Hm my first thought was, "What a great place to unload those carpet rolls in my trunk!" I know, I should stop binging The Sopranos.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Then there’s those that wear kilts.
That doesn’t add up. You collect old things.
Cobblestones or wooden driveway by any chance?
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At least we're done going on about these guys
I have a military R390A like the one below. It was a fun restoration. (I’ve had an old style long wire antenna and a G5RV dipole.)
There are far fewer AM stations on the air today than there used to be.
There was a broken 390 on my ship that I resurrected sitting off the coast of Beirut. It was a great receiver, used it for MARS calls after I got it back in shape.
The Doors of Perception simply became The Doors. Everyone wanted instant karma back then.
The military ordered a run during the gulf war. The new fangled solid state radios apparently didn’t work so well in the desert sand.
You need one of these to go with the R-390. Note-runs on 440VAC 3 phase.View attachment 4266311
Nice. I might have seen one of those at Fair Radio Sales.
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Croz says Jim Morrison was poser.
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Many moons ago, I had an Illinois vanity plate with "XXIXII" on it. Nobody seemed to get it. Until one day when I was heading home. I'd just cleared the final toll booth by O'Hare and was in the left lane of the Kennedy. Two guys in a late-model Cadillac came flying by in the breakdown lane. With the limp-along spare on the right-front wheel. Windows down. The passenger yelled out "Rush" and pumped his fist on the way by. Finally! Someone got it!
The Doors were a very different sounding band as these ‘65 demos reveal. I like the ‘65 revision of the band better.
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Wonder if he 'flashed' him b4 he left.
The snip was part of a longer film made to promote the University Of Florida. They recruited students like Jim to act in it. Maybe he did act up, the outtakes would be interesting to see.
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It's a URT-23 HF AM/SSB/CW transmitter. It has a pair of mushroom tubes in a push pull config. I had one in the Aux Radio room that I used for MARS calls(1/2 duplex phone patches set up by stateside ham operators) that I kept fresh tubes in. Tuned up and pushed to the max I could get 1700 watts in CW out of fresh tubes. They didn't last long tho. I didn't care, I wanted guys to talk to their families.
What a grumpy old fart
Well, it's a requirement to be that way otherwise this forum would not exist. So there!
Advertising = the dark side of capitalism. I could rant for hours, but I'll spare us and just not go there.
Aw, come on... You know you want to. You fingers are tapping on the keyboard, just itching to form words. You'll feel better at first, then you'll second guess what you wrote, you'll want to change it but the edit time has passed which ticks you off even more but that doesn't matter since someone has already quoted it.
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