Hi Carey, Please don't feel bad, you asked a perfectly reasonable question and found the answer. There was really no way to enter a question like that into a search engine until you at least had a manufacturers name or model number. That you got and that is why we are all here, to help eachother. If you did not happen to know about the Drake site, you could not be expected to be able to find out anything, either. The last time I tried to find the Drake site on Google, the link did not work, so you can see there are problems. In any rate, welcome to the reflector and to the world of Drake collecting.
My little tirade was about the folks who know what they want and in many cases have the above information. Then they get onto the reflectors looking for someone to look it up for them, or maybe even send them the tube, connector or other part from their junk box at no cost. Rarely do you see someone offer up front to pay for the item. Maybe they would offer to pay after someone offers them the item, but it is not that evident at the outset. I used to send out connectors, hardware and other stuff just to help out. Now with increased postage rates and limited time to find suitable packing, box it up and take it to the post office or shipping company, I can no longer do that gratis. Good guy or not, it is just not worth the hassle unless a fair price is paid and the postage covered. I do have an extensive library of manuals, catalogs and reference books and I am glad to look up things for folks. A goodly number of manuals are now available free or at reasonable cost for a quality reprint. Therefore, I will no longer take the time to go to Kinkos or other copy place to reproduce a manual for free. The only time I would even offer is if it happened to be a rare manual what I was sure was not available anywhere else. Also, there is the copyright law bit and I have been challenged about that several times by overzealous clerks at the copy stores. Although most of these materials are very old and the companies are in many cases defunct, nobody knows if someone out there still holds a copyright. For instance, in the case of Hallicrafters, the name is owned by an electronics company and Drake is still in business although neither is in the ham gear market at this point. 73, John, W4AWM ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com
