john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang
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You've come back from the dark side. Welcome to the light, Eddy!
:-)
73 and Merry Christmas
John K5MO
At 09:46 AM 12/23/2007, you wrote:
Good Morning All,
Well, I spent the better part of the day yesterday retrieving a set of
Drake Twins from a fellow Ham living some 2+ hours away from me (one
way!)...was the drive worth the bother...?
In a word, YES!
My initial impression of the receiver (a "first generation" all-tube R-4)
is VERY positive: I love the passband tuning feature, and that calibrated
main tuning knob --- in 1-KHz markers --- is clever, and effective. It's
also a very pleasing rig to the eye, and looks FB sitting next to its
matching T-4X transmitter.
I have no doubt whatsoever in my mind, that, had I known better back in
1983 --- when I stood "...at the crossroads" and took the quantum
technological leap from my Heathkit SB-400 & Hallicrafters S-77A, to a
brand new Yaesu FT-980 --- I would surely have shopped around for a good
used set of Twins then...
I was really racked with guilt about throwing my lot in with a
microprocessed technology that the FT-980 presented, having had the
ability of repairing anything & everything in my shack up to that
time...and, like a fool, I did not even consider the possibilities of
taking the Drake route, and instead, pondered the chances of buying a
good, used Collins S-line, instead, back then.
I ended-up passing the S-line by, because it did not incorporate 160-meters.
Well, it took some 24 years, alright, but an old wrong has been righted at
VE3CUI --- and I could not be happier with this self-presented Christmas
gift, I can assure you!
Merry Christmas to all, & my vy
~73!~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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