[Elecraft] that Drake or Collins "sound"

[Brett gazdzinski]

On the kwm2 and kwm2a, cw was an afterthought, and done
in a poor way. I think they used audio tones into the mike circuit
for CW, and  maybe the ssb filter?

I don't think those rigs were great CW radios.

Not sure about the drake 2b, the r4c I had was very nice for its
age, and with some mods can be as good as the modern stuff I hear.
Mine sounded quite nice stock, under normal conditions anyway.

I don't suppose any of the old stuff would be any good in any
contest, but maybe some of it sounded much better on all modes.

Not everyone contests or goes after rare DX, but everyone
seems to be stuck with poor sounding radios these days,
because they are built for contests, or for general coverage
from 50KHz to 50MHz, or use noisy parts, or poor designs, 
or whatever....

Brett
N2DTS