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AI5BC

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Re: what makes a boat anchor?
« Reply #15 on: February 11, 2023, 07:07:36 AM »

Something old and antiquated, no one in their right mind would want. Wait a minute, are we talking about old equipment or your wife?
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W1RKW

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Re: what makes a boat anchor?
« Reply #16 on: February 11, 2023, 08:07:19 AM »

Something old and antiquated, no one in their right mind would want. Wait a minute, are we talking about old equipment or your wife?

more like ball and chain for some.
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SWMAN

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Re: what makes a boat anchor?
« Reply #17 on: February 11, 2023, 08:44:51 AM »

A boat anchor for me is any radio that when I pick it up and carry it makes my back hurt more than it already does.
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K8HU

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Re: what makes a boat anchor? Have some suggestions......
« Reply #18 on: February 11, 2023, 09:52:00 AM »

Weight and vacuum tube operation come to mind as precursors.  I restored R390A's for over 20 years and they definitely qualify tipping the scales at 72 lbs w/out cabinet.  Second boatanchor is the Collins 32V-x AM transmitter.  Heaviest rig for its physical size I've even known.  3rd, In my experience is the Collins 20V-2 1KW commercial broadcast transmitter I moved to 160M.  That tipped the scales at around 1500 lbs with all the transformers, chokes and reactors installed.

Chuck, K8HU ex WA4HHG

tried searching but no definitive answer here to the question:

What makes a boat anchor?
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W6MK

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Re: what makes a boat anchor?
« Reply #19 on: February 11, 2023, 02:43:57 PM »

What makes a boat anchor? A heavy chunk of metal.

What makes a boatanchor? Ditto.
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K0UA

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Re: what makes a boat anchor?
« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2023, 07:15:42 PM »

Or a Heath DX-100.....

I used to have one of those when I was a very young ham. I am pretty sure I could not pick one up off of the floor now. Pretty darn sure. AND I would not try to pick it up for it.
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Re: what makes a boat anchor?
« Reply #21 on: February 12, 2023, 08:55:55 AM »

I consider my Kenwood 520s, 820s, Yaesu FR-101 boat anchors

But not my Kenwood TS-430s and certainly not my SDR's such as the 991A and 7300.
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AD4DQ

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Re: what makes a boat anchor?
« Reply #22 on: February 14, 2023, 07:13:04 AM »

Has to have tubes..... and heavy, Heathkit Apache, Johnson Viking etc.... but now if it has tubes
it is considered a boat anchor....
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K0RS

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Re: what makes a boat anchor?
« Reply #23 on: February 14, 2023, 07:44:37 AM »

Any rig that you can't make a logical justification for owning.
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KD6VXI

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Re: what makes a boat anchor?
« Reply #24 on: February 24, 2023, 10:35:31 AM »

What is a boat anchor is akin to watching The Hangover movies.....


"BUT DID YOU DIE"...?

If you didn't die lifting it, it's not a boat anchor.

Yeasu need not apply.

Plate modulated = boat anchor
AM the primary mode = boat anchor
Something KM1H knows about = Boat Anchor
Work of Art = Boat Anchor
Uses 3 digit tubes = AWESOME Boat Anchor



Needs a UHaul to move?  = Great Boat Anchor.

--Shane
WP2ASS / ex KD6VXI
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W9WQA

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Re: what makes a boat anchor?
« Reply #25 on: February 24, 2023, 11:54:11 AM »

worked with r390 made at stewart warner,1963.
new, it was a boat anchor...
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W1RKW

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Re: what makes a boat anchor?
« Reply #26 on: February 24, 2023, 01:03:31 PM »

Hernia
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W3SLK

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Re: what makes a boat anchor?
« Reply #27 on: February 25, 2023, 04:57:22 AM »

KD6VXI said:
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Something KM1H knows about = Boat Anchor
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I'm working with one of the HOF Boatanchor Receivers: Collins R-388
I've come to really appreciate how this mechanical thing of beauty still is precise over 70 years!
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