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What's New this
month?
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Feb 2010 |
A selection of test gear and receivers
for
sale including an AVO VCM and the venerable Icom R9000. The manuals download area
to be reintroduced soon. |
Jan 2010 |
Nothing to report other than HNY!, still unable to
attend to the site at this juncture. |
Dec 2009 |
Merry Xmas! , Sorry the manuals arent online agin
yet, dont forget the fantastic BAMA manual site in the meantime |
Dec 2008 |
Added some Heathkit and Yaesu classic line-ups to
Radios For Sale section. Merry
Xmas! Sorry, FTP Acess to manuals and projects etc is currently
disabled for security reasons. |
Oct 2008 |
Added lots of valve based test gear, including valve
testers to Test Equip For Sale |
Apr 2008 |
Formatting fixes on The
National History page thanks
to
Stanley Adams,
W4SBA for pointing it
out. Have you checked out my new site
http://valveaudio.co.nz ? |
Aug 2007 |
Added another couple of solid state
classic receivers including an
R5000 to the for sale
section. |
Jul 2007 |
Added four solid state
classic receivers including an
FRG800 to the for sale
section. |
Jan 2007 |
Happy new year, no further updates expected to mid
year, donations permitting |
Nov 2006 |
Added Mike Peebles Hikers set to
the Hikers Pages, thanks Mike, nice work.
fixed some broken links and added a couple of new links to
links pages |
Aug 2006 |
Added boatanchor company info/background on
Hammarlund,
Hallicrafters and
National. Added
second hand books for sale
section selling duplicates from my collection. Made aesthetic
changes to site design that result in cleaner display on larger screens.
pssst.paid your donation?, this years!? |
Jun 2006 |
Added Sony, Supreme, Pioneer, Leak and HP manufacturers to the mix in
the manual repository which now
holds, permanently online, 8,774 files totaling over 3 gigs, |
May 2006 |
Added Seven
quality scans from 1936-1938 Popular Mechanics of the flashlight
battery series of regens that started the hikers & other space charge
receivers |
Apr 2006 |
Hikers Two by John Bauman, KB7NRN, Oregon, USA
Congrats out to NZVRS Hikers Competition Winner
- Bryan Powell,Onehunga |
Mar 2006 |
Hikers Two by Bill Meacham, (sparkbench.com)
Puerto Rico, USA |
Feb 2006 |
Added another 20 odd models/images to the
boatanchor receiver gallery |
Jan 2006 |
Happy new year!, and our 2nd birthday this month sees a new
Tips page started and several items
added to test equip and
receivers for sale pages. |
Dec 2005 |
Guestbook disabled due to abuse of spam entries (again), No more updates
this year. I wish everyone a merry xmas & happy new year around the
world. |
Nov 2005 |
Added another 42 new models/images to the
boatanchor receiver gallery making a new total of 385 different
models. |
Sep 2005 |
Added a Learn- How-To series compliments of Peter Lankshear.
Added scanners for sale page to
receivers for sale. Added hundreds more manuals to 14 new manufacturers
in the manual repository which
now holds, permanently online, 8,734 files totaling 2.8GB,added
Hikers 1 tube set info for upcoming competition |
Aug 2005 |
Added a page with some of my crystal
sets featured. Added many xtalset circuits to plan
repository. Several collectable solid state receivers
for sale,
added a
©redits
page to ensure you know this is a collective website. |
Jul 2005 |
Updated the cyclops
magic eye one tube grid leak detector project. Added
my services page, added a nearest
equivalent table for ECU (foreign) to RMA (USA) numbers.
Added site search to bottom of most pages. |
Jun 2005 |
Reinstated the Guestbook with measures to counteract
spam, added another 46 documents to the
manual archives which now holds 7500+ files. |
May 2005 |
Added 11 more boatanchors to the
gallery for a new total of 346
Added 16 more batteries to the battery
gallery for a new total of 80 |
Apr 2005 |
added nine more manuals to the manuals archives, enjoy
Added 13 additional boatanchors to the
gallery for a new total of 335. |
Feb 2005 |
fixed manual ftp download problem for netscape and
firefox users, |
Jan 2005 |
happy new year! - added to
battery photo gallery,
disabled guestbook facility because of spam abuse. |
Nov 2004 |
add my trf receiver page, added
links section.
experimenting with BBS |
Oct 2004 |
add project plan download ftp service of data approx 100MB.
added personal receivers and test equipment I have for sale. |
Sep 2004 |
provide 2GB FTP manual download service, added
search
facility. |
Aug 2004 |
add transistor radios and
tubes & boxes to gallery's,
added to Xtal Set and
detector galleries. added
tubes for sale facility. |
July 2004 |
created links pages, updated
boatanchor galleries. add
CV tubes and VT
tubes cross-reference and lamp data. |
May 2004 |
started work on vintage advertising section, started
reference data pages, add
service van photos. added to the
boatanchor gallery. |
Apr 2004 |
create old tubes and
old battery galleries, added
guestbook. |
Mar 2004 |
add menu bars and shared borders, started
bakelite and
console galleries. |
Feb 2004 |
decided on site theme and colors and created logos. |
Jan 2004 |
this site was conceived, the outline created and work
commenced. |