[Elecraft] tube based kit

Sat Sep 28 13:17:00 2002

NO: why wd anyone in their right mind want fragile, large, 
unreliable, dangerous, powerhungry devices?

YES:
  1.
There's nothing prettier than a VR-150 glowing in the dark unless 
it's an 813. Octal sockets are best.
2.
  I learned electronics in terms of voltage amplifiers [tubes] and 
current amplifiers still seem strange to me.

73
the other eric

Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:02:53 -0700
From: Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft <[email protected]>
Organization: Elecraft
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Any AM detecting go'en on?

Hmmm... should we offer a tube based kit? ;*)

73, Eric   WA6HHQ
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Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
>
>  Now you want real AM and a CW receiver that will show you a REAL "zero
>  beat" as you tune through the signal? I've got a nice homebrew Superhet
>  with a regenerative  detector in it. Has tubes no less -- yet it runs
>  off a 12-volt station supply. QST tells me the construction article is
>  due for publication sometime this winter.
>
>  Ron AC7AC
>  K2 # 1289

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Eric Manning   VA7DZ VE3DPV
K2 #2561 "Pauline"