Re: Service Providers Recycling Phone Numbers

George ...

That was a "Hallicrafters" Sky Buddy! (Halliburton is, of course, a whole different thing.)

I, too had a Sky Buddy. It was quite a radio for an SWL in high school. I had it for several years until I graduated to an S-38C receiver (which I still have, along with the original reciept which reveals I bought it used in the early 1960s). My Sky Buddy suffered a painful (and smelly death) one day when the power transformer decided to have a melt down!

The S-38C was a great radio for its time as well! It's still in the garage, langushing day after day in a cardboard box. My present HF receiver is 'way smarter than I am but it certainly runs circles around those old ones!

George, thanks for pulling the memory of that radio and those times our of the background noise!

PAT - > Thanks for your response, and for the rationale as to why cell phone > users must pay for incoming calls. > Good Gawd! I had a ham license before WWII (W9ZUK), and I worked over > 100 countries -- and I still have the QSL cards for verification. In > CW, I ran a pair of 809s, in push-pull, driven by 6L6s, into a primitive > directional antenna. Receiver? A Halliburton Sky Buddy! > Can you imagine how either Verizon, or the newly-minted AT&T, would act > if they were placed in charge of today's ham radio? I don't even want to > think about it. > George( The Old Fud)