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My father was heavily-involved in REACT when I was a little sprout. At age 10 ~13, I used to 'man' Dad's base station in Hialeah, FL with the beam pointed WNW on weekends, while he patrolled RT#27 from Hialeah out to "Yehaw Junction", or "20-Mile Bend", (depending upon radio conditions). I had...

The PL-259 is the standard, or most commonly used connector found for CB/ham gear.

I've never seen one of those before, but just wanted to say, that's one of the "prettiest" amps I've ever seen! "Aesthetics alone", that's a keeper! Kind of like the Palomar 300A series. Right purdy!

Yep.... He's on Super Bowl as soon as conditions open up.

I would just build it, test it, and see what difference I needed to make up to get the input impedance to 50 ohms. I predict, it WILL be an issue, but an easy one to address, once it is a known value.

I think it's plenty sexy. I personally feel the Turner+3 is a better mic than anything else. Just personal preference, I know --- But D-104's are just difficult to actually use, even tho they sound just as good as the Turner.

Your thinking isn't skewed at all. But there will be an issue dis-similar metals at the turnbuckle's connection point to the wire. That, and it's hardly worth the hassle in the end. I would simply use the thickest wire you can get. The thicker, the more broad-banded the final antenna will be...

Git er done!

RF is AC current at a spec'd frequency and power level. Adding a diode in-series will rectify that AC, turning it into DC. What you'll hear on the RX end would sound more like a machine gun, rather than anything intelligible. But diodes ARE essential and used to isolate the signal for sampling it.

Unfortunately, your amp was never biased for SSB. Sure, it has a capacitor that delays relay drop to RX so it can be used on SSB without the relay 'chattering', along with a switch to put that cap into/out of play --- but it's always gonna sound like crap to everyone's RX. And nothing practical...

RFparts.com has the 2sc2166c, but not the 2312.

I know there were other bench techs that used the same 'techniques' when working on radios, but that sure looks like something that was on my bench back in the day! The 'checked component' and alignment marks, as well as the re-waxed tank coils was something that was inside every rig that left...

Very cool--- Box n all, too! Pristine!

Here's a $16 kit for those who have the eyes and skills to tackle some surface-mount level repairs; EDIT! Apparently, they sold the last kit I linked to. Hopefully, this is temporary. ??? I'll leave it up in hopes that it is temporary...

I like mine. They went out of production in 2002, so they're a tad long in the tooth. But considering their cost ($2800 MSRP) when they were, that asking price isn't bad. I paid $650 for mine about a year ago, and have no regrets. I needed it like I needed an extra hole in the head, but I just...

And this is the Garage/shop/man cave, where I used to spend MOST of my free time. Not so much these days --- especially durrung the Summer. Even tho there IS A/C out there, it's just not enough to compensate on some days. It reached 98 today.

This is how it ALWAYS looks, so yes, I AM living in here. This is the "radio room";

I had an old tube type amp like that, but it was made by another outfit. The name "Bengal" is all I recall. And yes, like others have stated, it sounded cool when keyed-up. The transistor tripplers cried "Wee wee wee" all the way home.

This behavior has been considered 'normal' for at least one generation. But it's getting pretty bad lately, ever since it's NOW considered 'normal behavior'. Sad. On a personal level; The "exodus effect" from blue areas to Florida is clogging our roads and causing a huge local boom in housing...

That was a big one! It may have been a coiniky-dink, but it may be what got my main computer last night. I came in here this morning and my radio's computer had locked-up... Since 2015, this was a 'first'. I had to unplug and reboot both computers. The main computer came up in BIOS, and the...