[EICO] Ecio 723 FINISHED

[Ken Kaplan]

Thanks George.
And thank you again for the manual pages. They really helped.

I'll post some pix of the complete setup soon.

Unfortunately, I did not have the cw experience as a novice. Got stuck 
on 2 meter am.

73
Ken WB2ART
www.wb2art.com



ks1u wrote:
> Ken:
>     Your comment about the view of the 723 just sitting there, really 
> hit home.  I still use mine occasionally, but even when I just look at 
> it on the shelf I get flashbacks to getting up at 3 or 4am in 1966, 
> being careful not to wake anyone else in the house, and trying to find 
> DX on the novice sections of 80 and 40 meters.  The light cast from the 
> EICO and my Hallicrafters receiver was enough to copy and read code 
> without the room lights on.  I can still remember the sound of the power 
> supply's slight buzz on key-down and the smell of the 6DQ6B during a 
> long QSO.
>     It's nice to know that others appreciate these simple pleasures, by 
> doing your rebuild you have guaranteed that another 723 will be around 
> for a long time to give future generations a glimpse of the past.
>     Thanks for sharing all of this with us.
> 
> George
>