24 Jun
2004
24 Jun
'04
2:56 p.m.
The people I know who are into telephones seem to
let it get out of control and start to try to build
major exchanges in the back yard.
This is a shock - but a good one. Nearly all of the telephone collectors I
know are interested only in the telephones - once past the plug, they
don't give a care. CO stuff is just not important to them, and neither is
longline stuff. Too bad, as so much of today's networking theory is based
on Bell stuff from 70 plus years ago.
I guess that there will soon be another breed of
collector with large transmitter masts and
glowing valves in the back garden :-)
"Will be"?
People have been collecting large transmitters (250 thru 5000 Watt) for
some time. Some hams modify them (not much, basically just a small shift
in frequency) to work on the 160 meter band.
I think my big transmitters just recently lost the weight crown in my
collection to the computers.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org