Looky What Followed Me Home Last Night

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

It's big, it's wrinkle black, and thankfully - it has wheels! 

[WA3VJB]

You just don't see oil burners with meters on them anymore.

Just in time for winter !

Light it up and stay warm.

[John Holotko]

You just don't see oil burners with meters on them anymore.

Just in time for winter !

Light it up and stay warm.

Oil burner indeed... That kind of oil burner may not be recommended to todays appliance operators but, that will sure generate some nice radiant heat  and keeps the electromagnetic ether toasty warm. 

[W2VW]

Nice rig. Just keep it away from mad scientists or it could land up like this:

[Jim, W5JO]

Is that you in the middle Todd?

[Glenn NY4NC]

You just love that heavy stuff don't ya Todd!!! 

[Herb K2VH]

You just don't see oil burners with meters on them anymore.

Todd,
When I first showed my wife a picture of a BCI-610E that I wanted to get, she said, "Oh Herb, it looks like a furnace!"  I put off getting the one I have for another 10 years, and by then, she didn't seem to mind.  Thos E models are my favorite, and are grand old rigs.  Careful tuning it up: (see below)

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

Herb: this is the E model, albeit a 'slightly improved' version with an added audio module flopping around inside (that cost me a 2A3!) with associated controls and connectors added to the case. I also like the E model, looks a lot like the original HT-4 and goes well with the SX-28A sitting across the room from it now. Years ago I picked up a BC-939 antenna tuner, so the first thing I did was to flip the studs back over and mount it. Looks beastly!

Paul: you sound as bad as the person who looked at the 300G a while back and said "transmitter? Looks like a gray bookcase with knobs".

Dave: the mad scientist shows excellent workmanship. I have a mod transformer like the one in your picture, don't tempt me!

Jim: I'm the ugly one on the right, the transmitter looks far nice and has fewer scars and flaws, although I'm not sure who's had more surgery. KC1BT is the guy on left who sold the beast to me.

And Glenn, if you had just taken care of that Raytheon near your new QTH, I wouldn't seem quite as crazy as I d-d-d-do.

Actually, my dream is to be the Godfather of heavy metal, like don Joe Croleone:

"I'm gonna show you a transmittah you no canna lift alone"

[Glenn NY4NC]

What a great photo of Don the Vortex Joe!!!... that's excellent. Did you take that photo?

Todd, I got a back ache just looking at that Raytheon transmitter! 

..."you hava disrespected da modulator.."

[W2VW]

Don't any of you guys own a fork lift?

[Vortex Joe - N3IBX]

Actually, my dream is to be the Godfather of heavy metal, like don Joe Croleone:

"I'm gonna show you a transmittah you no canna lift alone"

Hey Clemenza. U no lifta the BeeCee 610 alone. You breaka you callognes!

Actually I'll take care of whatever you need to get it working (seriously). I may someday ask you of a service, and that day may never come! The day you bringa home U first BeeCee 610 is like the Day a Sicilian Fathers' first daughter gets married. Men will come and ask you of many services. U cannot refuse those services!

I'm proud of your first BeeCee 610. May all of you who acquire your first one acquire a masculine one. A BeeCee 610 is a most masculine transmitter! Not like a Jon-sohn or DX-a 1 hundred. Thosea transmitters are made for women. Women talk, Men take action! You wanna transmitter thatsa gonna make some action and reaction and U gotta in your BeeCee, capisce? I digress.........

The besta luck in U BeeCee and U talka to Don Joe Croleone N3IBX if you needa help making it "parlapiano" (smooth talking). It'sa good machine.

Justa make sure you no tella Fredo about it. He'sa my own son but nota the sharpest pencil in the case. Fredo might try to put it on 11 meters!

Stato Buono de Don Croleone
(Godfather of Breadboarded and Black Crackle) The bigger it is and more it weighs, the BETTER it will work!