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| Reviews Summary for Drake C-Line |
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W7NWH
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Rating: 5/5
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Feb 24, 2008 10:44
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A great American Classic
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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I just picked up a set of twin's recently. Both in excellent shape. They have been sitting in a closet for 30 years. Used a variac first time up, surprised to find both operated fine. Receiver is just superb, that fat Drake SSB sound that I find my often used TR-4C has inherited. These are missing cables so I have not used them in transceive mode yet. Add the matching Drake speaker and I'm all set.
I just fell into becoming a Drake collector. Nabbed a clean TR-4C and now honestly, I can't stop! Nostalgia maybe, but there's something about owning a tubed radio.
I will most likely sell these eventually as there is no room in my small shack to really appreciate the American simplicity and quality engineering.
If you can find a clean pair, or an R-4C and you like operating period radio's then you'll get a huge smile spinning the VFO's on these rigs!
W7NWH
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N4FZ
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Rating: 5/5
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Feb 24, 2008 10:03
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Classics
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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My Dad bought the C-Line back in 1979, second hand. Still in use today. I retubed the finals a few years ago, and had the set realigned. Well designed, and built in America. Great reciever and transmitter. I have enjoyed using them all these years.
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HB9DDS
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Rating: 5/5
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Feb 10, 2008 08:16
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Excellent, also today
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Time owned: 3 to 6 months
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I own a Drake C-Line with 2K Sherwood Filter 1th ZF. Receive AND Transmit Audio are excellent with the Shure 444 Mic and a RF Speech Processor from Daton (ASP). Very quit RX, no Pops Problems with QRN and the AGC, easy to handle (tune). Newer Rigs are NOT "better" except some more comfort (Split, Memory etc). Very fast tuning over the bands, working also on 30M, 17M, 12M without nor problems and full output. And with the Digital Display DD-103 attached to the RX it is very comfortable.
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