Unbuilt Kit Mania

[Dan Ferguson]

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At 02/11/2001 17:46 , Brian Carling wrote:
>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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