Scan of an Eldico catalog...

[W1GUH]

Here... (http://photos.edebris.com/catalog/browse/4305/0/0/90/ee23b6c0072a9033571e2940c59f8fe6)

The scans are nothing to write home about, but at least they load fast. I had no idea how much stuff Eldico made!

But...boo...hiss...the antenna tuner isn't link-coupled. Bad, Eldico! ;)

[W5GA]

Guess I've led a sheltered life, I've never even heard of them before.

[W1GUH]

They were pretty rare, even in their day. I only saw one once. My barber (W8BQG, Keith Hills, sk) ran one with a Johnson Thunderbolt and an 'A4, and that's the only reason I knew of them. The other top-tier hams in town ran 100V's. If you haven't already, you can learn lots about them through google-fu, including a lawsuit from Collins when Eldico tried to second-source military HF gear.

The 100F may have been the first ham transmitter with a 'scope built-in. I [think] (but not sure) that they pre-dated CE's 100V.

[W1GUH]

There are some nice pix of a 100F in this eBay listing (http://cgi.ebay.com/Eldico-SSB-100F-Transmitter-not-tested-ham-radio-/280652212353?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item41582ce881). (Darn eBay won't let me download images anymore...guess I'll find 'em in "Temporary Internet Files?").

Anyway, those are good pix of a great, if rare, transmitter from the 50's. If I saw one like that at a hamfest and I could give it a good home, I'd snatch it up for a price that this one is going to fetch. Make a nice addition to a vintage collection.

[ab1ga]

There are some nice pix of a 100F in this eBay listing (http://cgi.ebay.com/Eldico-SSB-100F-Transmitter-not-tested-ham-radio-/280652212353?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item41582ce881). (Darn eBay won't let me download images anymore...guess I'll find 'em in "Temporary Internet Files?").

Anyway, those are good pix of a great, if rare, transmitter from the 50's. If I saw one like that at a hamfest and I could give it a good home, I'd snatch it up for a price that this one is going to fetch. Make a nice addition to a vintage collection.

You could probably pick one up real cheap in WA6MHZ's garage, once you got past the pit bulls and the black widows.

73,

[W1GUH]

And the drama, and the exclamation points, etc. :lol:

[NQ6U]

You could probably pick one up real cheap in WA6MHZ's garage, once you got past the pit bulls and the black widows.

73,

Not to mention ABNS.

[W1GUH]

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/$(KGrHqZ,!hoE1hgrZ!)dBNk6dZfT!Q~~_3.JPG
From the eBay listing. Current bid is $204.02

[NQ6U]

Wow, megacycles! That brings me back to the Olden Dayes for sure.

[W1GUH]

Does your lady have a menstral hertz?

[NQ6U]

Does your lady have a menstral hertz?

It mostly hertz me...

[WØTKX]

It's tuned to channel 17? :lol: Yes, I know 11 meters used to be a ham band.

[KA5PIU]

It's tuned to channel 17? :lol: Yes, I know 11 meters used to be a ham band.

Hello.

You would be amazed at the number of people who still use that stuff on 11 meters. ;)
I can still get things like the FT-101 that have been worked over by the newer CB shops, more power, and have fried tubes and transformers, radios that worked for years before the golden screwdriver.
But they listen to that "PekaTune".

[W1GUH]

It's tuned to channel 17? :lol: Yes, I know 11 meters used to be a ham band.

Wondered about that, too. Dunno enough about the radio to know if it did AM or not (Can't see a switch position for it), but maybe just unbalancing the balanced modulator would do it.

[KA5PIU]

Hello.

In that era you would use a modulator on a CW rig.
In fact some early transmitters used one 1/4" jack for CW or AM.
This would key the final for CW, and with the use of a carbon microphone, modulate the final.
You dare not touch the hot side of the key!

[W1GUH]

Did it all the time. That's why I'm like I am today.