Not to my knowledge Howard. The Elmac products were designed
primarily for mobile use - no power supply and rather small by the
then current standards. There was an Elmac AF54, AF67 and AF68,
PMR6, PMR7 and I believe PMR8 receivers. They ran fifty watts - A M,
F M and C W. There were two power supplies, one 110v only and
another, 6 and 12 volt D C and 110v A C. That was a vibrator power
supply; two 250 volt supplies with their output in series. The AF67
had an unusual band switch. It was horizantal, a lever, which drove
a chain inside the rig which operated a number of wafer switches to
change bands.
Gonset made the G66 and G77, receiver and transmitter. They were
slim and very stylish, I believe. The mosulator/power supply was
separate and meant to be mounted elsewhere in the car. Ran 80
through ten meters A M and C W. Morrow made a transmitter and
receiveer but I never had the chance to handle them. Even E F
Johnson made a mobile transmitter which I handled at Allied Radio in
Chicago but never heard on the air. And there was a Pierson KE93
receiver, which was the best of the lot but pretty pricy so never
made a lot of inroads.
I was part of a bunch of guys who were pretty interested in 160 meter
mobile and that's where I got my mobile rig education!! For a guy
who never drove!!
Sorry I got so windy. But as the song goes, "those were the days my friend"!!
Pat, K9JAU t 07:34 AM 1/6/2012, you wrote:
>Hi Pat,
>
>Is Elmac the company that made a Collins look-a-like set of radios? If so,
>I have never seen them. Of course they didn't come with the quality of
>Collins though!
>
>73's
>
>Howard #3
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 5:17 PM
>Subject: Re: Monitoring our CW Signal with Older Rigs
>
>
> >I have an Elmac AF67 and M1070 tucked away. Used it on ten a m last
> > cycle. Still a good, reliable transmitter.
> > Pat, K9JAUAt 06:24 AM 1/5/2012, you wrote:
> >>I had a Knight R100A rcvr with the Valiant.
> >>A.S.
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Albert Sanchez" <[log in to unmask]>
> >>To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >>Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 7:21 AM
> >>Subject: Re: Monitoring our CW Signal with Older Rigs
> >>
> >>
> >> > HI ALL!
> >> > I had an Elmac AF67 with the M1070 matching power supply as my first
> >> > transmitter with an old military receiver of some sort that must've
> >> > weighed
> >> > at least 100 pounds that covered 2 thru 22 Mhz. I had two XTALS on 80
> >> > and
> >> > 1
> >> > on 40 novice bands. After upgrading to Conditional license I used the
> >> > Elmac
> >> > on CW with its internal VFO--it had just a small amount of chirp.
> >> > Upgraded
> >> > to a Viking Valiant, then to a TR4. Sure had a lot of fun! I monitored
> >> > my
> >> > CW
> >> > by turning down the RF gain on the rcvr.
> >> > 73's, A.S., WA7FXB
> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 12:14 PM
> >> > Subject: Re: Monitoring our CW Signal with Older Rigs
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> That was my first transmitter, too, Tom, a DX-35. I operated on 40
> >> >> and
> >> >> had
> >> >> a xtal whose tripple harmonic allowed me to work 15-meters Novice band
> >> >> then.
> >> >> I well remember that rig and the stupid 75 volts on the cathode-key
> >> >> circuit.
> >> >>
> >> >> And, for Howard #3, the P2000CW was the accessible predecessor of the
> >> >> LDG
> >> >> talking wattmeter, except its output was in CW and considerably more
> >> >> accurate.
> >> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> >> From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> >> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 3:15 PM
> >> >> Subject: Re: Monitoring our CW Signal with Older Rigs
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>> Mike:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> It's all coming back to me now.. Your first approach is exactly how
> >> >>> I
> >> >>> monitored my CW note when transmitting. I had an old rock-bound
> >> >>> Heath
> >> >>> Kit
> >> >>> DX35 transmitter, and a Lafayette receiver whose model number I
> >> >>> forget,
> >> >>> and
> >> >>> made many CW qsos that way back in the day.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Thanks for jogging my memory here.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
> >> >>>
> >> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >> >>> From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> >>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> >>> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 2:49 PM
> >> >>> Subject: Monitoring our CW Signal with Older Rigs
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> For Tom, and anyone else who has become curious about this subject
> >> >>>> after hearing that amazing combination of chirp and very raw note
> >> >>>> that
> >> >>>> I posted:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Until Novice operators could use the full featured rigs such as the
> >> >>>> Kenwood TS520 and Yaesu FT101, the way most of us monitored our CW
> >> >>>> signal as Novices was to simply not mute the receiver, and back the
> >> >>>> RF
> >> >>>> gain control down to a very low setting when transmitting. Thus, we
> >> >>>> heard our transmitter more or less as it sounded to everybody else.
> >> >>>> I
> >> >>>> say more or less because if you happened to have a ground loop, or
> >> >>>> let
> >> >>>> your receiver get overloaded by your transmitted signal, you could
> >> >>>> get
> >> >>>> some false indications that were really problems which were local to
> >> >>>> your shack, and were not actually being transmitted for the rest of
> >> >>>> the world to hear.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> The Heath HW16 Novice transceiver had a built in side tone for
> >> >>>> monitoring purposes, but that side tone sounded pretty awful. To
> >> >>>> clean
> >> >>>> up that problem, many people simply removed the neon bulb from the
> >> >>>> side tone circuit, and were then able to monitor the HW16
> >> >>>> transmitter
> >> >>>> through the receiver. This also made it easier to get the receiver
> >> >>>> and
> >> >>>> transmitter on the same frequency.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> There were also numerous circuits which were designed specifically
> >> >>>> as
> >> >>>> external CW monitors. My mention of finding one of those solid state
> >> >>>> ice cube size monitors from the late 1960s a few months ago prompted
> >> >>>> a
> >> >>>> few messages on this list about various monitor circuits.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Mike Duke, K5XU
> >> >>>> American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
> >> >>>>
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