On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:15:56 GMT, Bruce in Alaska
wrote:


73
Doug K7ABX, another semi-retired senile old fart



Hey...what ever blows your skirt......

When did you go into "semi-retirded-ment"?.....

Geeeze we got a crowd of Old Gezzzer'a hang'en out here. You, "Me",
Lynn, Larry.... I have often wondered if Gary was in our age group.....



Bruce in alaska

Hi Bruce,

Yea unfortunately I am getting up there too. I just turned 60. I beat
Larry by a month. I have been kind of retired for a few years but
keep thinking about doing something. I did some marine work back in
the early 70's. That's when there were a lot of konel and Northern
radios with the manual tuners.
I remember the first job I went on to tune one of those things. After
a few minutes of trial and error swapping caps and coil taps I started
to calculate what type circuit was needed, hooked it up that way and
it worked. The guy that was "showing me the ropes" couldn't believe
that you could quickly figure out the circuit and values needed to get
close without just blind trial and error.

Oh well, you know that goes back aways.

Regards
Gary