But there is some news since I would have or may have done that...Here now:
-- IC-706 MK II (acquired within the last few months - very sweet radio)
-- KWM-1 (haven't had it powered up yet - also just acquired)
-- TS430S
-- FT-101EE
-- IC-V80 (Thanks, Fossil, for sending me to AES that day last August - it's a great little HT! Didn't know I needed one.)
-- HTX-245 (Radio Shack 144/440 HT)
-- Tempo S2 (220 HT)
-- Tempo S1 (144 HT not functioning - freq synth apparently went freaky)
-- IC-02AT (anybody know how to replace the SQ pot on this or if it can be?)
-- SX-42
I use portable antennae:
-- trap 80/40 inv V for HF
-- Tram 1180 magmount for 144/440
-- Maspro 5 el 2m beam
-- Larsen 2m Magmount
Was reading a QST from last year that I hadn't finished with and saw a picture of a BC-348 receiver in use BEFORE it was surplus. My high school radio club had one of those - BC-348Q to be exact. Haven't seen one before or since.
The transmitter at the high school station was a Harvey-Wells TBS-50C. The TBS-50 line (A thru D) was probably the last and maybe the first commercially made transmitter that covered 160 thru 2 meters until the IC-706! Now that I have a '706 I find it intriguing that both radios have/had a separate output jack for 2 meters (and 440 on the '706). The TBS-50's was an RCA jack on the top - recessed behind a hole in the cabinet - in order to bypass parts of the Pi network that weren't needed for 2 meters allowing use of a quarter wave or other size whip antenna sticking out the top! I suppose the RCA plug was optional if the whip was close to the correct diameter. I think I recall the RCA was a closed circuit jack. Clever arrangement that.
I wish. That is one awesome looking radio!!
