[AMRadio] Dow Key style relays

[Jim Wilhite]

Charlie, someone still makes Dow Key style relays.  But it is up there 
high on the cost list today like years past.  The last time I saw them 
on the website they were near $600.

Kind of makes on grin, doesn't it?

Jim
S5JO


----- Original Message ----- 
>I guess as a new novice in the 60's, the Dow Key relay was up there 
>with Drake and Collins of wants.  I used a toggle switch at first, then 
>a rotary to gain some extra contacts to mute the RX.  In my real world 
>of work, when I had hundreds of Dow Key type coaxial relays to 
>maintain, I came to loathe them.  The one or two that I eventually 
>picked up and used, went to the junk box and a plain ol' open frame in 
>a box with connectors put in service.  That is basically bullet proof.
>
> Charlie, W4MEC in NC