JA Boatanchors? Wow...

[Bob Miller]

Harumph!  A 51S1 has one transistor in its design...Heh  Bob, KE6F

D.B. Cooper wrote:

> ai7r wrote:
>
> > Is this making anyone else feel old?
>
> Dave and gang,
>
> Hey!  I started feeling old when they started putting Collins and
> Halliscratchers and Drake, etc. on the boatanchors list.  I bought a lot of this
> stuff when it was "state of the Art."
>
> I, personally do not consider any JA radios to be boatanchors.  To be a
> boatanchor, it has to be military or 75A, 32V, SX28, NC303, Thunderbolt
> vintage.  A boatanchor is, to quote my 32V manual "portable at a mere 108
> pounds."  The modern radios (S-line, Hot Water rigs, Drakes, Eddystones, etc)
> are classic tube radios.  No solid state anywhere.  JA radios do not, IMHO,
> qualify.
>
> 73
>
> Paul WA6OKQ
>
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