[Milsurplus] Re: 19 set thread

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

When I lived in Montana, a ham friend of mine who was several 
years younger than I, had a WS-19 set which he used constantly 
back in around 1970. He did mostly CW on the HF bands with it 
and really liked it. He did not have the control boxes either and had 
done some small modifications to it to use it without them.

When I saw it I thought it was a really neat rig and wanted one. I 
still do but cannot afford it at this time.

It was looked upon by practically every other ham of my 
aquaintance of the time (except my "Elmer", Woody Davey 
W7CJB) as being useless junk, but he proved it to be really 
worthwhile and a fun rig to operate.

So there were some few hams who viewed the WS-19 as more 
than a boatanchor.

Ken Gordon W7EKB