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2Gooney Box! My dad had one in our basement for the longest time. If you're into it, I'd go for it. Looks like it's in great condition.
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3Totally not wrong to want it. And six meter gets you away from all the dual band dorks.
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4Lust away! Even covet! You NEED that rig!!!
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5I'd consider wanting that and I have no interest in radio. That's just cool!
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6Hey, I resemble thatfknauss wrote:Totally not wrong to want it. And six meter gets you away from all the dual band dorks.
They make a 2m model of the same set. apparently they used to give these away to Civil Defense volunteers.
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7I'm with FS on this one. I'm not a HAM guy, and I still want it for some strange reason. You should totally buy it.
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8Me too. Even though I've got my extra ticket, I still only hang out on the local repeaters, and that mostly only when I'm in the backwoods.Hey, I resemble that :)
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9Tubes are good, we like tubes.
However, one might be wise to confirm that the particular valves that drive this little beasty are still available at an affordable price. (I've a very old oscilloscope which requires a particular power tube that is simply no longer out there and not being made...even in China).
One of my favorite pass-times is scoping out old radio-television-electronics shops for whatever tubes might be laying around. Some of those little buggers command a hefty price. But in reality, I am looking for pre-amp and power valves for guitar amplifiers...and I would love to find an old 'tube tester', like the kind one would see in pharmacy's and grocery stores back in the sixties
For the young among us I am speaking of vacuum tubes: ETA: But...shit yeah...buy it. Why would you not? You'd be the only guy in the hood who is functional after the EMP...well, except for others who have bothered to invest in tube equipment too!
However, one might be wise to confirm that the particular valves that drive this little beasty are still available at an affordable price. (I've a very old oscilloscope which requires a particular power tube that is simply no longer out there and not being made...even in China).
One of my favorite pass-times is scoping out old radio-television-electronics shops for whatever tubes might be laying around. Some of those little buggers command a hefty price. But in reality, I am looking for pre-amp and power valves for guitar amplifiers...and I would love to find an old 'tube tester', like the kind one would see in pharmacy's and grocery stores back in the sixties
For the young among us I am speaking of vacuum tubes: ETA: But...shit yeah...buy it. Why would you not? You'd be the only guy in the hood who is functional after the EMP...well, except for others who have bothered to invest in tube equipment too!
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10If you're ever in Bellingham WA, you must visit the Spark Museum of Electrical Invention. Tube lovers will swoon.
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The Right Reverend John England, first Roman Catholic Bishop of Charleston SC, 1825.
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11I shot him a low ball of $100 this morning(before I saw this post). I haven't heard back. might be waiting to see if someone outright buys it. I would suggest you swoop in with an offer of like $150 about an hour or 2 before it ends if there are no bids.
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13so I did some snooping, looking for a schematic for this cute little bastard...couldn't find one to match that exactly in the short time I gave it but I did find a schematic for a Gonset Receiver from what appears to be the same era and, it being fairly common amongst electronics types to stick with what works, figure that many of the components will use the same parts...
and most the tubes I came across were straight ahead sort of stuff and a few are hard to find and one, a 2E26 isn't listed in my 'GE Essential Characteristics' Tube Manual but...the schematic shows it to have the same base and grid indicators as a 2E32, which is a Sharp-Cutoff RF Pentode, so I am guessing that my book predates the introduction of this particular tube.
I noticed that the seller has an image of the user manual...perhaps you can get the seller to open that up and send you a list of the vacuum tubes the transceiver uses and you can do your own search.
I did find one essential that I am certain you will want / need...
and most the tubes I came across were straight ahead sort of stuff and a few are hard to find and one, a 2E26 isn't listed in my 'GE Essential Characteristics' Tube Manual but...the schematic shows it to have the same base and grid indicators as a 2E32, which is a Sharp-Cutoff RF Pentode, so I am guessing that my book predates the introduction of this particular tube.
I noticed that the seller has an image of the user manual...perhaps you can get the seller to open that up and send you a list of the vacuum tubes the transceiver uses and you can do your own search.
I did find one essential that I am certain you will want / need...
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14Ah yes, tube technology: the wave of the future!Rolandson wrote:ETA: But...shit yeah...buy it. Why would you not? You'd be the only guy in the hood who is functional after the EMP...well, except for others who have bothered to invest in tube equipment too!
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15Here's the real problem. If you don't buy it, then an EMP will fall on your part of the country and wipe out the grid for the next decade. Making millions of people impoverished and displaced, with hundreds of thousands of deaths. Don't let hundreds of thousands people die, just buy it.AmirMortal wrote:Ah yes, tube technology: the wave of the future!Rolandson wrote:ETA: But...shit yeah...buy it. Why would you not? You'd be the only guy in the hood who is functional after the EMP...well, except for others who have bothered to invest in tube equipment too!
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16Indeed! They may be old, but nothing comes close to approaching the tonal characteristics / sound quality that these things produce...even today. Between that and their ability to remain largely unaffected by the pulse of a nuclear detonation ... we'll be rocking back into the stone age any day now!AmirMortal wrote: Ah yes, tube technology: the wave of the future!
Subliterate Buffooery of the right...
Literate Ignorance of the left...
We Are So Screwed
Literate Ignorance of the left...
We Are So Screwed
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17It's also a technology we could recover with a much smaller infrastructure. Team an electronics geek with an old hardcopy manual up with a jeweler, a blacksmith, and a glass blower in a decent shop and they'll be able to produce a working radio system beyond spark gap transmitters and crystal receivers within a few months. Producing integrated circuits will take a little bit more plant and trained workforce.rolandson wrote:Indeed! They may be old, but nothing comes close to approaching the tonal characteristics / sound quality that these things produce...even today. Between that and their ability to remain largely unaffected by the pulse of a nuclear detonation ... we'll be rocking back into the stone age any day now!AmirMortal wrote:Ah yes, tube technology: the wave of the future!
"There never was a union of church and state which did not bring serious evils to religion."
The Right Reverend John England, first Roman Catholic Bishop of Charleston SC, 1825.
The Right Reverend John England, first Roman Catholic Bishop of Charleston SC, 1825.