KB1KIL: I still listen to it all the time.I really like the warmth it
generates in
the shack on a cold winters night.

What's that old saying about real radios glow in the dark? G

My experience with military and marine gear, from WWII to date, has been that a
properly working tube type miltary radio had always performed better than any
solid state radio.

I even had great success with the receiver in a Heath HW-101 transceiver, after
I put in a carbon deposit resistor upgrade and a feedback tickler to make the
RF gain-controlled stage become narrower in band width as the gain was turned
up for weak ssb signals.

73,
Bill, K5BY