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Re: old receivers solid state?
From:
Lowell Miller <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:14:02 -0400
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Jim, with all respect to you, I think you will find that the Drake 1A was a 
tube receiver.
I had two of the Drake 2B receiver and they were later and were tube type.
The 1A must have come out about 1961 and were not near as popular as the 2B 
became.
I do not think that Drake used anything solid state until the Drake TR3 
which had some solid stat components in the VFO.
That's my best memory anyhow, HI HI.
73
Lowell  W8QIY
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Shaker" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: old receivers solid state?


> One of the very early receivers was the Drake 1A.  I had one and it was a
> very good one.  It was solid State, but with solid State discrete
> components.
>
> Jim
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Walt Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:05 AM
> Subject: Re: old receivers solid state?
>
>
>> Does anybody remember for sure just what the first all solid state rig
>> was?
>> Seems like it might have been a Yaesu around 1963 or so, but whatever it
>> was, it didn't last and it was quite a while until another one was
>> marketed.
>> From what I seem to remember, this first rig was actually fairly decent,
>> especially considering the state of the art at the time, but conservative
>> amateurs just weren't quite ready yet to accept anything without tubes.
>> Kenwood came out with a couple of hybrid rigs (the then top-of-the line
>> Kenwood transceiver, whose model number I forget except that it was 8XX
>> being one) and from then on, solid state was slowly but steadily 
>> accepted.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: old receivers solid state?
>>
>>
>> Trust me with eleven tubes or so, their is nothing solid state about
>> the nc-300 or any other national receiver for that matter.
>>
>>
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