Bill:
My xYL hates sardines, but they look good together !
In the late 70’s the community had a fetish for canned seafood and DC receivers. Do you remember the 80m Sardine Sender ? How about YL Special ? (QST Oct and Jan 1979.) I married them together in a kludged-together box made out of a bent rack-mount panel and defunct aluminum chassis cover.
The bottom board is the rock-bound transmitter. The upper deck is the receiver board. The little mini box contains VFO (so cute.) The 741 audio board is tucked under the scrounged ΒΌ inch jacks.
Super simple, but lots of fun. It’s a handy rig for the week at the beach, although 80m propagation and beach week are 6 months out of phase.
Ed Hlywa
KA4IBG
“YY Special” … for “Yankee Yowler”
And very cool!~