This thread like many in this forum brought back some fond memories including a couple of funny ones. One in particular is the Dumbco Power Mutilator mic preamp that was a 2.5W power amplifier, a 12AX7 dual triode driving a 6AQ5 power pentode. The funny part is why a power amplifier that can't deliver power into a high impedance (50K+) load presented by the first stage of a speech amp designed for a crystal mic? Now we have another POS crapping up the band, it don't mean a thang if ya ain't got that swang (do wa do wa do what?).
OK, CB isn't ALL bad, but it reminds me of a Top 40 AM station of old "where the shits just keep on coming". You guys have the right idea, take the best of the best, make a few improvements, and use them as QRP rigs on 10M where you can tune up the band out of range of those annoying freebanders and renegade truckers.
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