Funny I should read this post tonight...I was just talking about my old ten
meter handheld with my wife; sold it years ago and wish I still had it
today. It was an AEA DX Handy. It operated both SSB and CW and offered
about 50 Khz (if I remember correctly) coverage each in two places on the
ten meter band. It used a couple of crystals swung the frequency about them
a bit. It put out 1 1/2 watts of RF. I worked my first HF contact with one
of these....Cincinnati to Salt Lake City (but cheated and was feeding the RF
into a low dipole). My favorite contact was operating the rig
"stock"...built in telescoping antenna, trailling a counterpoise behind me.
I was stand in the parking lot of a local grocery store and worked and East
German station on the day the wall came down. Unforgettable experience!
These radios are kinda rare now, although they were also marketed in Japan
under another name (Mizuno?) The Japanese company was the actual
manufacturer of the radio. There was also a version made for 6 meters.
Craig KB8FGC