Re: [Harp-L]tube handling

[David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Absolutely.

de KB8NNT
 
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 From: Timothy Kane <hawkeyekane@xxxxxxxxx>
To: David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L]tube handling
 

Just outta curiosity....
 
Have you ever messed with a ham radio before? My wife's uncle is major ham out of Marshall, IL. Even has the ham radio license plates on his car. He swears by those suckers. It's funny how you mentioned that tube driven devices would survive a nuke attack, because that's what he always says about his ham. 
 
"One day, when all communications go out across the country and everbody's sitting in the dark with no cell service, I'm still gonna be talking to folks in Europe if I'm having a good night."
 
I've thought about getting into ham myself. God knows I'd have a good taste in mics for it. ;-) 
 
 
 
                          Hawkeye Kane
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From: David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Harp L Harp L <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L]tube handling

You'd think vacuum tubes would be really fragile, but they aren't. If somebody detonated a nuke in the atmosphere or if we had a solar storm like the one in the 1850s that caught the telegraphs on fire all across the U.S., the only radios that would still
 work would be ones like this nine-tube Heathkit International Broadcast receiver that sits by my bedside. They're the cockroaches of electronics. Of course, all the solid-state stations would be knocked out and there wouldn't be much to listen to. My point is, they are pretty tough... I went through the Heathkit around Christmas and replaced around four tubes that tested weak - but were still working - the rest of them have been in that radio for more than 40 years and that radio runs all night, every night, because I fall asleep listening to it. I love vacuum tubes. I love the way they hum, I love the way they sound, love the way they look and even like the way they smell when a bunch of them get warmed up.