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W5GA
08-21-2011, 08:38 PM
You can't find some particular boat anchor that you've had your heart set on for the last 25 years, here's why.
http://www.qrz.com/db/w9evt

That's about the most incredible collection I've ever seen!
N8YX
08-21-2011, 08:49 PM
You can't find some particular boat anchor that you've had your heart set on for the last 25 years, here's why.
http://www.qrz.com/db/w9evt

That's about the most incredible collection I've ever seen!
"Wait until they get a load of me"... ;)
KG4CGC
08-21-2011, 09:00 PM
Yep. Nice collection. I can only use one at a time though. Call me simple minded.
K7SGJ
08-21-2011, 09:06 PM
Simple minded.
VE7DCW
08-21-2011, 09:19 PM
"Wait until they get a load of me"... ;)

Another famous Jack Nicholson quote! :agree:
KG4CGC
08-21-2011, 09:22 PM
Simple minded.These are not the droids you're looking for.
W3MPS
08-22-2011, 07:54 AM
Nice collection. Although all I can think is, "Lots and lots of knobs!"
W3WN
08-22-2011, 10:59 AM
You can't find some particular boat anchor that you've had your heart set on for the last 25 years, here's why.
http://www.qrz.com/db/w9evt

That's about the most incredible collection I've ever seen!Holy Guacamole, Batman!
W2NAP
08-22-2011, 11:17 AM
damn that would be nice to have
kb2vxa
08-22-2011, 12:40 PM
Bbbbbut how much is too much? Yeah yeah, I know...
KK4AMI
08-22-2011, 01:43 PM
My mother was born at the time and in the same city as he was. Damn those Russians for chasing all the Germans outta Danzig. He could have been my father and look what I could'a inherited. It could have been all mine, mine, ha,ha,ha,ha !!!!
W3WN
08-22-2011, 01:49 PM
My mother was born at the time and in the same city as he was. Damn those Russians for chasing all the Germans outta Danzig. He could have been my father and look what I could'a inherited. It could have been all mine, mine, ha,ha,ha,ha !!!!Yeah, but then you'd have a certain left coast arachnaphobic constantly trying to trade you packs of ramen noodles for an SX-88.
N8YX
08-22-2011, 02:30 PM
Yeah, but then you'd have a certain left coast arachnaphobic constantly trying to trade you packs of ramen noodles for an SX-88.

Another one was recently offered on eBay. Undoubtedly snagged by Rat Bastards.
W3WN
08-22-2011, 02:32 PM
Another one was recently offered on eBay. Undoubtedly snagged by Rat Bastards.Not yet.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hallicrafters-SX-88-VINTAGE-RECEIVER-/300590899303?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item45fc9d2067

At the very reasonable buy-it-now price of ONLY $6400.

Right.
NQ6U
08-22-2011, 02:58 PM
At the very reasonable buy-it-now price of ONLY $6400.

For Fifties-era technology. I can think of a lot better radios into which to sink that much money.
KG4CGC
08-22-2011, 03:12 PM
$6.4K is a steal. They have been going for almost twice that much.
N8YX
08-22-2011, 04:25 PM
For Fifties-era technology. I can think of a lot better radios into which to sink that much money.
75S-3C +32S-3A + KWM-2A + 312-B5 + 62S-1 + 51S-1 would do it for me.
koØm
08-22-2011, 10:07 PM
DAYUM!

So, the "farm thing", what was that, a Ham Radio Bed-n-breakfast? I wonder how much per night?
K7SGJ
08-22-2011, 10:40 PM
So far it doesn't cost anything. But it's a little like the Hotel California. Instead of checking out, you slowly QSB to S-0, go QRT, then SK to become a hank at QRZ to spend eternity trying to become a minion that is more equal than most.

Talk about HELL.
KG4CGC
08-22-2011, 10:54 PM
So far it doesn't cost anything. But it's a little like the Hotel California. Instead of checking out, you slowly QSB to S-0, go QRT, then SK to become a hank at QRZ to spend eternity trying to become a minion that is more equal than most.

Talk about HELL.
Post of the day!
W1GUH
08-23-2011, 07:52 AM
There's no cure for BA collecting. Once you get the bug, it's there for life.
NQ6U
08-23-2011, 08:00 AM
There's no cure for BA collecting. Once you get the bug, it's there for life.

And it seems to take on a life of it's own. Once people hear that you're interested in old equipment, they even start giving it to you. That's happened to me since I acquired my Drake twins.
W3WN
08-23-2011, 08:56 AM
For Fifties-era technology. I can think of a lot better radios into which to sink that much money.Well, as a reformed Hallicrafter collector... so can I.

But those, along with the DD1 Dual Diversity radio, are so rare, with so few remaining working examples, that the collectors have driven the price sky high.
W3WN
08-23-2011, 08:57 AM
So far it doesn't cost anything. But it's a little like the Hotel California. Instead of checking out, you slowly QSB to S-0, go QRT, then SK to become a hank at QRZ to spend eternity trying to become a minion that is more equal than most.

Talk about HELL.+ 3
W3WN
08-23-2011, 08:58 AM
And it seems to take on a life of it's own. Once people hear that you're interested in old equipment, they even start giving it to you. That's happened to me since I acquired my Drake twins.Oh? Well, I'm interested in old equipment...
W1GUH
08-23-2011, 11:08 AM
And it seems to take on a life of it's own. Once people hear that you're interested in old equipment, they even start giving it to you. That's happened to me since I acquired my Drake twins.

Uh-oh....don't know how to tactfully say this....

The fact that you got that Hallicrafters up and working so quickly and that you enthusiastically listened to a ballgame on it are both serious symptoms of the disease. You might be beyond the point of no return. The good news is the support of all your fellow sufferers of the disease.

Looks great! Enjoy! Hope you get the parts and the time to re-cap it before something bad happens.
kb2vxa
08-23-2011, 11:41 AM
"But it's a little like the Hotel California."
"There's no cure for BA collecting. Once you get the bug, it's there for life."

Now I understand what Joe WB6ACU had in mind.

And she said ’we are all just prisoners here, of our own device’
And in the master’s chambers,
They gathered for the feast
The stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can’t kill the beast...

...You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!
NQ6U
08-23-2011, 11:55 AM
Uh-oh....don't know how to tactfully say this....

The fact that you got that Hallicrafters up and working so quickly and that you enthusiastically listened to a ballgame on it are both serious symptoms of the disease. You might be beyond the point of no return. The good news is the support of all your fellow sufferers of the disease.

I'm afraid you're right. Next thing you know, I'll be looking for an SX-88 full of black widows.


Looks great! Enjoy! Hope you get the parts and the time to re-cap it before something bad happens.

Funny thing about that—I pulled the bottom panel off it to assess what might be needed and found that all the wax paper caps have already been replaced with shiny new mylar-dipped ones.
W1GUH
08-23-2011, 12:51 PM
"Funny thing about that—I pulled the bottom panel off it to assess what might be needed and found that all the wax paper caps have already been replaced with shiny new mylar-dipped ones. "

Outstanding!!

BTW...if you hear Vladimir Posner on Radio Moscow -- it's 1980 all over again.