[Boatanchors] 17 METERS

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

Don't forget the Eldico S-Line "clones."

I imagine that most of the pi-network
transmitters of the 50s and 60s also
have enough tuning range to work with
appropriate crystals. You might have to
use 6 MHz crystals and triple to get to
18 MHz. Think Eico, Heath, Johnson, and
a lot of others.

Match to the antenna? We didn't need
no steenkin' tuners back then. Hooked
random end-fed wire into the SO-239 -
- if you were lucky enough to have had
something beyond a wing nut on a feed-
through insulator or even a Fahnstock
clip for antenna connector - - and just
got on the air.

Of course of few of us also got a "pink
ticket" or two along the way. That was
just all in a part of growing up "ham"
back in those days.

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* 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 *
* (Since 30 Nov 53) *
* Oklahoma City, OK *
* USAF, Ret (61-81) *
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> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 17:03:48 -0400
> From: yash at aol.com
> Subject: [Boatanchors] 17 METERS
> 
> 
> Is there any boat anchors,beside the drake 4 line and the collins S-line and KWM-2 that will function on 17 meters with just a crystal change. 
> dale wt4t