"Brian Reay" wrote in message
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Jim, Evans has owned or owns a raft of commercial radios, inc: FT101,
F7?7,
FT221, FT817.... he has
bought homebrew equipment made by others but, as for actually building
radios, it seems to be vapour ware.
This is all supported by his own posts. He couldn't use the 101 due to not
having the manual, or some pages to
be exact, so wasn't able to tune the PA. Hard to believe I know but you
can
check the archive.

That's not true, as you well know. I chose not to tune it without the manual
as when I obtained it, it was in pristine condition desite being 30 years
old.
I had plenty of previous experience in tuning other TXs, starting with the
KW2000E that G3UOE had in my time there.

Why do you spend to much time in originating abusive material? Why not
contribute your technical expertise, such as your knowledge of Maxwell's
Equations?

No reason why a real radio amateur, a home brewer, should not also pick
up old rigs out of interest.