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Men Itching To Get a 'Classic Rig' Crackling Again:
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A 1970's Era Radio is an "Antique"?
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by KJ6BSO on February 7, 2010
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If so, what does that make me? I'm a 1950's era model.
No, on second thought, don't tell me. I don't want to know.
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RE: A 1970's Era Radio is an "Antique"?
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by VK4DGG on February 7, 2010
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If memory serves me, anything more than 40 years old can be classified as an antique, according to Ohio state law, you know, cars, toys, comic books.......people?
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by W8AAZ on February 7, 2010
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Thanks for posting the link to the interesting story, and now I would love to work that rig on the air sometime just cause I want to hear the old rigs again. Almost bought a used Swan in the later 70s but it was long in the tooth even then.
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by QRZDXR2 on February 7, 2010
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sounds like its a MAN and not MEN...
the swan was a drifty piece of junk back then and probably is not much different now. That is why you don't see many of them anymore.. they are junk.
And to say your going to use this on the emergency airwaves... pooo.. not on mine... we don't have time to chase the transciever around the band till it gets stable.
good luck in getting a good old piece of junk going again to use for a boat anchor.
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RE: A 1970's Era Radio is an "Antique"?
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by K1DA on February 8, 2010
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What the coward without a call doesn't understand is how many Drake, Collins, and Heathkit stations are still on the air every day especially on CW. There may be a reason for THAT.
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by K0FOP on February 8, 2010
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I'm a 50s era model, too, and my tube rigs still occupy my desktop (albeit, most of it) right along with the newer Kenwoods. There is nothing quite like the warmth of an HT-32/HT-33. Good for you on that Swan. Jon KØFOP.
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RE: A 1970's Era Radio is an "Antique"?
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by QRZDXR2 on February 8, 2010
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K1DA on February 8, 2010
What the coward without a call doesn't understand is how many Drake, Collins, and Heathkit stations are still on the air every day especially on CW. There may be a reason for THAT.
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It never amaz's me that the eastern coast (land of the 1's) people have such arogant egos to point out that the rest of the country doesn't know anything... Careful their bonehead who you are calling a coward. Drake, Collins and heathkit were all fine rigs but clearly if you ever owned a SWAN... you would curse the day you bought it. They were JUNK. You don't hear them on the air anymore becuase everyone else thought the same. You do hear drake, collins and heathkits by the thousands. Thus guess who made the better rigs??
That the SWAN rig is what, by the way, were talking about here as a boat anchor...or did that issue allude you?
If you work one on cw be prepaired to chase his signal all over the band. It wasn't even good on CW. It would give your RIT a workout as you tried to keep him at one steady tone. I worked one that was so bad he drifted down and bumped into another cw station next to him. that started a war with issues of interfearance. As I recall the jerk owned a swan 500c and was from the 1- land too... That wasn't you was it???
The only thing good about a swan was that they were cheap. However, you got what you paid for. (something about low bid effect--grin)
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by KB8UYZ on February 9, 2010
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Drifty is right. I have an old Swan 250 ... those things are known as "two drifty". Still they're nice looking rigs.
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by K1DA on February 9, 2010
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A coward without a call is a coward without a call.
If your opinion was worth anything you would tell us who you are.
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by AH6GI on February 10, 2010
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COME ON!
He's restoring it for the technical challenge and as a memorial project to the old man, who died at the mike.
The pictures show more modern radios. Is that a Triton IV? Is that a Kenwood?
This is a fun project and obviously he's not going to do combat in SS or CQWWDX, go for the Honor Roll, with the Swan.
He'll check into some boatanchor net and get lots of Kudo's...
"Old drifty sounds pretty good this morning..."
de ah6gi/4 restoring old iron as time permits.
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by QRZDXR2 on February 10, 2010
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K1DA on February 9, 2010
A coward without a call is a coward without a call.
If your opinion was worth anything you would tell us who you are.
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gee I guess I should because YOU say I should. does that say anything about you??? last time I checked you don't pay my bills. So until you do... you know the routine on international... deplomacy
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RE: A 1970's Era Radio is an "Antique"?
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by QRZDXR2 on February 10, 2010
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AH6GI on February 10, 2010
COME ON!
He's restoring it for the technical challenge and as a memorial project to the old man, who died at the mike.
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No doubt we know why he died at the mike using a SWAN. Probably had a heart attack after putting his life savings into the thing and eveyone that owned heathkits were making fun of his drifty signal...
Ya its a BIG challenge to get one restored so that you can make them 15 second contacts again. That is about all the time you will have as it drifts off in frequency.
Actually the SWAN's were great for contesting.. you never had to touch the dial and you could work the whole band up one side and down the other depending on which way the fan was blowing in the shack... baaaaaaaahhhhhh as the one said... are we having fun yet. A SWAN was approprately named but, GOOSE or LAME DUCK was a close second at the review board meeting because they couldn't bring themselves to call it what a SWAN/GOOSE does all the time... something about nitrogious waist... it was (be nice).
Now you really want to have fun... go read what barry goldwater said about his that was mounted in his corvett back then. "One railroad crossing and your on a new band... having never touch the dial." Need heat in the car..no problem... the radio will automatically shift frequency to the other end of the band... why you could tell what the inside temp was by where your operating. As for warm up's one could arrive at their destination just shortly before the SWAN did... ya it was a fun rig. Can't imagine why they quit making 'em...
so when someone says they are using a OLD SWAN.. everyone on the other end of the speaker smile and say.. wow.. good luck... n 73'SSSssssssssssss...
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