Mike/XU mentioned the Johnson Messenger. Yes, they were a hot ticket when I was on 11m as a kid in the 1960s. On the air they were known as the "White Faced Johnson" for the brushed aluminum front panel and square, breadbox styling. Who has a breadbox anymore? Well anyway, these could apparently be tweaked to 10-15 watts, excellent upgrade on its own or to drive a leen-yer.
My "station" was a Shady O'Rack Americana 23-Plus, which had a "half channel" of 22A (which they helpfully pointed out was illegal for Class D 11 meter use in the U.S., thereby confirming it would work here), driving a Super Mag ground plane vertical. This was around a sunspot peak of some kind, and I did pretty well working dog X-Ray. By 1969 I had gone SWL, then into "ham" radio by late 1971 and never looked back. Only thing in common with those days is running AM and tweaking the technical side of the plant. Paul/VJB __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
