[R-390] Interesting receiver

[Transmaster]

No Lysco pre-dates the Swine by 5 or 6 years, maybe Swine is where the
engineers from Lysco went when it folded tents.

                                                 Ken

On 10/23/06, mikea <mikea at mikea.ath.cx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 06:44:51PM -0600, Transmaster wrote:
> > Actually the handle is Transmaster which is taken from the Lysco 600
> > Transmaster transmitter I have in my collection.  Despite the imposing
> > name the Transmaster is one of the biggest turkeys ever pushed on a CW
> > operator.  It is a single 807 transmitter of roughly 25 watts output.
> > Because of awful voltage regulation it is chirpy and very drifty.  In
> > fact in order to keep this piece of junk in the receiving parties
> > bandpass you could not key it any faster then 6 wpm. I could fix it by
> > adding better voltage regulation but I have other transmitters which
> > work and are properly engineered so it is a display piece.
> >
> > Trainmaster is a cool handle which, of course, is free for the taking.
>
> So, Lysco is a second label from Swan, then?
>
> <G,D, & R>
>
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