{"id":7673,"date":"2011-09-01T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/01\/the-oldest-2-b-i-say-its-a-10\/"},"modified":"2011-09-01T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T23:57:00","slug":"the-oldest-2-b-i-say-its-a-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/01\/the-oldest-2-b-i-say-its-a-10\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oldest 2-B? (I say it’s a 10!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Harv: Wow, that’s a beautiful 2-B OM. I give it a 10. If you compare it to mine, it’s a 20! I checked our collection point <\/a>for 2-B serial numbers and see that we have a couple that may be rivals in the title “Senior 2-B.” Thanks for pointing out that they started at #2000.
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Hi Bill,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What makes a radio a 10 out of 10?<\/span><\/p>\n

Good question. A real 10 to me <\/span>means the radio is flawless, clean, not repainted and the best example possible based upon age and general appearance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is one of <\/span>my Drake 2B Communication Receivers with the matching Speaker\/Q Multiplier.<\/span><\/p>\n

This one has the S\/N 2532 which, places the production of this radio close to early Spring 1961. <\/span>The radio is not flawless. It has very minor metal edge dings in the paint. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I have the original Owners Manual and lots of special notes. At best my pictured radio above is a 9.5. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In my collection is also; <\/span>S\/N 4226 which was built near the end of 1961. <\/span>I rate S\/N 4226 as a 9.8 radio. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m impressed with the AVG recovery, general receiver <\/span>sensitivity and the <\/span>combination selectivity afforded by the Q-Multiplier.<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe the Drake web site is spot on with the dating of the production runs for Drake equipment. <\/span><\/p>\n

From talking to other Hams, it looks like the 2B started with S\/N 2000 on their first full run of production in early April 1961.<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be interesting to see if others find radios with a serial number less than mine still out there pulling duty. <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure some pilot radios are out there in private collections. Let me know if someone finds an earlier serial number.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keep up the great work Bill!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

ENJOY<\/span><\/p>\n

HARV -=WA3EIB=-<\/span><\/p>\n

Albuquerque, NM<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Harv: Wow, that’s a beautiful 2-B OM. I give it a 10. If you compare it to mine, it’s a 20! I checked our collection point for 2-B serial numbers and see that we have a couple that may be rivals in the title “Senior 2-B.” Thanks for pointing out that they started at #2000. … Continue reading “The Oldest 2-B? (I say it’s a 10!)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,100,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drake-2b","category-old-radio","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}