R599 rocked on RTTY ;-) w/ 4-1000 for the T-599 -- Original Message -- From: "Robert Morris" <robrk@nidhog.net> To: "Fuqua, Bill L" <wlfuqu00@uky.edu> Cc: <amps@contesting.com> Sent: Saturday, June 0
Mind you most receivers for the same era did not have 160 meters because few hams were able to operate or willing to operate 160 then. For the same reasons linear amplifiers and transmitters did not
I think the Drake R4B is the only receiver I can think of that meets all the requirements and can still be bought for $200 or less. 1) Mostly Tubes 2) Receives AM, CW, SSB 3) Covers 160-10 with added
Frequency range was 1.8-1.825 and IIRC power limit was 100 watts. Bottom 10 KHz was mostly CW and there was a DX window in there some where, bout 1.812 or so. Some versions of the Hallicrafters SX101
I'll take a NC-300 or 303 over those others any day, its the classic look that counts along with excellent performance. I had a 2B in the early 60's and was very dissapointed with its poor overload p
Anyone out there still have any of these radios in operationa? I'd like to hear of WAV file of front-end overload. Over the years I had most of them... can't remember having an over load problem, the
I have well over 100 BA's and have put several thru the various overload tests after restored to original performance and then with a few modified for strong signal performance. These are cycled thru