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Originally Posted by SallyRand
No shit!
I'd like to see Davy try to erect an emergency antenna on the sailboat after a storm has taken down the permanent one. Can you imagine the outputs disappearing in a puff of smoke due to the antenna not being tuned properly?
Davy nees to learn to run one of these:
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nice looking old style "bug", I only had a straight key when I started... is that a TenTec linear amplifier or an antenna tuner?
sadly, internet and computers have killed the romance years of ham radio, the smell of tubes heating up in a high powered transmitter, and different crackling sounds coming through unexpectedly as sunspot cycles and other atmospheric phenomen changed unexpectedly
some of the cold war oddities such as the russian woodpecker were cool thinking back to it now