My boyhood neighbor and "Elmer", Lee, W7UVR (see my QRZ page) fell into a trust
fund income and had all of the toys. He enlisted a local ham, who was a tool
and die maker and great builder of equipment, to build the mechanicals of a CW
rig using a Geloso VFO driving an HK57. I begged him to let me buy and finish
the rig. He said, no doubt correctly at the time, that this would be beyond me,
but his brother, W6GMC, had a DX100 that he built but no longer wanted, and that
would be the ideal rig for me. IIRC the kit sold for $189 and he would sell the
assembled rig for the same amount and I could pay him $5/week. The deal was
struck and he drove to CA to pick up the DX100. That and my BC-342-N was the
station.
When I got interested in two-meters in the 1960s I did build quite a few amps;
one of them used an 829B and I "stole" the modulated B+ from the DX100 to run it
on AM.
Wes N7WS
On 7/2/2022 3:35 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 7/2/2022 1:58 PM, Wes wrote:
Hard to believe. A man of your age and experience.
My experience was earlier, with an Apache, and later a TV. And there were a
DX100 and SX101 that an older ham loaned me because he couldn't pass the 13
wpm code test. Before that, it was a couple of Command sets and a BC348, and
before that, an S38D. No way could I have bought that DX100 in my high school
days -- it was two summers of work for the BC348.
I bought my first amp in 2004.
73, Jim K9YC
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