{"id":8691,"date":"2015-09-15T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/09\/15\/alan-re-caps-his-drake-2-b\/"},"modified":"2015-09-15T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T23:47:00","slug":"alan-re-caps-his-drake-2-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/09\/15\/alan-re-caps-his-drake-2-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Re-Caps His Drake 2-B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x8zILP61RA4?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <strong>That Drake 2-B is a beautiful thing. Every time I look at an older tube rig I&#8217;m reminded of the three dimensionality of these old machines. Solid-state rigs are in Flatland, but tube rigs are in three dimensions. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Alan makes a very cool use of the I-pad in this repair. And I&#8217;m jealous of his Hayseed Hamfest Electrolytic (I opted for the multiple caps hanging below the chassis). Excellent management of the solder-sucker by Alan. And I was impressed by the disciplined way he pulls solder from the reel &#8212; he has the reel right next tot he rig and dispenses it directly. I tend to hack off small lengths of solder and end up with lots of little bits of solder on the bench. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Glad to hear that the other caps on the Drake are standing the test of time. I wish the same could be said for all the caps in my Heath HW-101. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>One thing caught my eye in Alan&#8217;s video: The dial cord. You know you have become a true 2-B aficionado when you have actually gotten good at replacing the dial cord. It is something of a rite of passage. Perhaps this will serve as the basis for a future video by W2AEW, <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Thanks Alan! And congrats on passing 4 MILLION YouTube views. People watch because your videos are so good.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That Drake 2-B is a beautiful thing. Every time I look at an older tube rig I&#8217;m reminded of the three dimensionality of these old machines. Solid-state rigs are in Flatland, but tube rigs are in three dimensions. Alan makes a very cool use of the I-pad in this repair. And I&#8217;m jealous of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/09\/15\/alan-re-caps-his-drake-2-b\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alan Re-Caps His Drake 2-B&#8221;<\/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":[6,100,97,101,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drake-2b","category-old-radio","category-solder","category-tubes","category-wolke-alan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691","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=8691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}