Good Morning and thank you. I'll save my money then and use it for something that I will probably use more daily or use when I go on trips with the FT710.Originally Posted by N8YX
The rig in question is Kenwood R-5000. It is in excellent shape and I've always wanted one but, it is a bit long in the tooth as they say. Part me wants to take it for a spin and see what it can do and then there's the part that says it's 30 years old and over the last 30 years I should have already learned my lesson with 30 year olds (lol).
Not forgetting my nostalgic bent, when I was a kid everything was old including the National NC-33 I had acquired from a friend's preacher that was into 2m ham radio and the local groups. I think it was gifted to me because I read an article in Boy's Life magazine about a scout that built a shortwave radio out of an old TV and people were like, yeah, you might not want to do that. Free shock therapy was apparently out of the question and old tube sets were everywhere to be found. Just like today, microwaves are everywhere to be found but please don't take them apart like that one couple did.
They were found dead in their garage after using a microwave oven to build a device that would burn lightning patterns into wood for a popular hobby 10 years ago. Apparently when they powered it up, it electrocuted both of them immediately.
OK, this says it's from 2022 but it's been going on for a while. It's much more common than I first thought.
https://www.wpr.org/justice/fractal-...unty-wisconsinAt least 33 people have died as a result of fractal burning, according to the American Association of Woodturners, which has sought to educate people about the extraordinarily high risks of the practice. Those who’ve died include new hobbyists and experienced woodworkers alike, and even in one case “an electrician with many years of experience working with electricity,” according to the AAW’s website.
Phil McDonald, executive director of the AAW, said the organization adopted a strong recommendation against fractal burning beginning in 2017 after seeing a “proliferation” of social media tutorials instructing people on how to use “extremely high-voltage transformers to create their own home-based fractal burning systems.”
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