DAMN YOU ELECRAFT!

[WD6DBM]

I swore I was going GREEN for SKN. All green. You know, Heathkit.

After a few hours with my Heathkit CW Twins getting clobbered by stations a KHz away, I thought what could it hurt?  I don't have to TELL anyone I'm using an AF-1. So I hooked it up.

But no, it wasn't enough.  It sat there, across the room--its dark, lifeless LCD mocking me. The operating ease. The selectivity.  The blinking lights.  NR. NB.  Knowing exactly what frequency it was on.  No tuning. No spotting.

The K-line would not leave me alone.  

I gave in. I'm weak. Human. I had no chance against its siren call.  The K-Line. As natural with a 50 year-old Vibroplex as it is with a keyer. Ahhhhh...

73 de WD6DBM SKN

 

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[wayne burdick]

Thanks a lot, Eric. Now we'll have to promote the junior chemist who  
secretly added a potent but not yet FCC-approved pheromone--
mojoflourethane--to the K-line.

Happy New Year ;)

Wayne
N6KR

Eric wrote:

> I swore I was going GREEN for SKN. All green. You know, Heathkit.
>
> After a few hours with my Heathkit CW Twins getting clobbered by  
> stations a KHz away, I thought what could it hurt?  I don't have to  
> TELL anyone I'm using an AF-1. So I hooked it up.
>
> But no, it wasn't enough.  It sat there, across the room--its dark,  
> lifeless LCD mocking me. The operating ease. The selectivity.  The  
> blinking lights.  NR. NB.  Knowing exactly what frequency it was  
> on.  No tuning. No spotting.
>
> The K-line would not leave me alone.
>
> I gave in. I'm weak. Human. I had no chance against its siren call.  
> The K-Line. As natural with a 50 year-old Vibroplex as it is with a  
> keyer. Ahhhhh...
>
> 73 de WD6DBM SKN

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