[Boatanchors] Galaxy V

[Robert Nickels]

On 9/12/2016 5:17 AM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
> You probably have to be careful even just tuning it up.

As with all sweep tube rigs, you did.  A lot of Galaxy Vs were on the 
air in the late 60s when I first was licensed in Nebraska because WRL 
was the nearest ham store and offered good trade-ins for all that old AM 
junk ;-)   More than once I remember guys complaining that their finals 
"went south" the first time they tried tuning their new transceiver 
up.   But sweep tubes were used because they were cheap - the 1967 B-A 
catalog shows the 6HF5 at $1.64 each vs. $4.35 for a 6146.

Galaxy also made a linear amplifier, the model 2000, that used 10 6HF5 
sweep tubes in parallel.  I knew a kid in Lincoln (spoiled brat would be 
a fair description) who had one and wrecked it the first time he tuned 
it up (which I had the dubious pleasure of hearing on the air) by keying 
it down for several minutes with the wrong band selected, as he later 
confessed.   But he blamed the failure on his father for "being too 
cheap to by him the Collins equipment that he wanted".    Yes, really!

73, Bob W9RAN