"A night sky full of cries. Hearts filled with lies. The contract: is it worth the price?"
A local Ham who I've been helping get on the air is a huge fan of the old gear and has a modest collection of tube gear. He offered to loan me his Swan 350 to borrow for a while, and see if I like using tubes. Thoughts on the drifty 50?
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
Well Duncan, you said you wanted to know what it was like back then.
The Swan will definitely give you a dose of what it was like, a big dose.
Never sure exactly what frequency you're on for sure, one hand on VFO dial constantly........
Yeah, the Swan 350 will serve as a primer.
Another possibility if you're lucky enough to have hamfests and can get to them, is to check them out for vintage gear. Prices are almost always better than ePay, and there's a possibility that the guy selling it would be more than happy to help you get it on the air.
And, yea, there's a lot of little pieces that a vintage BA station require, but that's part of the fun.
If it's a war on drugs, then free the POW's.
Be sure to park your portable frequency counter beside the rig just for a redundant reference and a tracking device.
They don't call em the Swan 3 drifty for nothing
Eico 753, anyone?
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
I miss my Eico signal tracer , with the cat's-eye tube .