JPhil
Huh?
Wow! A realtor freind of mine called last night and told me of a house where the old man died & the kids were offloading all his stuff and one asked in passing if she knew anybody into "old ham radios". She said, "Well, actually,yes I do..." and called me. I went over this morning and they gave me this 'stuff' rather than throw it in a dumpster....
One each National HRO (pre-war) & a National HRO 50T (post war) recievers with over a dozen tuning coils, plus a bunch of other miscellaneous related stuff--amps & accessories, etc. These are top of the line shortwave recievers, the preferred units of wartime users, including the Allied military, with knock-offs made by the Axis & Soviet powers. The classic shortwave radio recievers of their day.
Man are they cool!
Now I just have to figure out what to do with them--I ain't gonna e-bay them, I'll make them come to life again!
"Real radios glow in the dark".....
Just part of my rebellion against the internet computer age---anybody can clickety-click wvw.easyaspie.cum and get 20,000,000,000 instant responses, but it takes love & patience to search the ether for scratchy, fading voices from around the world......And when the 'grid' fails, whether from high winds, blizzards, sunspot storms or nuclear atmospheric detonations, amateur radio will still be there, saving your ass!!@!
I got no idea what an "ISP" is except that I remember a girl in second grade who had surgery to correct hers--she turned into a real looker as she grew older, & that scar on her lip was pretty exotic, erotic, & mysterious.....
