[Boatanchors] Drake Gear Used at Mobile Radio - WLO

[w8au at sssnet.com]

At 04:16 PM 7/18/2013, Bill Stewart wrote:
>Good Afternoon, I was doing some web surfing and 
>ran across a scan of an undated leaflet from 
>coastal station WLO (Mobile Radio). It shows 
>several operator positions, presumably CW, and 
>maybe others, using Drake T4X/R4 (maybe other 
>Drake rigs as well)Â type xmtr/rcvrs. Guess they 
>knew good gear. I had not expected to see 
>that...thought most of those stns would have 
>used the Watkins-Johnsons, 51J3s, R390s type 
>rcvrs and special commercial type xmtrs.

Rene Stiegler,  K4EDX, owner, has been a ham for many decades,
and worked at WLO as a teenager.   He obviously knows good equipment.

If you're in the vicinity any day, knock on the 
door and get invited in for coffee
and a visit.   I'm sure the welcome mat is still out.

Perry  w8au