[Boatanchors] new tuning eye for old radios?

[AI2Q]

Gosh, a 6E5 "magic eye" tube can be hooked up with just two or three resistors and a small B+ supply. This seems like a nifty product, but also seems outrageously priced---even if the 6E5 tubes are not that common any more!

Vy 73, AI2Q, Alex in Maine  QRP-L #687
http://users.adelphia.net/~alexmm/ai2q.htm

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ray, W2EC 
  To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 9:26 AM
  Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] new tuning eye for old radios?


  Reminds me of the advertisments "way back when" about the new "S-Meters" 
  and how they were so much better than the old "Tuning-eye". Check out 
  old issues (30's-40's) of the ARRL Handbook on how to make your own.

  Also kinda like the advertisements we see now on TV and in magazines for 
  the "Newest breakthru in watch technology! A Wrist Watch that never 
  needs batteries!!!, Stays wound by the simple movement of your arm!!!"

  Amazing how things come around.

  73, Ray  W2EC