anyone get anything at kutztown?

[AdamAnt316]

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