Hi Ed,

On Wed 2012-Apr-18 17:01, Ed Vance (1:2320/105.1) wrote to RICHARD WEBB:


RW>EV> I got a Drake 2-B later on to use with a Heathkit
"Apache" TX-1.

RW>EV> Neither one of them were New, just 'new' to me.

RW>EV> Both of them are nice rigs.

RW>I had a Hamarlund, but it was at my parents' house, I was

EV> The first Hammarlund I got to use was at a Navy base Ham Shack. 

EV> A HQ-170 (no Clock), I fell in love with it, but never bought any
EV> Hammarlund gear for my own shack.

The 180 my uncle gave me.  I've got a 129 over here on the
side bench right now.

EV> At another Navy Ham Shack they had a National NC-303(?) receiver and
EV> a T-350-XM AM transmitter (700 Watts I think).

I think school for the blind had teh National, 303 might or
might not be right nomenclature.  They had ti coupled with
the novice station, nice receiver.  The big "kids" and
adults general and up got to use the Collins rig .

EV> The transmitter would frequently blow a fuse and the side panel had
EV> to be taken off to replace it.

  Love that remoting the circuit breaker thing.
Have seen mods like that.

EV> The panel was approximately five foot high and 15 inches wide and
EV> was made of Steel.

RW>The Drake 2b and 2c were much better receivers.  Iirc they
RW>at least had an gac circuit, which the hEath hr-10 didn't.

EV> I forgot that I had replaced the Hallicrafters S-38E with a used
EV> Hallicrafters, a SX-42, that had coverage from 540 KC/S to 108 MC/S.


A friend had the sx-71 iirc, and iirc the ht-37.

EV> That was a real nice receiver.
I bet so.  Even their receivers for the entry level weren't
too bad.


Regards,
           Richard
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