[CW] TWENTY EACH - 80M & 40M CW BAND CRYSTAL COLLECTION ON EBAY

[Donald Chester]

I doubt there are enough QRPers on the air to be using all the surviving ham band crystals.

 

And,  not all homebrew crystal controlled rigs are little novelty jobs built on a cat-food tin. Some of the AM phone guys run a full gallon with a crystal controlled transmitter. Occasionally you might run into someone on CW running 100 watts or more with a homebrew crystal controlled transmitter.

 

But  still, the number of hams who use direct straight-through crystal control are a tiny minority, just as, unfortunately, are those using a transmitter home built from scratch.  In any case, way too few on the air to have essentially bought up all  the ham band crystals still in existence. I suspect they have been grabbed by a sub-set of hoarders, possibly going overseas.

 

Speaking of homebrew, it is now extremely rare, except maybe for the QRPers, to hear ANYONE on CW using a homebrew built-from-scratch transmitter.  Mine is homebrew, running a pair of triode tubes in class-C.  Almost inevitably when I operate CW, the other op tells me this is the first time in a long time he has contacted anyone using a homebrew rig and sometimes even a transmitter running class-C.  I doubt most of to-day’s hams even know what a class-C final is.  Most of the homebrew rigs on the air these days are on AM phone.

 

 

Don k4kyv

 

 

 

From: k1vv at comcast.net [mailto:k1vv at comcast.net] 



 

Over the years ....The QRPers and the home brewers have bought up CW xtals .... we have quite a number of them ...  Tuna Tin ... Mighty 4 watter  ..6L6 .... etc ..

 

There is nothing quite like having a QSO using a non-kit rig that you have built yourself .....

 

Whitey  K1VV



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