"Lars E. Pettersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the drakelist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 01:40, Ron Baker wrote: > Jim, the TR5 is a fine radio and works well and was to be the solid state > replacement for the TR4 series. I think the reason for the high value > is its a rare item to find. Drake only manufactured 517 units, as > compared to around 3000 or more TR7's.
Shouldn't that be around 13000 TR7's? Judging from the serial numbers of the TR7's? > Of those 517 TR5's built we believe a large number of them > (estimated around 200 units) were lost as sea while being shipped to > South America. Interesting! Didn't know that. Have both a TR7/R7 and a TR5/RV7, both stations work very well. 73 de Lars, sm6rpz -- Lars E. Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sm6rpz.se/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Behalf of "Lars E. Pettersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Submissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe drakelist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Zerobeat Web Page: http://www.zerobeat.net Brought to you courtesy of TLCHost.net http://www.tlchost.net/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
