I have been reorganizing my home shop, and you can see the results
he

http://plymouthcolony.net/starcity/r...s/compact.html

It is overkill for antique radio work, but much of the instrumentation
is used for repairing other instruments (including some of the ones
seen in the photos), and I sometimes have to bring home equipment from
radio stations where I am contract engineer if I lack the means to
make repairs at the client's location.

Dale H. Cook, GR / HP Collector, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
http://plymouthcolony.net/starcity/radios/

Thank You for sharing your photo's with us.

Unfortunately this type of technology is probably going to die with you, since the younger generation has not learned how to do this type of work and has no desire to restore vintage radios and equipment.

The most intriguing thing to me is how you keep all this equipment operational and calibrated.

EICO was a great company, we still use some of that equipment at my house, but being in kit form, it was reliant upon the skill-set of the builder.

Some of that stuff I have not seen in many years....

On Sat, 17 May 2014 14:57:21 +0100, Channel Jumper wrote:


Unfortunately this type of technology is probably going to die with you,
since the younger generation has not learned how to do this type of work
and has no desire to restore vintage radios and equipment.

Not true. Take a look at the Antique Radio Forums, http://
www.antiqueradios.com/forums/index.php. There are lots of beginners
there, many of them in their 30s, 20s, and even teens. There may not be
as many people interested as there are now, but it certainly isn't going
to die.

--
Jim Mueller

To get my real email address, replace wrongname with dadoheadman.
Then replace nospam with fastmail. Lastly, replace com with us.

Jim Mueller wrote:
On Sat, 17 May 2014 14:57:21 +0100, Channel Jumper wrote:


Unfortunately this type of technology is probably going to die with you,
since the younger generation has not learned how to do this type of work
and has no desire to restore vintage radios and equipment.

Not true. Take a look at the Antique Radio Forums, http://
www.antiqueradios.com/forums/index.php. There are lots of beginners
there, many of them in their 30s, 20s, and even teens. There may not be
as many people interested as there are now, but it certainly isn't going
to die.

There will always be an interest in "old" stuff, everything from vintage
radios to black powder muzzle loaders to weaving cloth on a home made wood
loom.

And given the Internet, such is easier than ever.

Making your own wood screws (that is screws made of wood); not a problem to
find the tools to do it on the Internet.



--
Jim Pennino

Sorry, but I would have to disagree.
I gave away a lot of that stuff 25 years ago..
At the hamfests - no one even wants to bother with it anymore.
The core people that did that kind of stuff is either dying or dead in my area of the country.
One of the last collectors I remember was a guy that wrote articles in QST Magazine - and he is either sick or dead, his column was dropped suddenly a couple of months ago.

These kids today are into computers and things that are high tech..
They don't want to be bothered listening to AM radios or watching black n white movies.

Even the collector car market has taken a sudden drop in attendance due to the fact that people do not have money anymore the way they did 10 or 20 years ago and the kids are not interested in cars anymore.
Some kids don't even want to learn how to drive...

The world is changing..

I have a old Tube Knight Kit C-560 CB radio that had a tuneable VFO that was crystal controlled that made an excellent QRP rig.
When the local ham radio club had a oldies night and one guy brought his tube tester I caught so much grief from the club members that were cruel with their comments because it was a CB radio that I took it home and never did get the thing to run.

Quad County Amateur Radio club is full of jackk off's.. A bunch of dick's...

Unless it says ICOM on it - it isn't any good to those kinds of people.

I'm probably the only one smart enough to know that ICOM stuff is JUNK!

Channel Jumper wrote:

;819315 Wrote:
Jim Mueller wrote:-
On Sat, 17 May 2014 14:57:21 +0100, Channel Jumper wrote:

-
Unfortunately this type of technology is probably going to die with
you,
since the younger generation has not learned how to do this type of
work
and has no desire to restore vintage radios and equipment.
-
Not true. Take a look at the Antique Radio Forums, http://
www.antiqueradios.com/forums/index.php. There are lots of beginners
there, many of them in their 30s, 20s, and even teens. There may not
be
as many people interested as there are now, but it certainly isn't
going
to die.-

There will always be an interest in "old" stuff, everything from
vintage
radios to black powder muzzle loaders to weaving cloth on a home made
wood
loom.

And given the Internet, such is easier than ever.

Making your own wood screws (that is screws made of wood); not a problem
to
find the tools to do it on the Internet.



--
Jim Pennino

Sorry, but I would have to disagree.

With what part?

I gave away a lot of that stuff 25 years ago..

So what?

I just sold a bunch of scrap lead for $200 to a guy that casts his own
balls for shooting muzzle loading rifles in reactments while wearing
buckskins.

snip irrelevant babble

The world is changing..

The world has been changing for 4.5 billion years.

snip remaining babble


--
Jim Pennino

On Sun, 18 May 2014 21:45:03 +0000, jimp wrote:

Channel Jumper wrote:

;819315 Wrote:
Jim Mueller wrote:-
On Sat, 17 May 2014 14:57:21 +0100, Channel Jumper wrote:

-
Unfortunately this type of technology is probably going to die with
you,
since the younger generation has not learned how to do this type of
work and has no desire to restore vintage radios and equipment.
-
Not true. Take a look at the Antique Radio Forums, http://
www.antiqueradios.com/forums/index.php. There are lots of beginners
there, many of them in their 30s, 20s, and even teens. There may not
be as many people interested as there are now, but it certainly isn't
going to die.-

There will always be an interest in "old" stuff, everything from
vintage radios to black powder muzzle loaders to weaving cloth on a
home made wood loom.

And given the Internet, such is easier than ever.

Making your own wood screws (that is screws made of wood); not a
problem to find the tools to do it on the Internet.



--
Jim Pennino

Sorry, but I would have to disagree.

With what part?

I gave away a lot of that stuff 25 years ago..

So what?

I just sold a bunch of scrap lead for $200 to a guy that casts his own
balls for shooting muzzle loading rifles in reactments while wearing
buckskins.

snip irrelevant babble

The world is changing..

The world has been changing for 4.5 billion years.

snip remaining babble

The world certainly is changing and apparently you aren't keeping up.
You gave away your stuff 25 years ago but have you been to a hamfest
recently? In the last 2 years prices for old stuff have gone WAY up.

Hams have been down on anything CB since the FCC took away the 11m ham
band.

--
Jim Mueller

To get my real email address, replace wrongname with dadoheadman.
Then replace nospam with fastmail. Lastly, replace com with us.

On Friday, May 16, 2014 4:03:06 PM UTC-4, Dale H. Cook wrote:
I have been reorganizing my home shop, and you can see the results

he



http://plymouthcolony.net/starcity/r...s/compact.html



It is overkill for antique radio work, but much of the instrumentation

is used for repairing other instruments (including some of the ones

seen in the photos), and I sometimes have to bring home equipment from

radio stations where I am contract engineer if I lack the means to

make repairs at the client's location.



Dale H. Cook, GR / HP Collector, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA

http://plymouthcolony.net/starcity/radios/

Channel Jumper, Just ignore the so called purists that shun CBs. Most started on CB! I got news, that are a lot more CBs in the world than Ham radios. Their money spends just fine Every truck, delivery van, etc in the world has a CB. Millions of them. Being a retired old crumudgeon, I repair CBs for a bit of extra cash. I could care less about their habits. They are not on HF anyway. Mostly I fix truck stop mods (they are constantly breaking their radios). There is a need for short range communication. How many of these "purists" don't take something that will monitor 19 on a road trip? If you don't help CBers, where are you gonna get new hams in the future? We are the Magi you know. Just show a young CBer how to key up an HT and bring up a repeater and carry on a QSO with full quieting 100 miles away. If you don't take their money, God won't love you! HEHEHE!

73 AE4YW Mitch

On 10/12/2014 10:58 AM, HM Dickson wrote:
On Friday, May 16, 2014 4:03:06 PM UTC-4, Dale H. Cook wrote:
I have been reorganizing my home shop, and you can see the results

he



http://plymouthcolony.net/starcity/r...s/compact.html



It is overkill for antique radio work, but much of the instrumentation

is used for repairing other instruments (including some of the ones

seen in the photos), and I sometimes have to bring home equipment from

radio stations where I am contract engineer if I lack the means to

make repairs at the client's location.



Dale H. Cook, GR / HP Collector, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA

http://plymouthcolony.net/starcity/radios/

Channel Jumper, Just ignore the so called purists that shun CBs. Most started on CB! I got news, that are a lot more CBs in the world than Ham radios. Their money spends just fine Every truck, delivery van, etc in the world has a CB. Millions of them. Being a retired old crumudgeon, I repair CBs for a bit of extra cash. I could care less about their habits. They are not on HF anyway. Mostly I fix truck stop mods (they are constantly breaking their radios). There is a need for short range communication. How many of these "purists" don't take something that will monitor 19 on a road trip? If you don't help CBers, where are you gonna get new hams in the future? We are the Magi you know. Just show a young CBer how to key up an HT and bring up a repeater and carry on a QSO with full quieting 100 miles away. If you don't take their money, God won't love you! HEHEHE!

73 AE4YW Mitch


You obviously haven't followed this newsgroup - but that's obvious. We
occasionally get people responding to old posts, and they always come
from Google Groups.

Just FYI, Channel Jumper is a well-known troll in this newsgroup.
That's one reason he won't use his real name or a call sign. He's not
even a ham.

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