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Sorry I'm I'm slow back to the microphone I was trying to find my J38 Am I gonna have yes and you know I know now as an adult that that tube smell wasn't the smell of hot tubes say it was the smell of the dust dusty hot dusty tubes because it'd be the dust to be burning off of the surfs of the tube and yeah my first transmitter was a Heathkit 8T1 which my uncle Phil had given to me when I got my first novice license in 1970 and my first radio receiver was my friend Kurt's S38 the original 6-tube S38 with had a real BFO barely adequate in fact I jokingly my QR said profile I jokingly refer to it as a classic low-performance HF receiver and