[Boatanchors] SWEEP TUBES AND FPM 300S
Rob Atkinson
ranchorobbo at gmail.com
Mon Jan 11 13:04:59 EST 2016
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Dennis DuVall <duvallddennis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Overall, I would say sweep tubes were a great gift to the Ham community.
>
they were employed in cheap poorly constructed lightweight table top
SSB transceivers with crappy audio and drifting VFOs so hams who had
been brainwashed into hating AM could get on "phone" inexpensively.
If you like "vintage SSB" have at it, but these days I see no reason
why anyone would want to run such rigs even now, when there is the
KWS1 and 75A-4 or the CE phasing rigs available.
The sales job, or snow job, involved exaggerated power claims
specified in p.e.p. watts input.
This was no gift, or rather, if you think this was a gift, I'd hate to
see what you think of as being a consolation prize.
73
Rob
K5UJ
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