Unbuilt Kit Mania

[KD2E]

Brian... Yes, I've built radio kits on many things like cake tins. (Worse
with the boy scouts)
My point was that a company offering kits built on such platforms will not
be the one to replace Heathkit.
Nice looking finished cabinets (like Heath) with today's technology will.
...Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Carling" <bcarling at CFL.RR.COM>
To: <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: Unbuilt Kit Mania


> On 11 Feb 2001, at 11:16, KD2E wrote:
>
> > a company making tube-type tranmitter (not sure of receiver)
> > but
> > they are built on cake tins on something. Who would want that in there
> > shack??
>
> David, a lot of us enjoy experimenting with such rigs. Apparently you have
not heard
> of the GLOWBUGS e-mail list which has hundreds of guys on it who enjoy
> building tube rigs on everything from breadboards, to cake pans and
aluminum
> chasses to mailboxes!
>
> Many hams built their first transmitter on a cake tin. The power supply to
my first
> receiver was homebrewed by me on a cake tin and I was darn proud of it in
my
> shack... thank you!
>
> You can buy an unbuilt kit, but you can't buy the ability to design and
build from the
> junque box... a pleasure enjoyed by fewer hams these days, but a pleasure
> nonetheless!
>
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