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KB2VXA > CARS 29.06.08 13:20l 39 Lines 1793 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: VE3WBZ > mostly radio
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From: KB2VXA@VK2TV.#MNC.NSW.AUS.OC
To : CARS@WW
Hi Peter and all,
Still nobody has commented on the time the pirates hijacked the BBC,
maybe they are too embarrassed to admit Auntie isn't bulletproof. (;->)
Yup, I thanked Andy and if you're curious just Google "Motorhead" and
you'll find out about Lemmy. Andy doesn't say much but he's a metal head
of long standing, make of that what you will. (;->)
I don't remember who made the Olds radios, probably Delco and they were
pretty darn good at least until the hybrids. Those had special tubes with
12V on the plates and the audio section was germanium. I still have a
germanium power transistor on my key chain and it still has the tooth
mark dent, long story of a dog in the dark but it was awfully big and I
didn't stick around to identify it. Next to it is a penny run over by the
JFK funeral train, more memories of a Pennsylvania GG-1. My DXing car
radio came out of a 1956 Buick, a Sonomatic; a big square box with an 8"
speaker in it. Yup, I had a number of antique radios but the work horses
were chassis pulled from console TVs and various other junkers waiting
for the truck out behind the local radio and TV shop. One of my childhood
dreams was realized for a short time, I ended up working in that shop but
within a couple of years locked the door for the last time when throw
aways from Japan shut the US industry down.
Funny how I've never seen a European car radio with everything from DC to
light on it, I would have loved one for DXing. Why the heck do European
cars come with American radios? Maybe because they're made here and Chevy
was made in Canada. (;->)
73 de Warren
Station powered by JCP&L atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
Message timed by NIST: 11:04 on 2008-Jun-29 GMT
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