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"Lynn Coffelt" wrote: Hmmmm......... The guys that showed me the ropes used a Simpson 260 with a battered leather case, an earphone and a wet finger. (Oh, yeah, as you mentioned, an NE-2 taped to the end of a diddle stick) Old Chief Lynn, Anacortes Marine Electronics (for 20 years) What, you taped yours to a diddle stick??? We always just held them in our fingers out in front of the waveguide flange..... Well not on 40Kw Decca 404's.... but all the rest..... Hmmm, sounds like an old timer....The really good techs came from Northern Radio, Radar Electric, and Raytheon Marine back in the 60's and 70's. I am an old Northern Man, and one of the few "Old Boys" left. Don Hollingsworth Sr. is still around at G & L Marine, and he is a Raytheon transplant. Billy Pulse came from the end of the era Radar Electric shop. That's about it for that generation, that still practice the "Art" of Marine Electronics. Same with the "Regulators". (FCC) After the closing of RegionX in Kirkland, there just isn't anyone left that really understands the Marine Mobile Radio Service. Bob Dietch, Bob Zenes, Gary Solsby, Bill Johnson, and even Denny Anderson have all retired. Me getting old is a Bitch......all the good guys just die off.... |
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