[Elecraft] K3 for SWL?

[Wes Stewart]

Why don't you just buy a10-tube superhet in a large walnut cabinet with a cloth 
speaker grille and an amber back-lighted circular dial driven by dial cord and 
ganged capacitors?  Maybe throw in a magic eye tube. :-)

On 2/1/2017 9:26 PM, Dauer, Edward wrote:
> I confess that what I am trying to recreate is the warm sound of a 10-tube supperhet in a large walnut cabinet with a cloth speaker grille and an amber back-lighted circular dial driven by dial cord and ganged capacitors while listening to a Radio Moscow announcer crow about Sputnik.  Or so I now fantasize about my early radio experiences in the 1950s.