{"id":8343,"date":"2011-07-13T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/armands-2-b-x3\/"},"modified":"2011-07-13T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T00:19:00","slug":"armands-2-b-x3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/armands-2-b-x3\/","title":{"rendered":"Armand’s 2-B (X3)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Good morning Bill!,<\/p>\n

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Let me start of by letting you off the hook (a little anyway), by saying that I no longer hold you responsible for the escalating values of the Drake 2B. After acquiring one, cleaning it , recapping and tweaking it, it’s pretty clear that the 2B doesn’t need anyone to sing its praises. It sings pretty well all on its own! Having said that, I really have to thank you for nudging me into finally getting one for myself. After a lot of searching I finally found one that was in not too bad shape for its age. I also found two others that were in less than working condition. For a while I was troubled as you were about having more than one Solid State Design. Is it really ethical for someone to have more than one 2B? Fortunately I can rationalize with the best of them. It’s obvious that I will only own them for a while and am saving them from the scrap heap. Maybe we could start a 2B rescue organization?<\/span><\/div>\n
Also thanks for the WARC and 160M tuning template – much appreciated!
The serial numbers for these sets are<\/span><\/div>\n

2599, 5149, and 12038<\/span><\/div>\n

Will be neat to get an estimate for the final count. Good luck!<\/span><\/div>\n

Also wanted to mention that I really enjoyed SolderSmoke “the book”. Will there be a second volume? Enough for now.<\/span><\/div>\n

Keep the solder flowing and the podcasts and blogs comming. <\/span><\/div>\n
Thanks again,<\/span><\/div>\n
73’s <\/span><\/div>\n
Armand WA1UQO<\/span><\/div>\n
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p.s. If you have an extra set of crystals for a 2B that you would be willing to part with, let me know.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good morning Bill!, Let me start of by letting you off the hook (a little anyway), by saying that I no longer hold you responsible for the escalating values of the Drake 2B. After acquiring one, cleaning it , recapping and tweaking it, it’s pretty clear that the 2B doesn’t need anyone to sing its … Continue reading “Armand’s 2-B (X3)”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drake-2b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343","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=8343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}