at the time! I had no idea how rare they are, I just thought it was cool. I saw one go for over $5000 on eBay last year. It works really well, with great sound. The chrome is pretty good but not perfect. No rust anywhere. I have a complete set of spare tubes also, bought 2 or 3 at a time over the years. Dan Drake R8, Grundig Satellit 650 Radio Shack DX-440, Grundig YB400 Tecsun PL-230 (YB550PE), Kaito KA1102 Hallicraters S-120 (1962) Zenith black dial 5 tube Tombstone (1936) E. H. Scott 23 tube Imperial Allwave in Tasman cabinet (1935) |
"Dan" wrote in message ... In article , "Brian Hill" wrote: Dan you brute. by the way how's that Scott Imperial Allwave. Those are nice looking sets. I got a real nice 1937 Zenith shutter dial console that sound great. It's doing great, considering it's almost 70 years old. I had it electrically restored (capped and such) and the cabinet re-finished about 10 years ago. At the time, it was not working. I was offered $800 for it as it was by the guy who restored it. I politely declined. The real kicker is I paid - wait for it - $5 for it at a neighborhood garage sale in 1970 or thereabouts. I pulled it home in a red wagon, and it worked at the time! I had no idea how rare they are, I just thought it was cool. I saw one go for over $5000 on eBay last year. It works really well, with great sound. The chrome is pretty good but not perfect. No rust anywhere. I have a complete set of spare tubes also, bought 2 or 3 at a time over the years. Dan $5!! Wow! what a find. Yea don't let her go. Chances are,You'll never replace it, -- 73 Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. Brian's Radio Universe http://webpages.charter.net/brianehill/ |
Frank Dresser wrote: All the usual flamers here have proven themselves of making a positive contribution. If you want a newsgroup to control, why don't you form your own moderated usenet group or yahoo group? If you control the group, you could kick out people all by yourself. You wouldn't even have to say "Please" and "Thank You" to some faceless administrator. I don't put earplugs in my ear when the neighbors stereo is too loud, I call the police. YUP, ask JJ about getting your own group then you can kick us out like JJ did. Burr Your a Captain of what |
Captain of what?
Burr the captain wrote: I must say I am quite shocked at how fast this went down to sewer level. I said nothing that called for the level of the insults that I received and I see more clearly how vile some of the people in this group are. |
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"Brian Hill" wrote: $5!! Wow! what a find. Yea don't let her go. Chances are,You'll never replace it, I couldn't *afford* to replace it. I'll certainly never find another one for $5! At the time I bought it, it was your typical family selling off old stuff from grandparents, I assume. Neither of us had any idea what it was. Hell, I was a teenager at the time. I just thought that a working radio that was as big as a TV set was cool. I was already interested in radios, and had a few cheap Sears transistor sets. I took some wire, connected it to the antenna connection on radio and tied the other end to a rock. Then I tossed the rock on the roof of our house. I couldn't believe the reception! It wasn't until much later that I found out what it was, and realized it's value. By that time (early 90s), it had stopped working and I was wondering what to do with it. One day I was in a local "antique mall" - you know the kind, a big building with a bunch of individual "stores" which are really just little booths. I turned a corner and could not believe what I was looking at. A booth run by 2 guys that was wall to wall antique radios. They ran a restoring business. One guy did the electronics, the other did the cabinet work. We got to talking and I told them what I had. I could see that they were salivating at the chance to restore a Scott! I also bought a radio from them. The Zenith tombstone. It's a pretty typical 5 tube set. I think it's a 5S127. Nice big round black dial, and it also sounds good. Of course it had been restored by them, and is in outstanding condition. It works fine for MW and the bigger SW broadcasters (BBC, VOR, etc.) but it's no DX radio. The Scott, OTOH, pulls in everything. Dan Drake R8, Grundig Satellit 650 Radio Shack DX-440, Grundig YB400 Tecsun PL-230 (YB550PE), Kaito KA1102 Hallicraters S-120 (1962) Zenith black dial 5 tube Tombstone (1936) E. H. Scott 23 tube Imperial Allwave in Tasman cabinet (1935) |
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