Through most of the 1960's, there was a bi-monthly print magazine called "Electronics Illustrated." It covered a variety of electronics hobby areas, much like Popular Communications does today. One of the Amateur Radio projects from that magazine was a single tube transmitter, much like the 6L6 that Ron described. This one used a 50C5 tube, which could be had from almost any discarded AM broadcast radio. A friend in town who got his Novice license about 6 months ahead of me built that little rig, and my brother and I were collecting the parts to build one for me as well. One day my friend called and said: "Don't build that transmitter!." When I asked why, he said: "Because I just got a notice from an Official Observer who said I was 30 DB over S9 in Massachusetts, 3 KHZ above the top end of 20 meters." Now think about that report for a minute. He was running a whole 3, maybe 4 watts output on 40 meters into a 40 meter dipole, and he never got that strong a report from anybody he talked with in the 40 meter novice band. Anyway, he scrapped that transmitter, and got a Globe Scout. My dad bought me a Viking Ranger a short time later, just before I took the Novice exam. Mike Duke, K5XU American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs