Did you fill them in on the errors?
On Aug 4, 2014 4:38 PM, "Peter Klein" <pklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Cute. Some of those antique malls are fun (although the ones that show
> > stuff from my childhood as "antiques" are really annoying...)
>
> Paul: Yeah, tell me about it!!
>
> > I found an ex-Western Union Vibroplex bug at one for cheap - that was
> > exciting, since I love antique telegraph keys.
>
> You love the Tillamook (Oregon) Air Museum, which I visited last week.
> They had some WWII-era Hallicrafters radios in relatively good shape on
> exhibit. Behind glass and with mixed light sources, but I did my best:
>
> Super Skyrider receiver with a paper-tape based Morse keyer. There were
> no straight keys or bugs on display.
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/tillamookair/P7290058.jpg.html>
>
> Sky Buddy receiver mislabled as a transmitter and receiver, with a mic
> plugged into the headphones jack. :-) Below are some single-band Navy
> receivers and their "twin" transmitters. I actually used a transmitter
> like this for a while, think it was called an ARC-5.
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/tillamookair/P7290059.jpg.html>
>
> S-22 on left, Navy receiver mislabeled as a "rectifier power unit" on
> right, a tester and a VLF receiver on the floor
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/tillamookair/P7290088.jpg.html>
>
> I remember these "boat anchor" radios well. When I got my ham license as
> a teenager in late 1968, many of us had them. WWII surplus stuff was
> relatively cheap and worked well if you could calibrate your dial and cope
> with the drift, not to mention be able to lift them on and off your desk.
> You could always tell the guys who keyed with "bugs" by their "Lake Erie
> swing"--long dashes followed by very fast dots, and sometimes one or two
> too many. :-) The ones who were really good at it were amazing in the same
> way that a virtuoso musician is amazing.
>
> --Peter (aka KD7MW in another plane of existence...)
>
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