I can't believe someone paid $127.50 for the inter connect cables for a set
of Drake twins. That's just my opinion, and of course I could be wrong!


DRAKE C-LINE CABLES NEW! SWITCHCRAFT WITH LABELS! R-4C
$127.50



Mike-K5VSE
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K5VSE wrote:

I can't believe someone paid $127.50 for the inter connect cables for a set
of Drake twins. That's just my opinion, and of course I could be wrong!


DRAKE C-LINE CABLES NEW! SWITCHCRAFT WITH LABELS! R-4C
$127.50

Geezus. Some of us hams are like audiophools. I think I have a sheet of
those Brady wraparound labels in a junkbox somewhere here that somebody
could have taken away from me for $5 if they bothered to ask. Not now!
(Yeah, I know those cables tended to be picky about length, etc so don't
lecture me about that.)
Then again some folks simply have more money than sense and that
bolloxes up things for us regular folk so its NOT OK that some Mick does
something stupid leaving the rest of us to pay the ultimate price
afterwards.

-Bill

I got my whole "C" line for $350.00, including a nice set of cables. And
the WORKED!!! Got them on the air daily. Only thing I really did was to
repaint the cabinets, as they showed normal wear for a rig that old. It just
struck me a little strange to see someone pay THAT much for a set of cables.
I even got my TR-4 for only $75.00 and use it from the shop pretty near on a
daily basis as well. Oh well, some folks, as you say got more money than
sense.

Have a nice day!


--
Mike-K5VSE
Formerly WB6VSE, senior tech, amateur division
SBE/Linear Systems, Watsonville, CA
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I am not supporting the price, but I seem to recall that the capacity of one
of the cables that interconnect the two VFOs was critical and regular cable
could not be used....
But we are taxing the brain cells back to the late 70s when I owned the
Twins

--
Carl
WA1KPD
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http://home.comcast.net/~chnord/wa1kpd.html

"K5VSE" wrote in message
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I got my whole "C" line for $350.00, including a nice set of cables. And
the WORKED!!! Got them on the air daily. Only thing I really did was to
repaint the cabinets, as they showed normal wear for a rig that old. It
just struck me a little strange to see someone pay THAT much for a set of
cables.
I even got my TR-4 for only $75.00 and use it from the shop pretty near on
a daily basis as well. Oh well, some folks, as you say got more money than
sense.

Have a nice day!


--
Mike-K5VSE
Formerly WB6VSE, senior tech, amateur division
SBE/Linear Systems, Watsonville, CA
All out going mail scanned with Norton AntiVirus 2005
APA-220, USS Okanogan, LSD-31, USS Point Defiance
On 3.922 nightly
Restoring and using Drake Radios! TR-4C, RV-4C, TR-4, T4X-C, R4-C
In God We Trust
Web site:
http://members.tripod.com/sjsharks/index.html

I don't think the cables are critical. I have a Drake pair and all I've
ever used to connect them is some generic RCA to RCA cables. I've never had
any problems and in fact, I didn't even know Drake made a special set of
cables to connect the twins.


Larry



"Carl WA1KPD" wrote in message
...
I am not supporting the price, but I seem to recall that the capacity of
one of the cables that interconnect the two VFOs was critical and regular
cable could not be used....
But we are taxing the brain cells back to the late 70s when I owned the
Twins

--
Carl
WA1KPD
Visit My Boatanchor Collection at
http://home.comcast.net/~chnord/wa1kpd.html

"K5VSE" wrote in message
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I got my whole "C" line for $350.00, including a nice set of cables. And
the WORKED!!! Got them on the air daily. Only thing I really did was to
repaint the cabinets, as they showed normal wear for a rig that old. It
just struck me a little strange to see someone pay THAT much for a set of
cables.
I even got my TR-4 for only $75.00 and use it from the shop pretty near
on a daily basis as well. Oh well, some folks, as you say got more money
than sense.

Have a nice day!


--
Mike-K5VSE
Formerly WB6VSE, senior tech, amateur division
SBE/Linear Systems, Watsonville, CA
All out going mail scanned with Norton AntiVirus 2005
APA-220, USS Okanogan, LSD-31, USS Point Defiance
On 3.922 nightly
Restoring and using Drake Radios! TR-4C, RV-4C, TR-4, T4X-C, R4-C
In God We Trust
Web site:
http://members.tripod.com/sjsharks/index.html

Value of an item is determined by the free market (Ebay in this case) and
not by what one person believes it to be worth.

--

Clif

"K5VSE" wrote in message
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I can't believe someone paid $127.50 for the inter connect cables for a set
of Drake twins. That's just my opinion, and of course I could be wrong!


DRAKE C-LINE CABLES NEW! SWITCHCRAFT WITH LABELS! R-4C
$127.50



Mike-K5VSE
Formerly WB6VSE, senior tech, amateur division
SBE/Linear Systems, Watsonville, CA
All out going mail scanned with Norton AntiVirus 2005
APA-220, USS Okanogan, LSD-31, USS Point Defiance
On 3.922 nightly
Restoring and using Drake Radios! TR-4C, RV-4C, TR-4, T4X-C, R4-C
In God We Trust
Web site:
http://members.tripod.com/sjsharks/index.html