[SignalOne] CX7A - Why am I doing this?

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Thanks for sharing a good story.  I think we've got the bandwidth.  Amazing 
parallel here.

Same boat (anchor), bought my CX-7A "guaranteed dead" at a hamfest a couple 
years ago. 

Similar mod, 4cx250, forced air, noisy fan bearings, but got the rig going in 
a few days, nothing major wrong (diodes, better lucky than smart in my case). 
 The fellow I bought it from had kept the heat sink :)

Wierd AC connector, homebrewed DC supply, homebrewed display board, green 
LEDS, RIT mod with wrong size knob (but the original owner kept the original knob 
:) :) all transistor locations fitted with pins to work as transistor 
sockets, Curtis keyer chip, God knows what else. If I'd understood at the time what I 
had on my hands, I really would have questioned my sanity.

Every time I turn it on, I expect it to smoke, but it just keeps chuggin 
along.

Every person that comes into the shack immediately wanders over to it - when 
the dual receive is flipped on they flip out.

Real radio guys seem to have cherished and modded these things way beyond 
what people would consider doing to an S-line or similar.  And with interesting 
results.

I had to have mine because I remember hearing a few out of California as a 
small tyke - first rigs with serious RF processing, what an amazing signal that 
was at the time.  And the QST teaser adds, and then the real ads, more fun.  
Way to go, ETO.  

No one could possibly blame ya for buying such an animal on E-Bay.  I just 
can't understand how ya got it so cheap :)


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