Hello R.F. Burns:

Oh man does that web site fire up old memories, Big TEN-4.

My first SSB Radio was a Johnson 350 Transistorized 2 channel radio,
when you screamed into the mic you might get 2 watts. But the Contex 500
helped maters out some on the base. hehehehehehehe

Dear ol Dad had a 104 foot long commercial fishing boat during the late
1960's and early 1970's, we had a General Radiotelephone Super MC-11A,
the Johnson 350 SSB only radio, and a Mustang 100 two tube linear amp,
made by the technicians and engineers at General Radiotelephone. And Dad
replace the old 1938 Aircraft Bendix Radio Direction Finder Antenna with
a two element quad beam antenna that allowed us to DF (Direction Find)
the other fishing boats on the CB Band. The old pre W.W II Bendix DR
Radio had a large aluminum box that was mounted to the wheel house
ceiling, that had a wheel on the bottom to turn the antenna, that its
pointed direction was indicated on a Compass Rose display in a circle,
so you knew where the antenna was pointed, and after a while we got
really good at DF (Direction Finding) the fishing fleet even as far away
as 40 miles away.

Most all the fishing fleets called the CB the "Mickey Mouse" meaning if
won't travel too far, most fishing boats used a vertical dipole antenna
made from hardware store wire and cheap rg58 coax. So hot fishing
locations, techniques, and fish count for the day where talked about
more freely than the Marine HF Frequencies. But there where also marine
pirate frequencies used by the fishing fleets. So this justified a CB DF
type capability.

Then there was the Cobra 138, 23 channel modified into a 50 or 60
channel SSB and AM radio. Then came the Mark Sidewinder model 27, a six
channel only SSB radio. Then the Tempo 1, Yeasu's my favorite was the
902 DM.

We all had a blast. Dear ol Dad would drive and steer the boat, whiles
shooting skip, and monitoring the marine radios.

Then upgrading to the Icom 760, and now Icom 760 II. And other radios.

I found a mint Tempo 1 that I picked for a few bucks and it works great!

Glad to see the web site

Jay in the Mojave



R. F. Burns wrote:
"Hamguy" wrote in message
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Here's the new URL: http://www.radiowrench.com/siltronix/




Thats a nice site. Remember the "tempo one"? Kind of reminds me of that. I
had Simba with a pal VFO long ago. I think it MAY have gone up to around
"375"....drifty as hell, too. But it was fun.