Hi.

I like to follow those guys around and catch their cast-offs.

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 12:58 PM 4/25/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>lol, I know a guy like that, every couple months, out with the old =
>radio, in with the new. I wish I could afford to do that. Must be fun =
>but I have 2 right now, 1 primary and 1 go kit which is my backup in the =
>house and that's about it for me for right now.
>   ----- Original Message -----=20
>   From: Ham Steve=20
>   To: [log in to unmask]
>   Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:16 PM
>   Subject: Re: My 40th Ham Radio Anniversary
>
>
>   Wow, Walt.  Those KLM beams were a bear to assemble, though.  A =
>million=20
>   little parts, I think.
>
>   There is a guy in our group who has owned a ton of radios.  I think =
>he's had=20
>   thirteen Icom 746's, for example.  I was telling them today I can =
>count the=20
>   number of HF rigs I've owned on two hands.
>
>   I started with the Heath GR-91 receiver and a DX-35 65-waqtt crystal=20
>   controlled rig.  I upgraded the receiver to a NC-300, which I kept for =
>
>   fifteen years.
>
>   When I got my Conditional, I got a Viking Invader which ran about 200 =
>watts=20
>   PEP and 150 on CW, 50 on AM with 6146 finals.
>
>   After five years, I got my Hallicrafters SR-400A and in 1976 I got a =
>TS-820,=20
>   which was my fourth transmitter.
>
>   In 1981 when I moved out West, I got a TS-830.  Then, in 1986, I =
>traded both=20
>   of them in for an IC-751A, which I still have.  I bought another =
>TS-820S in=20
>   1989 as a backup.  Then, I bought a TS-2000, which is my current rig.  =
>I=20
>   think I still have a couple fingers left, so a dream rig would be a =
>756PRO=20
>   III.
>
>   Steve, K8SP=20

Louis Kim Kline
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