[Drake] New 2NT Owner, Soon to be 2C Owner

[Paul Ellis]

Scott,

Sounds like a very nice station you have going up.

I'm guessing that the big reason there was no VFO for the 2NT was that
Novices were strictly rockbound for transmitting back in those days.  Oh,
and you wanted SSB after you upgraded to General/Conditional you bought
something else like a T4XB. That's likely why there's a fixed crystal
socket on the side of the '4 line that pretty much looks like an
afterthought so Novices with the bucks to swing a 4 could operate legally!
:-O

I would have been bummed if I had to go rockbound on my Novice station
(Hallcrafters HT-37/Knight R-100).

73,
Paul
KAOJQF

> I just bought a Drake 2NT transmitter and it should be here next week.
> I've been wanting to put a Drake 2NT/2C station on the air for several
> years but just never got around to it.  I even bought a 2C a few years
> back for that station but I sold it last year while thinking "Nah I don't
> need a 2NT/2C station".  Now I'm looking for a nice 2C and 2CQ
> speaker/QMultiplier to finally put that station together :->>>>> What can
> I say....
>
> I'm planning to use an Eico 722 VFO with the 2NT.  That 722 is a stunning
> looker and should yield a beautiful late 1960's Novice station!  The VFO
> brings up a question.  I wonder why Drake never made a matching VFO for
> the 2NT.  A vfo would have been a natural. Drake certainly had the
> expertise and skills.  Because they didn't, I'm assuming that there
> weren't enough sales of the 2NT to justify the expense of developing a
> VFO.  I remember seeing the Drake 2C around 1969 so I figure the
> transmitter was out around then as well.  There was lots of Novice
> activity, so the missing VFO is a mystery to me.
>
> Is anyone on here actually using a 2NT/2C/2CQ on the air?   What VFO's are
> you using or are you using crystals?
>
> 73, Scott WA9WFA
> www.qsl.net/wa9wfa
>
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