Yes, real radios glow in the dark, but today's fake radios have better[/color]
specs
and DO perform better. My old line through 60 years included BC-312, a
couple HROs, HQ-129X, NC-125, SX-100, GPR-90, 51J-4, some homebrew, and
some
I don't recall, but I like my R71A better than all of them.

Nostalgia looks great on a shelf.

A 300W plate modulated signal using an old D-104 mike on 75M still sounds
great.

Don



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most of the better old tube receivers can still copy weak sig
on 80 or 40 cw than most of the so called modern
dc to daylight solid state radios

you can keep the R71A
I will keep using my 75S 3, 2A, 2B, NC 183D, HRO 5RA 1, R 390A

and if nostalgia realy looks best on the shelf
guess 300watts class b plate mod am rig should
also be set aside for modern JA rice box radios

lets see now
you object to lake eire swing and chirp
but like class b plate mod AM on 75 meters

sure sounds like the pot calling the kettle black to me

de Mac w8znx

On 12/10/05 1:57 PM, in article , "de Mac"
wrote:

(snip)

and if nostalgia realy looks best on the shelf
guess 300watts class b plate mod am rig should
also be set aside for modern JA rice box radios

I like my rice box rig, too. All things considered, it's better than all
the toob rigs I've bought and built.


lets see now
you object to lake eire swing and chirp
but like class b plate mod AM on 75 meters

Apples and oranges, but good try.....


sure sounds like the pot calling the kettle black to me

de Mac w8znx


By the way, you really should learn to post correctly.

Don

I wouldn't be surprised to see MFJ or one of the other manufacturers
to come out with a 'Chirp Inserter -- to make you sound like a real ham'

Irv VE6BP
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I wouldn't be surprised to see MFJ or one of the other manufacturers
to come out with a 'Chirp Inserter -- to make you sound like a real ham'

Irv VE6BP

1965 ...... after several weeks of collecting junk parts ...... it was ready
.....my transmitter ... didn't have a 6L6 but did have a 6F6 if I remember
..... hook her up to a sloping 40 meter dipole .....2 weeks later and after
hundreds of CQs ....an answer from another novice about 5 miles away
who stated my signal was very poor and raspy ....then to my amazement the
next day .....a postcard from an OO (official observer ARRL) in Oregon.
..... with the same information ....I still have that card somewhere as
proof that the old Pop Electronics rig did get out ...... Yep the magic was
there.

God bless and Merry Christmas all ... Tom Popovic KI3R Belle Vernon PA