Personally I'd like to see things go in the other direction, and have
kits using tubes. It's nostalgia I suppose, but who says radios have to
be state of the art?.
When I was young I used to drool over Heathkit catalogs, but I could
never afford to buy the kits in those days. But some of my earliest
radios were tube-based, and there is something intrinsically satisfying
about a big, solid radio made with vacuum tubes, that today's tiny
microprocessor based solid state radios just can't hope to emulate.
Plus, they would be easier to build for those of us whose eyes are less
sharp and hands less steady...
The only thing that stops me building the only avaliable tube-based
radio kit, an HF linear, apart from the price, is the havoc that running
that amount of power would cause with my indoor antennas.
73,
--
Julian, G4ILO
G4ILO's Shack: http://www.tech-pro.net/g4ilo
"JS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Shall we back to basic? One of the advantages of kits from Elecraft is
'without' SMD stuff for the 'normal' skill builders. I consider myself
is a 'normal' skill builders though I can handle SMD. Without SMD, most
of elecraft kits can be handled by simple and easily avaliable tools.
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