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In this video we are highlighting 10 of the coolest vintage amateur radios to look for when you attend a Ham Fest. This is to help all those people new to the amateur radio hobby and to help the rest of you relive fond memories of the rigs from the past. So, click play and hang out with us here while we take a trip through the past.
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If you can find any of the radios made by any of the companies on this list you might want to buy them. They were all great companies that built excellent equipment.
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ah yes the old xingdingalong ?
Thanks for the tip!
Would you know if this newer unit can be modified for HF as well ?
That's why China is kicking our butt trade wise. I bought a Quensheng months ago basically out of curiosity, it's not a bad little radio especially with the all the firmware hacks available.
In my 30 plus years of ham radio, I've never heard the abbreviation for "Peak Envelope Power" pronounced as "pep." I've always here it pronounced by saying the individual letters to make it clear its the abbreviation for Peak Envelope Power, and not referring to a "peppy" radio. Great list of radios by the way, I own several of them and still enjoy operating them.
Nice list. But I don't agree that my little IC-706MKIIG isn't a ham radio. I've had some of the ones on the list since getting my license in 1968. But, my little '706 does the job that a desk full of stuff used to do in one little box. Maybe you were just saying that a radio stuck into a ham isn't really a radio?
my ts440 got 200 watts of pep!
Lol….that ham looked awful damn yummy!!!
My first rig was a Drake TR7A, an awesome piece of gear. Performance-wise, it would hold its own against most modern radios. I'm still kicking myself for ever selling it.
Thanks for the great video..
From your experience which ham radio would provide the longest distance regardless of govt regulation and have unlimited frequencies available?
Yeasu 101 series???
I owned one of the early TR7A. I was on a waiting list for it. I wanted it because it was general coverage receive which was rare back then.
Forget the radios- just keep playing that crazy rock n Roll!
Awesome
Still have & use a Galaxy V
My first transceiver was a FT101mk2, back in 1972. Great radio. Still using YAESU
equipment to this day. G3XYC 73.