Bill Gates invented the radio....

The mind boggles! The radio would take 30 minutes to warm up, every so often it would just stop working or randomly retune to another station for no apparent reason, and you wouldn't be able to listen to half the stations unless you bought a "Broadcast band update" package every six months. [Linked Image]

Seriously though, I remember an engineering group (I forget which) here a couple of years ago complaining that they could get plenty of software developers, digital techs, and so forth, but were having a hard time finding any decent engineers who could work on analog and RF systems. As they said at the time, "All the tech students go into digital/computing sides these days," and I think that's true to a large degree.

Mike, I know exactly what you mean about getting radios to work. I grew up playing around with old sets and building new ones out salvaged parts.

If I give a string of numbers like 6V6, EF80, ECH80, 807, EZ80, 5V4, 12AX7, 6SN7 I'm sure I need say no more! [Linked Image]