So what’s the story behind the acorn?
This little magnetic acorn was on Carl Gauzens homebrew tube ham transmitter from the 1940’s. When Evelyn Gauzens (the founder of the Miami Hamboree) got ready to leave town. She called me over to grab all the old radio gear nobody wanted. There was a 3’ rack filled with a homebrew tube AM/CW transmitter that ran Taylor tubes.
The gear was not worth saving and I parted it out. This little acorn thing got flung into my yard along with the scrap parts in a pile. I didn’t think much of it. While mowing the lawn at reappeared at my feet. I picked it up and stuck it on something in the car porch. Their it sat till I moved. Once again it got thrown in the scrap heap attached to some peice of equipment. The scrap guy came by to pick up junk and the acorn once again ended up at my feet.
It was at that point that I took the message on this little fridge magnet to heart. The thing simply wouldn’t go away and it’s message was so relevant it was scary. It now sits on one of the metal horns on my Altec theater speakers. A testimony to “don’t give up”!
