FW: [Yaesu] RE: best tube rig

[Walter A. Hutchens]

Adam said:
> If you want to operate on 30, 17 or 12m, you are out of luck.

These are ham bands now?   Shoot -- next thing you know there'll be a tube 
that'll go to higher frequencies than a 6J6 ... and what about that 'solid 
state' idea people keep talking about?

NE0P:
> I am still going with the FT902DM or FT102 as the best Yaesu tube
> rig. 

I may have misunderstood the question:  I took it to mean 'few to no solid 
state devices.'  If you include the Yaesu rigs that used vacuum tubes only 
for finals and driver stage, there are certainly other entries that I wouldn't 
be able to comment on. 

DD:
> I see that Hart (VE3KIS) has stirred the pot once again! <SNIP>
> And the thread carries on!!! 

Maybe he does it just for those of us that read the list for months without 
seeing the nomenclature of a single radio we've ever touched.   Probably 
when we'll get tired of the discussion, we'll quit ...

Walt Hutchens
KJ4KV
Developing the radios of 1960 as they should have been ... well ... I can 
dream, can't I?