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Damn sweet radio there chris. I would have let that one follow me home also!! I have a weakness that those old boatanchors seem to know, and they take full advantage of me because of it !!
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Nice score and it's nice to see it in such nice condition.
 I've been going a different track on getting a nice SW radio setup. I've been accumulating parts and such so that when I retire next spring I'll have time to slowly design and assemble a nice high performance receiver. I recently scored a Cubic 1st & 2nd IF converter module from a military Cubic receiver. It's a hell of a front end, the first mixer local oscillator drive is 1/2 watt!. It has a 10khz, 40.455 crystal filter! There is a nice picture in the listing: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...6660&rd=1&rd=1 Lefty
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Awesome unit. Looks like it is built to last forever. I would love to acquire one of these one day.
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"Nice find there Chris, I've been busy myself lately with a Sears branded Yaesu FRG-7 I acquired. Now I'm thinking of getting a transceiver and my ham license. Congrats again Chris".
hi dan , nice to see you around and thanks for the comments.congrats to you to about thinking about gettting your ham ticket.i wish you luck should you decide to go for it.if you have any questions jim(snapshotjc )should be able to help you as he's a relative new ham himself and could give you a good idea of whats involved.although ive never had a frg 7 im sure its a big step up from the portable that you've been using the last time we talked. 'Awesome unit. Looks like it is built to last forever. I would love to acquire one of these one day." thanks zenith,they sure are built to last and im sure ill have this one for its next 40yrs of its life.keep a eye out theyre still out there albeit getting a little pricey but if ones patient they can still be found at estate sales etc.. chris
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I have a RatShak 60' antenna from the side of the house to yon tree, it feeds about all my sets thru a dist amp, but its amazing what these old guys will do w/a 10' or so length of wire draped over the curtain rods...Would STILL love to lug a couple of my babies down to the WBIR TV tower in Blaine, TN, just this side of Knoxville..It was the tallest structure on earth for a few months 1964-65..I'm not even sure they're still using it..But man-oh-man, what a receiving antenna it should be...
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I just strung about 300' of longwire around my property, but I need to tune it properly. I've been listening to hams as far as San Diego and AM stations west of the Rockies on a good day. I regulary pick up hams up and down the east coast, Florida, Maine, NJ, NY, the Carolina's, hams from Ohio usually peg my S-Meter. I've done a few mods on my Yaesu so far, mostly the Gilfer mods, but also did a home brew AGC switch.
I know those Nationals are very highly rated, I don't know much about them since they are normally way out of my price range. Sure looks nice though.
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I got my 183D for seems like $250...Now, I've seen 'em go for a LOT more than that. The HROs usually go for quite a bit, but you really hafta want one of those-the early ones have separate power supply, matched coil sets, speaker, etc.. I'd LOVE to get a set of BCB coil sets for my 50T1...
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hi dan ,
heres a relatively cheap ant tuner/presdelector that might work good with the frghttp://www.universal-radio.com/catal...amps/2964.html "I've done a few mods on my Yaesu so far, mostly the Gilfer mods, but also did a home brew AGC switch. " now why doesnt that surprise me that youve already been in it modding  .sandy ,i paid $275cdn for mine which seemed like alot of money to me at the time but now i realize that i actually did good.i'm currently waiting for the matching speaker to arrive that i bought on that famous site we all love so much.goodluck with the broadcast coils for the 50t1 they are rare and when they do show up command a outrageous price.i have a older hro m sitting here that works great but i sure'd like to get a 50t1 someday myself. chris
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I'm currently trying some home made tuners right now, I found some variable caps out of some old radios and made myself a variable inductor with some wire and a cardboard tube, but haven't tuned it quite right yet. I also put a 4khz Murata filter in it, but I think I need to go narrower for SSB usage. Stock one was 6khz. I'd like to put a 2khz one in for SSB.
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the 6khz is good for am but definately not ssb under crowded conditons.the 4 is ok if not the band is not crowded . i use the 4khz more than the 2.3 in my drake so i think itd be fine.2 khz is getting even a bit narrow for ssb and id try to get something a bit wider like a 2.3 or higher but no higher than 3 or you might as well leave the 4khz in place. cool on the homade tuners.i've had my dad build a few for me a long time ago and they worked fairly well .goodluck and happy listening with the frg. chris
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