He said "extended crusing in the Pacific" and wants to use a 25 year old
12-chan SSB with crystals. It's quite foolish to contemplate such cruising
with an archaic, limited radio upon which one's life might depend. It's
prone to failure, and parts and repair services are next to impossible to
find. Extended crusing means the sensible mariner will want to tap into
weather nets, cruiser nets and the like -- all kinds of frequencies which
may not be known in advance for which crystals are unavailable. Advice: Get
a modern SSB and be done with it. If money's the issue, work a few weeks
longer.

Who's Ken?

And just what did you contribute Chuck? Zip. Nada. It figures.
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"Chuck Bollinger" wrote in message
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Phill wrote:

Ps: what are you on about ken?

Doesn't matter, does it? People who put up messages like that don't need
actually to know anything to appear witty, informed, sophisticated. It's
an
example of the 'wink wink, nudge nudge' school in the best Python
tradition.
It's tricky in actual conversation, because if questioned the self-styled
wit
may not be able to escape, and it most often turns out that the person
can't
really contribute anything. But on a newsgroup one can be anonymous and
back
away at any time.

And no-one ever needs to know...