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MMM ... I heard one (the Bandmaster) that sounded quite good on 10-meter
a.m. Think you had to have just the right mic for it. There was an audio
gain pot accessible via screwdriver, I think, on the back.
Re those Heath twins I was trying to think of -- the CW/AM ones that went
mobile. The receiver was the Cheyenne, I think, and the transmitter was
the Commanchee. There may have been a Navajo as well but think I've
finally got it right this time -- Cyenne/Commanchee. This was all long
before the movement to get native American names out of things.
Too bad manufacturers didn't name xmtrs after women -- just think of the
flap there'd be now if we talked about operating our Dzha Dzha's or our
Mae West's.
Hey wait a minute -- there *was* an emergency hand-cranked CW transmitter
-- sent out an automatic SOS on 500 kHz for life-rafts during WW@, called
the "Gibson Girl". I saw one in working order once. You hoisted the
antenna on a kite or balloon. How a famished dude could crank that thing
after 14 days adrift, I'll never know. Guess one will do most anything if
one is sufficiently desperate.
Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
Amateur Radio: < K 7 U I J >
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Patrick Byrne wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I had one of those; modified it for 160. Quite a transmitter - never had
> quite enough speech amp, however. Used a Heath VF1 with it.
>
> Pat, K9JAUAt 11:07 AM 4/19/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >Now I'll take people back a way. I bet Don Bishop may be the only one
> >that remembers this: the first transmitter I used as a Novice was a
> >Harvey-Wells Bandmaster (the TBS50 series -- I had the D).
> >Crystal-controlled, of course, though one could plug in a VFO. CW and AM,
> >80 thru 2-meters. Used a 807 final.
> >
> >Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
> >Amateur Radio: < K 7 U I J >
> >
> >
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