[Milsurplus] Conar and a '68 Dodge Charger

[Charlie L.]

Not to derail too far off the milsurp tag line, the Conar 400 was the first
'commercial' TX I owned.  I had a one tube single band TX copied out of the
ARRL's License Manual, and I am thinking as many things that were in QST
and the Handbook way back when, some fellow copied, in this case NRI,  the
circuit and started making them for sale.  My Dad was taking an NRI course
on appliance repair, and actually opened a shop and did well.  How well
that would do in today's throw away, designed to not be fixed world, is
pretty obvious.  The Conar set was in their catalog with their scope,
appliance tester, TV and other stuff related to their  correspondence
courses.  The Conar had 3 band switched bands, and I had a paper route, so
I bought the pair, and the receiver was my first superhet, graduating up
from a regen Lafayette Explor-Air.  Like the Ameco AC-1, the Conar twins
had a time where they were worth their weight in gold.  I sold that first
set for a few bucks around 1976, just like my '68 Dodge Charger with Hurst
shifter and Krager mags in 1976 for $400, an identical car in every detail
that sold just a few years later for $160,000 at a Barrtett Jackson
auction.  A good friend, K4VWD(SK)  gave me a set of Conar twins 10 years
ago, but nobody has given me a '68 Charger.  My only OO report, for chirp,
came from that 400 on 15 meters.

Charlie, W4MEC in NC
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