[Hallicrafters] BA's at Field Day

[Paul Kraemer]

I'll take my SX-101 and CE 20A / 458vfo and linear amp du jour any day over 
the rice boxes with no knobs.
Paul K0UYA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Thompson" <thompson at mindspring.com>
To: <Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>; "Old Tube Radios" 
<boatanchors at theporch.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] BA's at Field Day


> It was not too long ago that boatanchors were the mainstay of field day
> operations.  We had a long history at W5KHB (Old Natchez ARC) of BA's and
> mini Ba's.
>
> In 1957 we had a NC-300 and DX-100 on 10/80 and a pair of Gonset twins. 
> The
> Gonset twins continued for years until replaced with Heath SB-100
> tranceivers.  One year we made over 700 15 meter AM QSOs on the twins 
> owned
> by W5KHB.
>
> I ran the 20 meter position for several years and the rigs were a
> Ranger/HQ-110, KWM-1, Eldico SSB-100 and HQ-170, and finally the
> Hallicrafters twins (SX-117 and HT-44). We made between 500 and 800 QSOs 
> on
> phone and nearly 400 on CW on a regular basis.  The KWM-1 was borrowed and
> we found that it did not cover the newly expanded 20 meter band (14.3 to
> 14.350) in 1960.  We still made 600 SSB and 300 CW QSOs to a Gonset Bantum 
> 2
> el beam.  Bet that is an antenna no one has heard of.  Gonset made 
> antennas
> for a number of years including a 2 and 3 el. tri-bander.  I had the 3 el
> version at home.
>
> Operating is too easy now.  You just talk or keyboard without ever tuning
> the transmitter or peaking the antenna on the receiver.
>
> Hope everyone had fun and did not get too hot or wet.
>
> 73 Dave K4JRB
>
>
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