[TowerTalk] Best Balun

[Ken]

The homebrew was fun and exciting at it’s time but I agree a K3 is much more versatile and fun.   I did play around with a number of 1 or 2 tube rigs when I was a teen and a 6L6 on a TV chassis was one of them.   And I fondly remember the blinking purple glow of the mercury vapor rectifiers as I keyed the rig, something today’s hams will never see!

Ken WA8JXM

> On Nov 26, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Bill Turner <dezrat at outlook.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:50:13 -0500, you wrote:
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>>       After 57 years on the air, I’m still amazed that our puny efforts can be heard around the world.  Doing it with a 6L6 or 807 is ten times the fun of doing it with a K-3!
>> 73,
>> WL
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> REPLY:
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> My first transmitter was a 2E26 built on a junked TV chassis when I
> was 15.  It looked horrible but it worked.  It was all I could afford.
> Having done it both ways, I much prefer the K3.
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> To each his own.
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> 73, Bill W6WRT
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