Idea.....

[Paul K. Dean]

Popular Electronics ran a cartoon years ago that I still remember to this
day.  Two guys carrying what could well have been a Heath BA standing by a
fence obviously looking tired and sweaty.  Farmer, leaning on the fence
says, "Them Ham fellers.  Yeah, across that field and up that loooooooong
hill."

At 01:44 PM 5/23/01 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
>Last year, one of our high tech solid state whiz-bang rigs failed at the
>Novice/Tech station, so I put the SB-102 into service. It worked fine. But
>you make a good point. We tend to forget the bad part about the old stuff
>and just remember the good. It was a real pain lugging that stuff to FD and
>then cabling it up. There's something to be said for just plugging it in and
>getting going.
>
>Brian
>
>"Embrace the new, but cherish the old"
>
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>I'm sure old timers will remember all the "fun" that
>was to be had at Field Day running old multiplier-type (vs. heterodyne
>oscillator) rigs...the guys who lugged Johnson Viking II's and
>DX-100's...sheesh! Even 301-401 twins were a lot of cabling to set up.
>
>Certain stations that had the worst harmonics would get 'banned' during the
>hours the higher freqs were hot and the harmonics were wiping out other
>bands, and arguments ensued.
>
>I remember a guy who got a "Spirit of Field Day" award because his rig got
>dropped in a pond and he had a mild heart attack...
>
>BTW, my call is K3FD, when we were allowed to choose calls as
>Extra's...guess what my favorite contest was...
>
>Murray
>
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