[GreenKeys] OT Boat Anchor Receivers

[Jeffrey D Angus]

On 6/18/2014 9:33 PM, Ron Kolarik wrote:
> That page is just downright evil
Speaking of evil.... I'm on the phone with my buddy a couple of weeks
ago and he mentioned he just bought a Drake 2B receiver off of Craig's
List for $100.
<http://www.k4lrg.org/Projects/Magic_of_Boatanchors/image002.jpg>
For reasons of my own*, I told him, "You are NOT allowed to sell or get
rid of that radio. If you get tired of looking at it, I want it." To 
which he
replies, "Ok, I'll ship it to you Monday." ...Slight pause here for my
breathing to restart...."What? You just bought it." "yeah, but I already
have one, I bought it for the 2BQ Speaker/Q-Multiplier." "Oh, Ok..."

It showed up this Monday. Slippy dial cord, and the S-meter and crystal
calibrator didn't work.

The 100 KHz crystal was bad, I replaced it and it works just fine.
The bias control was way off. Setting it correctly, the S-meter works fine.
And lastly, the spring was in the wrong hole on the dial drum. That's
fixed too now.

*Reasons of my own. Around 1964 or so, my dad took me to the North
American Aviation Recreation Center. Obviously, I had heard about ham
radio and they had a club station. There on the operating desk was a
fairly new (less than three years old) Drake 2B receiver. The very first
communications radios I ever laid eyes on. I fell in love with the row of
red slide switches.

When I moved in with a friend around 1972, he had a Drake 2B and let
me use it when he bought new stuff.

So yes, in the words of Jimmy Carter, "I've had lust in my heart" for one
for the past 50 years. I'm happy now.

A couple of other "oldies but goodies" on the shelf here.
A Collins 51J3 (the model before the mechanical filters)
<http://www.dumortier-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Collins-51J-3-1.jpg>
I did a complete realignment of the PTO so it tracks properly now.
And a Hallicrafters SX-99 (With the correct R-45B speaker)
<http://radiopics.com/Hallicrafters/Photos/Hallicrafters_SX-99.jpg>
<http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8430/7605446842_7da0776dda.jpg>
Now the SX-99 isn't exactly a "real whizzo" radio, but I added a product
detector for CW/SSB operation and a 1 MHz calibrator to set the main
tuning dial accurately so the band spread dial is correct.

Jeff

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