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Originally Posted by d-null
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 |
I just got that image from Photobucket to show a good key because Dad is out of town and his shack is locked up and I'm not about to go in there when he's gone. He collects keys and has like over 250 different models. He has some old marine stuff as well as weirdness like a DeForest Audion Vacuum Tube in the box and even an Atwater-Kent Model 10. He tells of asking Radio SWAN for a QSL card and having the FCC or some kind of guys in black turn up at his parent's house asking a lot of questions but he got the card. Still has a 1KW linear though, which will dim all the lights if he runs it.