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Originally Posted by Kamakiri
I'm starting to scare myself because I'm finding myself drooling over boat anchors and test equipment lately  |
Come to the dark side...we have cookies...
(or, at least, really heavy radios)
Seriously, though, boatanchor radios are fun. Pretty sure I own at least a dozen of them, though some couldn't 'anchor' anything bigger than a small canoe. My very first tube radio was a Hallicrafters S-118, which was given to me by a relative. It was drift-prone, but did a decent job of picking up signals from around the world (once I figured out how to set up a decent antenna, anyway). Searching the internet for info on it brought me to Phil Nelson's site, which is when the bug really bit, and I soon started collecting tube radios in earnest.
Then, while in high school, I discovered that the electronics shop had both an R-390A and R-392 stored in the back room, though they wouldn't let me so much as power them up. After I graduated, I visited the shop from time to time, during which I found out that they were planning to move the shop to a different part of the building. Finally, during one of my visits, my old instructor asked me "Hey Adam, do you want these old radios?"
I couldn't haul them to my car fast enough. It's been all downhill from there, in one way or another...
-Adam KB1YTN