Hello Jay:

That's some great equipment.......I didn't know Johnson made a 2 channel SSB
unit. I'd love to see a pic of it. I can't remember the make, but in the
early 70's I bought a used tube base station that was AM and Double Side
Band. It was pretty old at the time I got my hands on it. We'd all hang on
ch 16, and then slide down to "145" .......alot of fun memories. Thanks for
the post.

R.F. Burns


"Jay in the Mojave" wrote in message
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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.






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