Dave Heil wrote in message ...
Brian Kelly wrote:


That's right, "William", I've got a modified 75A-3 which is about 51
years old, a 51S-1 which was produced in the late seventies and a
KWM-2A

NICE collection!

...and I saw a fairly priced 75A-4 at the Washington, PA hamfest this
morning. I resisted.

Woo-woo! Nice piece. What are they going for these days?

Ya hafta resist or ya go nuts. I've sworn to myself not to clutter
this place up with any boat anchors. None. Zero tolerance for boat
anchors around here. But then I spot the R4B and the 75S-3B again and
remember all the goodies I worked and all the fun I had with them and
start to crumble. I need a Boat Anchors Anonymous chapter to help me
deal with it but alas, no such thing . . .

No rig is perfect. The Orion is very, very close.

I stopped by Ten-Tec last year and looked at it, didn't buy it.

They still make 'em.

But David they don't come with antennas and somebody who knows how to
install antennas so that's the end of Silly Willy Beeper's Ten-tec
dream machine.

Ahhh! They have a "William" variant. The Orion is available with a
built-in antenna tuner. I didn't get that model.

Unless it can impedance-match his TV rabbit ears it wouldn't do much
for him. Maybe when he wises up and moves . .

. . . . I completely obliterated the
AM b'cast band for blocks around, the phone rang off the hook and Mom
not only terminated my Grand Experiment but almost terminated me too.
Again.

You actually disrupted the march around the breakfast table?

Yeah, how stupid was that?

My pre-ham
radio days were from Hinton, West Virginia with an old doorbell buzzer
and ten-volt transformer. I "worked" Bobby Hayth next door. We were
each using old BC/SW receivers in wooden cabinets but we could have used
any AM receiver on about any frequency at that distance.

Good show! I gotta wonder how many others have done these kinds of
stunts on their way into ham radio.

Let's just say
that the tuning wasn't at all critical. Something about decrement, heh
heh.

Welp the good news was that nobody needed cascaded INRAD filters to
find us . . ?

Dave K8MN

w3rv