Don't forget the heathkit sb-104
True solid state with NO tuning.
Even the TT 505 you had to peak the resonate control.
Mike wb8vge
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> On Oct 2, 2014, at 10:41 AM, "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de> wrote:
>
> Interesting, but so far just marketing fluff.
>
> I'm skeptical about the effectiveness of the Collins filters.
> Sure they sound good, because they have skirts like a female square dancer!
>
> Unless my memory deceives me, the Triton was not the first 50 or 100w SSB
> transceiver.
> I think that honor goes to SWAN with its SS-100 (50w) and SS-200 (100w).
> However Ten-Tec had the Argonaut 505 before the two Swans came out.
>
> I used a Swan SS-100 on my first DX-pedition to Andorra in 1975.
> The other op with me (now 5Z4EE) had purchased it new when it first came out
> but I can't remember when exactly that was.
>
> It was a very close race and perhaps I'm wrong, but I believe Swan was first
> by an inch.
> However shortly thereafter SWAN went out of business, so it didn't help them
> much.
>
> Then if my memory serves me right, the OM who designed the two SS
> transceivers founded Atlas after leaving Swan.
>
> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
> (Nr. Frankfurt am
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