[Milsurplus] Powering the TBW-4

[Mark K3MSB]

To each his own;  I don't consider a slight chip to be a "bad sounding
signaal".   Note I said "slight" and I expect a T9 to go with it.

It's amazing that a lot of hams don't know the difference to send 559C
instead of 555.......

Mark K3MSB


On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 11:56 AM Ken Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
wrote:

> On 21 Aug 2024 at 10:40, Mark K3MSB wrote:
>
> >
> > My TBW-5 had a nice chirp to it and I received numerous nice comments
> > about it.
> >
> > Personally, I can't see why some people want their old radios to sound
> > like a modern YaeWoodCom.   When I'm trolling the bands I'll answer
> > a CQ from a station with a chirp before one without!
> >
> > YMMVAPW....
> >
> > Mark K3MSB
>
> Although I agree with you, in principle, I also firmly believe that our
> old gear can sound just as
> "perfect" as the modern crap.
>
> For instance, by properly working with a pair of push-pull 211s (VT-4Cs)
> in a self-excited
> power oscillator in a TPTG or TNT configuration, one can make it sound so
> good that
> modern operators cannot tell the difference.
>
> A good friend of mine achieved DXCC with such a rig, and when he told the
> stations he
> worked what rig he was using they always expressed extreme surprise.
>
> Almost all "modern" hams presume that the old gear output terrible
> signals, when that is most
> assuredly NOT the case!!
>
> In fact, it rather irritates me when these rather snotty un-educated
> moderns believe such
> garbage about our old gear and us old operators..
>
> To me, it is a matter of pride to use old gear and adjust it so that
> moderns cannot even tell it
> is OLD until I tell them.
>
> There is really no excuse for outputting a bad sounding signal when with a
> little care it can be
> made to sound perfect.
>
> Ken W7EKB
>
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