[Drake] Admin: Closing the list

[Lee]

Should have said 2-NT and not NT-2  !

Lee


On 7/9/2017 6:06 PM, Lee wrote:
> When I was a Novice back in 1953/54 I used an Eldico TR-75 as my main 
> transmitter.  (My other transmitters were an Eagle kit made by Gross 
> Radio of NYC.  It was discontinued and the remaining units sold by 
> Burstein-Applebee out of Kansas City.  Later Philmore took up an 
> almost exact design and sold it as their Novice transmitter NT-200.  
> To this day I have a deep love for the Philmore NT-200. You can still 
> build them up as a clone.  It's a much better design then the single 
> tube Ameco AC-1 Novice Transmitter.  The NT-200 not only has the 
> oscillator but a 6L6 amplifier behind the oscillator. I also had a 
> home made slat board transmitter made from plans out of Boy's Life 
> Magazine.)  I thought I was King of the Hill running my Eldico TR-75TV 
> with an 807 final running 75 watts input.  The Eldico was large, had a 
> steel chassis with a sawing machine cover or lid. The thing was almost 
> entirely made out of WW2 surplus parts.  I didn't think of it at the 
> time but the dual link coupled output tank circuit was weird and made 
> that way to suppress TVI.  Or at least that is what Eldico said.
>
> Today with a collection of old ham gear including a sub collection of 
> old Novice gear, I have come to appreciate the following Novice 
> transmitters.  They are the Heathkit DX-60, the Eico 720, and the 
> Drake 2-NT.  Those are some really nice Novice transmitters.  No 
> longer is the Eldico TR-75TV King of the Hill in my estimation. They 
> are fairly small, fairly light weight, good design, and easy to work 
> upon.  They all run an easy 75 watts input.  Almost all the parts can 
> still be purchased on the open market.  If anyone is thinking of 
> reliving the past, you might think of setting up a Drake Novice 
> station using a NT-2 transmitter and 2C receiver. Talk to the CW QRP 
> crowd as well as the guys on between 7100-7125 khz using old Novice rigs.
>
> Lee, w0vt
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