Fairly soon the e-mailing group grew in size to 20-25 people, mostly radio amateurs enjoying collecting, operating, repairing, buying and selling older receivers and transmitters etc.,
The list is now maintained on the QTH.NET list server.
Generally it is considered to be:
Larger, older tube type equipment of all kinds. Anything that is heavy and contains iron transformers! But the definition must be broad enough to include a lot of early, antique, vintage and JUNK radio equipment of almost any kind, military and commercial (grin!)
People interested in Boatanchors to want to connect with other hams in the Metro DC, Northern Virginia and Baltimore area that enjoy the older rigs. Shortwave listeners and radio amateurs primarily.
(OK, all you PA and Delaware people can squeeze in too IF You are friendly about it!)
We have a little informal list of all the DC AREA BOATANCHORS ENTHUSIASTS. It is an e-mailing list and not too complicated to learn how to use.
Most of the time it is low traffic, but if someone hears of something good to do, sell, buy or needs help with something locally, we can all be in touch this way. Share your ideas and questions about the old rigs, please post hamfest information, and any news about BAs.
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OK, so your e-mails are all mixed in with the traffic from this list. The best way to handle this is to use a FOLDER for all of your incoming DCBOATANCHORS messages. Then you set up your mail reader program to FILTER the messages that are addressed to or from dcboatanchors to go into that folder.
For example, I use Pegasus mail reader (available from www.tucows.com) and others use Eudora or similar programs. I set up a MAIL FILTER function to detect all incoming list messages and direct them into a seperate folder.
The mail filter rule is that if a message contains a header line such that the subject contains "[DCBoatanchors]" then it gets sent into my folder, and I can look through them apart from all my other incoming e-mail.
I STRONGLY recommend making the effort to use one of these mail reader programs and set it up that way. The only other sensible choice is to get the DIGEST version of the list (see below)
Not sure! Contact Dan Ferguson, the List Manager
Yes - at http://www.qth.net
Let me know if you need any assistance!
Best regards - Dan Ferguson(List Administrator)