Garey Barrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Al -
Glad you like the CD.. It took MUCH longer than I anticipated. A lot more compact than the B and C Line units, making photos difficult. I had to disassemble some parts just to get a decent picture. Anyway, nice comments make it all worthwhile.
I'm not sure who you're referring to re the SPICE simulations. Sounds interesting, even though I am a "strictly original" type!! I love and use this equipment for what it is/was, and modifying it destroys the value to me. Kinda like putting a Chevy V-8 into a Willys Jeep. Yeah, it's probably a 'better' vehicle, but it's no longer a Chevy -OR- a Jeep. I would like to see what you are asking about though, because it IS fun to look at what might have been done differently. Although I went all through school with a slide rule, and didn't see a calculator OR computer until I was in the working world, it still amazes me that something like the Passband Tuner was designed with only a slide rule. I got my first calculator, an HP-35, in 1972. They were $395, and each of the HP test equipment reps had one. Our guy came to see us one day a whipped out this little tiny thing and showed us a few calculations. As we were picking our jaws up off the floor, he held it out to my friend standing next to me and just as my friend touched it the guy let it go! Of course it fell to the tile lab floor and bounced a couple of times..... He reached down and picked it up to show us it was just fine........ Standard demo procedure. :-) Turns out that each rep was allowed to purchase ONE unit at only $295. The Sales secretarial staff set up a network to match "good" test equipment customers with a sales rep who wanted to sell his ONE unit for a fee of only $5. At the time I was probably spending $50k/yr with HP, so I qualified. My friend and I each bought one for ONLY $300 each. I used mine for five years, then my wife commandeered it and used it all through graduate school. She bought me a new HP-27C for about $100 so she could get my '35!! I still have the '35 and the '27C, both work fine.
Bill has been with Drake for over 40 years. He has been an absolute treasure to the Drake community. He did more for the company reputation over all these years than even they realize, I'm sure. I talk to him once in a while, and he has sent me a lot of stuff that most would have just thrown away. All their production records were thrown away while he was on vacation many years ago, or I'd have those too!! He is now spending his days shepherding head-end HDTV gear, as he says "all black boxes", and I think he misses the "real" Drake gear too!
My Daughter has been down here for a few days from St Charles, helping me sort through some of this junk. I'm sure we'll be back before too long.
73, Garey - K4OAH Glen Allen, VA ALAN PHILLIPS wrote:
Hi Garey: I just received your TR4 service CD. It is definetly complete...nothing has been left out. The tube lists for each version is great! A schematic for each version is better than just one. The parts lists are easy to read..very professional! My son loaded the cd on his own laptop. Maybe he will read it and get interested and get his ticket. one question. the mods done by our friend overseas, says SPICE simulations show improvements. try and let me know? Has he not tryed them himself? Is it just theory? Garey, Have you tryed them, even the low freq ssb mod? Please let me know and thanks for including special info from Bill Frost in your cd.Let me know when you visit the area again, 73's Al KC9YS */Garey Barrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: Garey Barrell made an utterance to the drakelist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unique supplemental service information CDs available for the Drake 2-B receiver, the B and C Lines, The TR-4 and the TR-4C / Cw / CwRIT transceivers. These CDs are NOT just scans of the original manuals that were included with the equipment when new. While high resolution scans of the original manuals ARE on the CDs, what they really offer is high resolution color photos of the under chassis and individual PC boards of each unit with all parts identified and keyed to a parts list. This information is not available elsewhere and really makes a difference in servicing these units. Samples of these pages (at reduced resolution) and purchase information are at .-- 73, Garey - K4OAHGlen Allen, VA
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