[Yaesu] Best $600 contest rig

[Dave Edwards]

Your TR7 had a problem!  While I don't think it is the 'hot' choice for the
price mentioned for a contest rig...it still is a great performing
rig...light years ahead of any eldico setup.
...Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Harrison" <k0xp at dandy.net>
To: <Yaesu at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Yaesu] Best $600 contest rig


> At 01:04 PM 9/24/2006 -0400, kd4e wrote:
>>Renee wrote:
>>> I would say a Drake TR7. I have used one for such in the past and it
>>> performed quite well. Wouldn't mind having one again.
>>> 73
>>> Renee NZ9T
>>
>>The Drake TR-7 was way ahead of its time and still
>>is a fine rig for about any Ham application!
>
> I TRIED using one of those in a CW contest from a friend's place who had
> nice big yagis, back in the early '80s. It was super-deaf yet couldn't 
> cope
> with big guns within a few kc, and I could barely hear the sidetone.
> Super-frustrated, I gave up after some hours, drove home, yanked my old
> hollow-state Eldico twins off my desk, brought them back, and proceeded to
> wow my friend with almost a thousand Qs through the rest of the contest. 
> He
> sold that POS TR-7 shortly thereafter  ;o))))))))))
>
> I had a lotta fun with that old Eldico setup; wish I hadn't had to sell it
> and my FT757GX to buy a crib when we were expecting our first baby
> ;o((((((((((  Had even more fun with the 757 operating CW mobile in my ole
> '79 Cutlass; that turned out to be my last major mobile setup but I'm 
> about
> to do it again sometime this winter, I think.
>
> Last weekend, I musta been way outta it as I passed on snatching up a 757
> GX II for only $200 (seemed too good a deal, and I rembered the problems
> I'd had with my old 757GX's AGC circuits way back when). Wanting to look
> around the hamfest some more before buying it (I really needed a good
> rotator more than another HF radio), I eventually got back almost an hour
> later and the seller had reduced it to only ONE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS!!!!!
> Unfortunately, there was an older couple, recent new hams of my local 
> club,
> also standing there, debating whether to buy it. After 15 minutes, they
> finally shelled out their cash and took it home 
> ;o((((((((((((((((((((((((
> On the plus side, I did wind up with a great shape new-looking HD73 for
> only $75 and an old but good shape Ham-M for $100, both with control boxes
> but no cable. As mentioned yesterday, I now also have a G-450XL but the
> dang thang has several stripped gears as well as two teeth broken from the
> top housing. Gwan be expensive to repair it  ;o\  ;o\  ;o\  Still trying 
> to
> negotiate with the xXxx seller, who'd advertised it as "ready to go, NOT
> DOA,". Yeah, sure  ;o\  ;o\  ;o\  I wudda been better off to have bought a
> new one.
>
> Steve, K0XP
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