Hi Albert.  I got my Novice license in 1973 and Advanced in 1974.  
We could have worked but I have no idea where my old braille log 
might be if it is anywhere so have no way to check on that.  I 
live in Martinez about 40 or so miles NE of San Francisco.  Jim 
WA6EKS

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Albert Sanchez <[log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date sent: Fri, 24 May 2013 17:05:22 -0400
Subject: Re: Drake Tr-4

Hi Jim
I had the Webster band spanner for the mobile antenna.  I was 
living in
Washington State at the time--maybe we worked each other 
somewhere between
1966 and 1975.
Albert S., WA7FXB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Gammon" <[log in to unmask]
To: <[log in to unmask]
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: Drake Tr-4


 Hi Albert, yes, I had the same speaker cabinet with the AC 
supply
 in it.  Also had the DC supply and ran the rig from my mom's VW
 bug with a hussler antenna on the fender.  Ran CW as a novice
 from the car.  Pretty cramped setup with the rig between my feet
 on the floor.  Glad we never got in an accident when the rig was
 in the car.  I'd probably still be stuck in there! Later, I got 
a
 Drake SPR-4 receiver which was really terrific.  I regret having
 to sell all that stuff but I had to pay for stuff for our kid 
who
 was young and I wasn't very active then so couldn't rationalize
 keeping it back then.  Jim WA6EKS

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: Albert Sanchez <[log in to unmask]
 To: [log in to unmask]
 Date sent: Fri, 24 May 2013 16:05:09 -0400
 Subject: Re: Drake Tr-4

 Hi Jim,
 What a wonderful rig the TR-4 was; I had the matching remote
 VFO/speaker
 cabinet into which you could slide the AC4 power supply.  Also
 had the rig
 mobile in my dad's truck/camper.  I also had dots at the 5Khz
 marks.
 Albert S., WA7FXB
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Jim Gammon" <[log in to unmask]
 To: <[log in to unmask]
 Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 2:36 PM
 Subject: Drake Tr-4


 When I had my Drake Tr-4 I had a ham friend mark the bezel every
 5 KHZ with smaller dots.  Those Drake rigs had great linear
 tuning across the bands.  Pretty good for back in the 70's.  I
 also had an audible tuner that I still have, but it no longer
 functions.  That was hooked into a cheap Radio Shack SWR meter
 and I could tune for the highest tone out of the audio box.  Jim
 WA6EKS

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: Howard Kaufman <[log in to unmask]
 To: [log in to unmask]
 Date sent: Fri, 24 May 2013 06:44:18 -0500
 Subject: acessible radios

 All in the ear of the beholder.
 I started out with a johnson valiant.  I tuned the transmitter
 by
 pressing
 my ear to the metal case, and listening for the dip in hum.  I
 tuned the
 grid by listening to the click of the meter needle.  Later I
 counted the
 dial turns on the drake radios.  Since each turn was 25 khz, you
 could get
 with in 2 khz or so quite easilly.  I have wondered if a neon
 light coupled
 to a feed line could be read by an audible light probe.  How
 good
 would
 maximum brightness be?  Interesting experiment.  Then in the
 late
 80's I
 bought a triton 4 and found the speech box that tentec made for
 it.  I
 thought I had died and gone to heaven.
 I have an Omni D and still have that box.  That's a backup
 radio.
 We've come a long way.
 H T Kaufman MSW LCSW
 Adaptive Technology Instructor