gudmundur wrote:


Sadly, I have resorted to buying up everything I think I may ever want or
need for the next 15 years of my experimenter life at local hamfests. Not
only are experimenter parts that are big enough to see becoming harder to find,
but people who know what to do with the parts are about as rare as monkeypox.

I rarely mention it, but I have some parts listed on my website. The
link is above, in the "Organization" line.

Now I will go back to my cave, and remember all the cool things I showed
my blue shirts how to build using just the stuff we found while pillaging
the dumpsters on the Navy base. Damn, we had some cool stuff!

I nearly got myself court marshaled at Ft Greely, Ak. for grabbing
junk TV sets on their way to the base landfill to keep the base's AFRTS
TV and Radio stations on the air.

You know the drill. Zero downtime, almost everything is depot level,
or requires a traveling engineer to fly from Sacramento to patch it, and
the money comes out of your budget. I was tired of being off, more than
on the air, the poor signal Quality, and the constant equipment
failures, so I rebuilt the entire TV station and half the radio station
while I was there. I even used parts from a TV set to replace the tuner
in the old Off Air Demodulator. No way I was going to wait two years for
RCA to dig up the part and spend over $2000 for a 29 dollar
Sarkes-Tarzan TV tuner.

Just call me Chief.

Me too (Chief Engineer) ;-)


--
I say, the boy is so stupid that he tried to make a back up copy of his
hard drive on the Xerox machine! (F. Leghorn)

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida