[Qcwa] KON TIKI QUERY

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Of course, the older, very well know National receivers 
were the HRO series.  A very popular National receiver, 
probably a little earlier than the NC300, was the NC183D 
(I hope I got that right).  

The first National gear I owned was a NCX-3, my first 
commercially built SSB rig and I purchased it used in 
1964.  It had no built-in offset for CW, so it was 
almost impossible for two guys with the same transceiver 
to talk to one another.  I guess the engineers weren't 
hams or they would have thought of that.  Or the need to 
economize was too strong.  I nearly always used mine as 
a transmitter with a Hammarland receiver and an 
electronic TR switch built from the ARRL handbook.  

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.  I remember a Kon-
Tiki trip since I became a ham (in 1954), but the 
inquiry was no doubt about the original trip.

73,

John, K4BAI.