[Boatanchors] What other CW-SSB transceivers are all-tube - like the Drake TR-3?

manualman at juno.com manualman at juno.com
Fri Jan 17 02:12:17 EST 2025


Transceivers first came out in the 1920's. 
Collins KWM-2, KWM-2A, Heathkit had a bunch of early HW models. Military
had a number of transceivers that included some of the HF bands.
If it's that important to you, you can Google specific amateur HF
transceiver models from the 60's which some most likely would be all tube
models and/or pull up their schematics to verify "all tube".

Pete, wa2cwa


On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:38:34 -0500 David Colburn <qrv at kd4e.com> writes:
> We're having tons of trouble getting my TR-3 to play nicely.
> 
> I'm curious as to what other 80-10m transceivers are truly 100% 
> tubes.
> 
> The Swan 350 comes close, but has a 2N706 VFO.
> 
> Any others, please?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David KD4E



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