[Boatanchors] FS: lot of 26 DX QSL Cards 1950s

[Philip (KO6BB)]

And as an (OT?) side note.  I collect OTR (Old Time Radio Shows) and 
some NTR (New radio dramas from BBC etc) of every genre.  Lately I've 
just started adding SOME OTV shows and movies from the early days of TV, 
a very FEW series up through the early '80s (Like Murder She Wrote, our 
favorite TV show of all time).  I try to post an old movie or TV show on 
my OTR blog at least once a week (missed last week as this 3.6GHz Dual 
Core Intel computer was maxed out on bandwidth ).   There are over 
139,000 files (~1TB) on Drive D which is dedicated to Audio and 2,200 
(476GB)  on drive "G" which is dedicated to Video files.  Both of those 
drives are 2TB in capacity.  All except a small part of this is Public 
Domain and I haven't had to pay  for any of it (yes, you can pay to buy 
the stuff from vendors, but being PD it is all available if you know 
where to look).  It has taken years to put it together and is much 
better entertainment than is available on TV and Radio today!!

So, different strokes for different folks.

NOTE:  To keep this On Topic, I've considered building a small AM 
broadcaster so I can listen to the OTR on a boatanchor receiver 
reminiscent  of the time period the shows came from (30's 40's 50's 
etc).  But I haven't done it as I have a high end audio system on the 
computer that is hard to beat for fidelity. . .

There are over

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
http://www.qsl.net/ko6bb/   (Web Page)
http://ko6bb1.multiply.com/ (My OTR Blog)
http://cbsmysterytheater.multiply.com/ (My CBS
Radio Mystery Theater Blog)

RADIOS:
Yaesu FT-2000 Xceiver for "hamming" and LF Beacons.
National NC-183 16 Tube Receiver (circa 1949)
Zenith "American" Royal-7000 Transoceanic. (circa 1970)
Zenith "Taiwan made" 7000-2 Transoceanic. (Circa 1971)
Realistic DX-380 Digital Portable.

ANTENNAS:
88' Long balanced dipole.
"Mini-Whip" (active antennas) for LF.

Merced, Central California, 37.3N 120.48W  CM97sh


On 7/12/2011 3:21 PM, Todd, KA1KAQ wrote:
> People pay a lot for antique postcards, too. Written to other people
> by other people.
>
> And you just gotta know Rob, that there are a lot of people out there
> (even some hams) who routinely say:
>
> "I just cannot believe that anyone would use or collect old radios.
> What's the point? They've long been replaced by better technology"
>
> Then there's that old addage "One man's trash is another man's treasure".
>
> The incredible diversity of interests is quite fascinating to me. All
> the sub-categories like keys, mics, tubes, etc. And that's just in
> radio.
>
> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4
>


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