Many years ago as a teen ham [OK, way more years ago than "many," dirt was young then] I had an SX-28 receiver. For the newbies, radioblvd.com/SX28Notes I sold it when I was about to graduate from Cal Poly in 1962.
Several years ago, I "inherited" a stock SX-28 with speaker from the estate of Woody, W6ANX. Nostalgia reigned for awhile, I used it on CW with my K2 as the TX on SKN and a few others. Then nostalgia faded, and I began to realize: 1. The RX, which sounded really good on AM left a lot to be desired in the stability, resetability, sensitivity, selectivity, noise reduction, AGC, and size departments, not to mention SSB reception capability. 2. It weighed in a close to 100 US lbs, I could no longer lift it by myself as I could at 16, and it's primary purpose in the shack seemed to have faded to holding down the operating desk against gravity outages. I finally donated it to the radio museum in Virginia City where it was restored and resides today. Scroll down the above URL a bit to S/N H-130170 for a peek. I had a little problem at first with the lack of weight of my K3 ... pushing the buttons caused it to slip a little on the rubber feet. I cut a piece of that non-slip stuff [sort of a lacework] and solved the problem. I do not want a heavy radio anymore, K3 is great for me. 73, Fred K6DGW Lu Romero wrote: > A 7800/7700 would have collapsed my operating table. I > really dont want to call my neighbor to help me lift it out > of the shipping crate. > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
