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My brother owned an old crapped out Chevrolet car that was all worn out
when he bought the car second hand.It's coming back to me now,he traded that car off for the radio.He got the best end of that deal.I remember the front leaf springs of that old car would sometimes get out of wack and he would be outside wrenching on that front suspension system of that old car and cussin.My dad bought an old second hand Doodlebug motorscooter for twenty five dollars for me to ride around on around the neighborhood.My sisters rode that motorscooter more than I ever did. cuhulin |
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In article .com,
"Joe Analssandrini" wrote: Dear Lenny, This is indeed a "fun" topic and I find all the comments posted thus far to be very interesting and enjoyable to read. Therefore, I hope that you and everyone ese here, will take my comments in the spirit in which they're meant. Back when I was in high school (three weeks after they had invented fire!?!) there were several of us who got involved in shortwave listening. One fellow had a National SW-54 (as I remember), another had a Hammarlund HQ-100, another had a Blaupunkt, another had a Grundig, one particularly wealthy fellow had a Zenith Trans-Oceanic (a tube model), and I, being the "poorest," had an old Philco console. (But I had the best antenna and ground!) Later, after high school, I was able to save up enough money to buy a Lafayette HE-10, a Lafayette HE-11 speaker, and a pair of Clevite Brush BA-200 headphones. Total price was $102.60 (and NO sales tax at the time!). I still have them all and they are still in superb condition - they work as well as they did when new. (I had the receiver last aligned and tested about fifteen years ago. The technician stated at the time that, while he made some adjustments, they were all very minor and the internals were really in very fine shape.) I used that set as my main receiver up until 2000 when I got a Grundig Satellit 800. In 2004 I purchased my AOR AR7030 Plus, which was customized by the factory. I have to tell you that, though I still "trot out" the Lafayette once or twice a year (for old-times' sake) and though I never had a great deal of experience with most of the better tube shortwave sets (I did have an acquaintance later on who owned a Hammarlund HQ-180A which I listened to quite a bit until he moved away), there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY I would ever go back to those tube sets for daily use. For collection purposes, for impressive "looks," and for "cachet," they can't be beat. But NONE of them can even approach the performance of my AR7030 Plus and that includes sound quality. I run my AOR through my Hafler DH-101 Preamplifier and my Hafler DH-200 Power Amplifier into my Klipschorn speakers and, as the man said, "you ain't heard nothing yet!" Even with my cheap ($29.95) Radio Shack RCA-labeled external speaker, which I use when listening to news or talk programs, the sound is far better and far more intelligible than that of my Lafayette or any other tube radio I have ever heard. I hate to "bust" anybody's bubble, and please note that I have the greatest respect for others' serious opinions which may differ from mine, but it is my firm opinion that today's shortwave receivers are far, far better than anything I could have bought, regardless of price, back in 1958. They're far more reliable too. You younger guys can't remember a time when the radio/tv repairman was like a member of the family. He came to your house more often than your favorite uncle! I often wish that I could have a "time machine" and take one of today's radios back to that young kid who was just starting out in shortwave back in 1958. He'd have been absolutely astounded! But I do agree with those who state that those radios looked better than today's and their tuning knobs, heavily fly-weighted, were far more pleasurable to use than todays "lightweights." However, nostalgia aside, they just don't perform like today's! Well, I guess this makes me an old timer as I used to be that TV repairman in the early 80's. Tube sets, solid state and hybrids of the two were the fare of the day. How to you make the connection from 7030+ to the stereo amplifiers? Did you make a cable to the auxiliary jack and use the line outs, the loud speaker jack or the headphone jack? Have you experimented with all these outputs and found the line outs to be the best? -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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Joe Analssandrini wrote:
Back when I was in high school (three weeks after they had invented fire!?!) Aw, man, they didn't have fire until I was in eighth grade. And since we had the kind of global warming back then that they have now, it was always too cold to learn anything in school. We thought about electing a student to burn for heat, but we couldn't burn him because we didn't know what burning was. -- If John McCain gets the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination, my vote for President will be a write-in for Jiang Zemin. |
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Joe Analssandrini wrote:
They're far more reliable too. You younger guys can't remember a time when the radio/tv repairman was like a member of the family. He came to your house more often than your favorite uncle! Being older, I started being the TV serviceman in 1967. Funny, my family after that time was incredibly much bigger than it was before. -- If John McCain gets the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination, my vote for President will be a write-in for Jiang Zemin. |
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Telamon wrote:
Well, I guess this makes me an old timer as I used to be that TV repairman in the early 80's. Tube sets, solid state and hybrids of the two were the fare of the day. Ah, yer still a kid. I started full-time in 1967. Transistors were for UHF tuners. -- If John McCain gets the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination, my vote for President will be a write-in for Jiang Zemin. |
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Looks like some great radios.Too bad he is having some tax problems.
cuhulin |
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