[Boatanchors] In defense of Eldico

[Greg Mijal]

That's odd.
 The Eldico stuff  I see seems to be built pretty well.  There's one Eldico 
I know well.  It's the SSB 100F ssb transmitter.  I use one in my shack 
along with a Heathkit SB 303 on 20m ssb.  I usually check it into the Sunday 
nets.  The SSB 100F is so old it has 11 meters on the band switch!  The 
material and construction is as good as any Collins gear from that period - 
late 1950's.  A couple of things that make this Eldico interesting is the 
low frequency crystal filter ssb generation and the ease of removing the vfo 
for service.  The  built in signal scope is handy to set microphone levels 
too.
This rig wasn't part of the MARS effort back then, it's a ham transmitter 
and a good example of a quality rig.
Edsel? no way!
73's
Greg
WA7LYO
Kinston NC
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Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Looking for Eldico TR75-TV


> I'm curioius as to why all the sudden interest in Eldico stuff.  My 
> personal
> recollection of them is hardly flattering to say the least.  We had one of
> their knock-off copies of the S-Line at the AF Mars station at LSU in the 
> early
> 60's.  The BC-610-E and S-76 we also had worked far better.  And in the 
> 70's,
> an AF retireee who was one of those who had to try to keep them working 
> said
> that throughout the AF they were know as El-Deecko.  That's bastardized 
> Tex-Mex
> for the usually hidden male appendage.  Maybe it's the Edsel collector
> syndrome.  :-)
>
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