A couple more classics

[N8YX]

Lots of 11M denizens love their various "export" model radios - or to operate amateur radio rigs on the band. I prefer the old-school/vintage - legal - way of doing things, as QRP is more challenging anyway.

One of the CB mags of the day used to run ads for various rigs. The TRS Challenger 1400 was one of them.

I looked for decades (not just years) for one of these. Also got the AM-only version - the 1200. The latter is going to get modded in that the 1st IF filter could be swapped from the OEM 2-pole MCF to a canned 8-pole type, thereby increasing adjacent channel rejection. What's interesting about the 1400 is that the IF filter is a variable-bandwidth type, as is used with the CPI series of radios. Those sets turned in some of the highest adjacent-channel rejection numbers ever recorded, but I don't have any figures for the TRS series available.

The receivers are very sensitive, comparing favorably to my high-end ham rigs.

When I have the 1400 on I'll be QSX on 38LSB.

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[K4PIH]

Kind of reminds me of my Tram D201 with the wooden panels.

[WZ7U]

Nicer looking than my Cobra 2000! Kewl.

[kb2crk]

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I only have old relics like these.
I think I fixed it. No my pics but I have these and they still work

[KG4CGC]

Hey, Paul. Try again with the pics. Sometimes you have to do the job twice.

[N8YX]

Hey, Paul. Try again with the pics. Sometimes you have to do the job twice.

True, that.

Bites me a LOT when posting stuff cached locally.

[ad4mg]

Hey, Paul. Try again with the pics. Sometimes you have to do the job twice.

Use the advanced editor, not the quick reply interface, to attach photos. It seems to minimize this 'feature'. I have never been able to get a handle on why this software does this. I preferred phpBB over vBulletin, but security was a major issue with phpBB.

[kb2vxa]

Being a thermionic valve man in a vacuum tube country and a tube man in a transistorized world the chicken box that had the best selectivity was this Courier 1M. It was out of alignment when I received it, the transmitter was straightforward using standard third overtone 30pF crystals, but being the only triple conversion receiver and having an odd injection scheme I couldn't make sense of it. Then I got lucky, Gabor "Gabby" Incze the design engineer was a local CBer. He aligned it and showed me how, the receiver came to life. I used three communications receivers on 11M, two double conversion, none could hold a candle to the little Courier. Back then I had tubes up the wazoo (ouch) and they were cheap as dirt, today is a different story.

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[kb2crk]

Here are 2 I have in the garage but They most likely wont work now.
The lafayette was fun as you could split frequency with it.... two full receivers in one radio. was easy to add extra channels too but that was before my ham days

[N8YX]

Not a pic of mine, but I have two of these (dual RX; similar to the Lafayette setup):

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