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Collins AM Transmitter

While we were at Dayton Hamvention 2010, I saw an old Collins AM transmitter for sale on the back of someone’s pick-up truck. While doing a little googl’ing today I found Mike, W8BAC who has one in his basement collection.

Here’s Mike’s website.

Heathkit radio

For Laurie’s birthday I got her a Heathkit 401/301 combo with the station console. She’s very much into vintage anything and the Heathkit just happens to come in her favorite color. It’s pretty rock solid on the air and just in testing I’ve gotten decent signal reports with great audio reports. Can’t argue with that. I also was quickly reminded of the scent tubes and old electronics put out. A well welcomed attribute to the shack.

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