Tube rigs

From W7DTG

5/5/2008 11:37:32 AM (0 comments) Add Comment

Been a while since I posted anything new, so I thought I would catch up a bit on the tube gear.

Been trying to generate 10m activity in this area, and using the tube gear on the 10m band, which isn't easy sometimes. The tube gear can be a bit finicky at times. For instance, the Drake T4XC and R4C can only do abt 50w output on that band. not sure why, since on 15-20-40 and 80M I can get up to 150W output. Going to fire up the old Swan-350 in the next day or 2 and see what it will do. if I remember correctly, it was a bit shy on 10m also.

Also tossing the idea around abt trading off some of this tube gear for an MFJ antenna analyzer. I do a lot of wire antenna construction out here, and that would help tremendously. Still love the old tube gear, nothing with beat the sound of the audio from one. I can listen to them all day long, as compared with my Kenwood TS570 or 440Sat radio's.

Maybe i will do some more horse trading, and what sort of other vintage gear I can acquire. Sort of liked the Swan-350, so who knows ?

Theron