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Old January 23rd 16, 08:58 AM posted to uk.radio.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.equipment
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Default A historical regret.

On 23/01/2016 08:31, Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Jim GM4DHJ ...
writes
On 22/01/2016 22:54, gareth wrote:
It is my regret that I have very little in the way of valve (tube for
the
Yanks)
equipment, despite having had the seeds of interest sown 54 years ago
at age
11.

It saddens me when I think of the valved RXs that I once had and then
let
go, R210, R1475, HRO,
R1155, RA17 and for TX, KW Vanguard, FT101E (twice), Codar AT5,
Sommerkamp
747.

Still, tomorrow I hope to go a little way to correcting the bias by
picking
up an FT200
and an Eddystone 640!

I do havve sitting on the shelf a Trio 830s, though, although hidden
behind
thepile of QRP rigs.




s640 was my first rx....still got one ....


The R107 was my first RX - bought in 1958 for 13 pounds 10 shillings,
plus 1 pound 10 shillings carriage. I remember the evening it arrived.
I've still got it - on the desk, about 3 ' away from me. [Well, I have
to use something to keep the desk from floating in the air.]


I got my s640 replacement at a rally in Norfolk? ....much better than
the one I had .....

https://www.photobox.co.uk/my/photo?..._id=3198435528

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