Started about the same way. 1959. DX-40, one 7198 crystal, and a borrowed BC-455. When I upgraded to a BC-312N, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. After passing the General the next year I was rewarded with a 2nd hand SX-100. Used the DX-40 well into high school until I was presented with a Globe Champion 350 my dad found for sale for $25!
Never owned a Drake of any kind until I started collecting and using the catalog contents of my youth. Been through a lot if it including some of the marine products. All time favorites are the 1-A and 2-B. All that's left of that today is a TR-7/RV-75 which I keep as a backup radio. Grant/NQ5T > > My first rig was a command set receiver on 40 meters along with a factory > built Knight T-60 bought from another more affluent teenage ham. _______________________________________________ Drakelist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
