W1AEX Gets Top Billing in the March, 2010 Issue of ER Magazine!

[W2XR]

Congratulations to Rob, W1AEX for making the cover of Electric Radio, issue of March, 2010!

Nice rig, OM!

73,

Bruce

[W3RSW]

Yep, congrats Rob. Can't wait to see your rig.
Still waiting for my issue; maybe I should have paid for 1st class mail.
Then again, looks like we might be skipping Saturday deliveries, for starters. 

[W1AEX]

Heh, thanks for the accolades Bruce and Rick!

I can only tell you that my 15 seconds of fame has changed my life completely. Now, when I go to Walmart to buy transmitter parts, the biker chicks who hang around the men’s deodorant section literally throw themselves at me. Also, as I drive into town for my morning coffee, the farmers all move their tractors to the side of the road, to allow me to pass without any delay. If I go anywhere near Dunkin Donuts, I’m swamped with autograph requests and have to fight off the paparazzi. I don’t know how long this new level of fame and worship will last, but it appears that nothing has changed here at home. My wife still expects me to help wash the dinner dishes each night…

:O)

[W3GMS]

Rob,
As others have said, I was deligted to have my ER come the other day and see not only a FB station on front cover but it was someone that I knew from on the air! 

I remember very well that HB rig and the re-worked Viking from when we worked many years ago before you went "radio silent" for a bunch of years.  Its good you kept "old betsy" and even though you have some much newer gear its always good firing up the old stuff from time to time.

Congrats on your cover shot again...

Regards,
Joe, W3GMS 

[W3RSW]

Rob,

Looked you up on qrz.com and found nice pix and writeup.
Is it the 4-400 rig on the cover of "ER" or the Viking "III" or... ?

At any rate, really nice stchuff!

[W1AEX]

Thanks for the kind words Joe!

Rick, the rig in the cover picture is the Viking III that I re-packaged into a 3 foot rack plus a smaller 14 inch rack under the bench for the modulator with its separate 1250 volt power supply. It's the same transmitter that's in my "avatar" to the left of my posts. It warms up Studio B very nicely in the winter!