Howard:

I still have a working Drake TR-4 -- it's the only HF rig I own -- but
it's not on the air at the moment.

Think you're right about the tubes.

I remember the Swan 350 and 500 well -- and the Cygnet (the Swan 260).
And then there was that Swan rig that, as you way, went 80/40/20.  Was it
the Swan 240?

And then does anyone remember the SBE 33 and 34?  I always thought the 34
was cute!

And the Centronix 20A SSB exciter?  And how about the awful Eico 753?

I think Ben Prows (WA7BOO) had a HW-12A.

I used to use a Heath SB-101 though it wasn't mine.  That was a rugged
rig!  Used 6146's as the final rather than those darn sweep tubes!

And then does anyone remember the Signal 1 -- that rig made ty National
Cash Register?  It was a bit ahead of its time and the engineering showed
it!  Lots of problems.

Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Howard Kaufman wrote:

> Isn't it interesting thhat one breath of a mention about an old radio
> brings out many many loving comments about old radios.  But never the same
> reaction to a didgital or solid state radio.  Or as I think of it, not to a
> ssb radio.
> How many people are pationate about their first icom 735 or ts430?  I think
> it is something about tubes but I am wondering.  Remember the swan 350 and
> the ncx3's.  At the bottom of the sunspot cycle in the 60's companies made
> radios that went no higher than 20 meters.
> Speaking of that, anybody use the hw12, 32, or 22?
> I have seen guys modify the hw12's and make them into 160 meter single
> banders.
>
> Howard
>