This is my very first post to the Drake List, so I guess a little bio would be appropriate. I was first licensed in winter 1974 (novice) and upgraded to general in the fall of 1975. I bought a Drake TR-4C with money earned mowing lawns and doing odd jobs as a high school aged young man. I still have that TR-4C. >From high school I went into the Navy for 6yrs. While in the Navy, I was in Memphis in '77 and bought a set of Drake Twins, T-4x & R-4A. They were good old rigs and worked 200+ countries with them while in the service. In the early 90's I sent the "A-Line" down the road and joined up with the solid state trend but hung onto the old TR-4C. Recently I found that I had got tired of the "rice boxes" and all the noise. Talking with a friend about the current "state of the art" and amateur radio he said I should go back to my roots, dig out that old TR-4C and give it another listen. He told me about the DrakeList and said I needed to go take a look at the technical reports on the Sherwood Engineering web site. What I found was very impressive. I wanting to find a complete "C-Line". Today at a local Hamfest, sitting there on a flea market table was a mint T-4XC & AC-4 power supply, it was in perfect working order, this baby was a real beauty, the asking price was $200. I would have been embarrassed to ask the seller if they could come down some on the price. Recently, thru dumb, I located a luck a complete "C-Line" and the R-4C has every Sherwood mod possible already installed, a full set of filters, and crystal's for 160 for the TX & RX. Now I have the problem of this extra T-4XC sitting here, I think I will continue to hold out for another R-4C, but a guy never knows a nice R-4B might find its way into the shack too. Life is good,
Don Jones KO7i Arlington, WA
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