[Elecraft] Elecraft Product Ideas

[thom2 at att.net]

This is definately OT, but regarding the cost of a 6146, when I was a teenager a 6146 (for my DX-60)cost a about 6 bucks.  Taking a teenage girl out on a Saturday night also cost about 6 bucks back then.  So I had a choice...I won't tell you what my decision was, however, on another thread here a guy posted that his (blond and attractive) wife was trying to buy him a new rig, but she couldn't get near the Elecraft booth with all the 'nerds' hanging out there...maybe I made the wrong choice on how to spend that 6 bucks.

Tom
WB2QDG
K2 1103

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net>
> 
> On May 23, 2006, at 4:24 PM, N2EY at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > In a message dated 5/23/06 11:47:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
> > ebjr at i-55.com
> > writes:
> >
> >
> >> Don't use 6146's!  two Raytheon 4D32's would do the job much  
> >> better.  They
> >> are
> >> as cheap as 6146's now.
> >>
> >
> > Actually, one 4D32 has almost the power rating of two 6146s. Two  
> > 4D32s could
> > probably due 200W easy.
> >
> 
> I recall that the 4D32 was pretty expensive back in the 1950s, while  
> 6146s were much cheaper.  Things change.  The Johnson Viking I (4D32)  
> was rated at 150W input (CW) and the Viking II (2x6146) was rated at  
> 180 watts input.  My first kit was a Viking II plus external VFO  
> (1953).   Three 6146s would probably also do 200W output.  I would  
> suggest that anyone building a rig with either tube purchase several  
> spares while they are still available.
> 
> 73 - Bob, N7XY
> 
> 
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