Hi Drakelist Gang ; Got a really sweet 2B receiver from a Drake List
contributor a couple of weeks ago. What a great little rig! Not much to look
at, never made a matching transmitter to go with it, but the 2BQ is a really
nice addition to it's performance. The 2B's really can dig out the weak one's
and I am impressed! If I can catch a signal, I can make adjustments to the rig
and add some finishing touches with the 2BQ peaking Q multipiler. So nice not
to have that hollow/echo sound of an IF filter or DSP (Timewave 599+). Its'
sound is soft and mellow or can be made piercingly sharp.
Anyway, enough of my ranting and raving...Does anyone recall the XYL CW op who
used her 2B for 60wpm CW QSO's? It was a Drake advertisement in a '64 issue of
QST. Drake instructed the reader to write to them to find out about the TR
switching arrangement she was using for flawless QSK @ 60wpm with her 2B..
Accoring to the ad, she was asked by Drake's engineering dept. to help them
develop and test features and performance improvements when they were designing
the proto-types.
What was the TR switching arrangement she was using? Currently I am running
QSK CW with a Johnson TR switch and it is doing a FB job but this is one of
those "mysteries" that I would like to have the answer to.
73 from Lane. de n8aft in Columbus, Ohio
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