Guys, what's the story on the companies that made the following amps? TRANSWORLD TW500A Metron who owned 'em? and why'd they go under? thanks, -Chuck K8CPA ___________________________________________
They apparently were not widely known, successful, or poor advertisers. Although I have to say the name "Metron" sorta sounds familiar, I never heard of them. So far what little I've found Transworld
I had a customer who was with HCJB Shortwave in Equator. If I remember right, they had a transmitter manufacturing business as a result of them building their own transmitters. I seem to remember tha
I have one of these. Very nicely made amp. Metron /Transworld is still in business and seemed to sell a lot of these with their TW100 radio (also very nicely made) in a rack format for embassy / gove
business a rack format used it on I was a Metron dealer years ago before Magnus sold out to Transworld. I toured the Transworld factory shortly after they took on the Metron line, and was very impre
That company was related to Crown, the company that first made tape recorders for missionaries, and later expanded into excellent audio power amps. The factory was in Elkhart, IN. I've been both a cu
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The person who was with HCJB was Clarence Moore, W9LZX. He lived in Elkhart, Indiana, which is just east of South Bend. Moore is also credited with "inventing" the quad antenna. Glen, K9STH Website:
History of Cubical Quad as reported by W6SAI and W2LX in "All About Cubical Quad Antennas", Radio Publications Inc. 1972 In the year 1939 a group of radio engineers from the United States traveled to
I grew up about 35 miles from Elkhart, Indiana (in LaPorte, Indiana). However, I never worked W9LZX. But, I did work his son a couple of times on 2-meter AM. Glen, K9STH Website: http://k9sth.com I h
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