In a message on Monday 08-06-16 Allen Prunty said to Ed Vance:   
      
   Hi Allen,   
      
   AP> A lot of her equipment is German... I noticed names like Grundig and   
   AP> Blaupunkt (Spelling not correct I am sure) I know from my performing   
   AP> arts she has a good microphone it's a Sennheiser (spelling not my   
   AP> best again).   
      
   Your spelling is 100% correct.   
      
   I have always had a preference for german radio, TV, household   
   appliances and whiteware, since my father was employed by Siemens, as   
   engineer for planning/building power and high voltage stations/lines.   
      
   I still have all radio sets made by NordMende, Grundig and Siemens,   
   until the latest two TV sets that became of asian manufacture.   
      
   My HiFi gear is all american, with a Harman Kardon 630, a d:o cassette   
   deck, a couple of AR-3a's, and a d:o turn table.   
      
   Non HiFi gear are an UHER 4000 Report-S tape recorder, a stationary d:o   
   made by Luxor, but modified by me for MS use, plus some small cassette   
   machines by Philips and Sony.   
      
   The only reason for mentioning all those names, is that you know them,   
   an ordinary american doesn't.   
      
   Amateur equipment consists of american and japanese made sets since   
   1960. Before that I built my own receivers and transmitters, among them   
   the first SSB exciter, a chinese copy of the Central Electronics 20A in   
   1955, and also a copy of their Sideband Slicer model B, to add to my   
   receiver.   
      
   I had to import some parts from the sates as "gift parcels", but fully   
   paid, because of the strict import regulations Finland had after the   
   WWII, that allowed only gift parcels through the customs.   
      
   I don't however remember how I got hold of the dollars needed.   
      
   I was the first SSB station on the air in Finland, and in 1957 became   
   the first one on the �land Islands too.   
      
   AP> The Channel 3 on VHF never was a good channel... everything seemed   
   AP> to interfere...   
      
   The same was true here too, because all those early TV sets had a 21 MHz   
   IF. No antenna filters helped to cure direct radiation into the TV's.   
      
      
   Have a good night,   
      
   Holger   
      
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