[Boatanchors] Drake 2B General Coverage

[Drew P.]

Keith wrote:

"I agree with Bill, that the Drake 2B with the Q multiplier is one great
receiver. Someone else  mentioned an interest in getting it into some SWL
frequencies. Two problems here, the first is the cost of crystals. Used
rocks are going for 10-20 each. It doesn't take much math to figure the cost of crystals could than the cost of the receiver. Second problem is there is only  space for only a couple of extras. Awhile ago I came up with a cheap solution. Find an old crystal deck from an R-390A. It already contains most crystal to get all 3-15 meg coverage. And if you carefully mount it above the receiver, with a very short lead you can use the band switch on the crystal deck to select the desired crystal into the 2B."

I wonder if cheap microprocessor crystals could be used to soften some of the cost burden.

As nice as the Drake is, if I had an old R-390A crystal deck lying around. I'd get the rest of the R-390A to go with it and listen to SW with that instead.

Drew