This was always one of the wish we could afford radio's in the day....far too much for a 16 year old at school to be able to afford. i did get one eventually, and it was worth the wait.
My brother and I had one of the original 23 channel Bengal bases with a 1/4 wave ground plane base antenna as teenagers back in the late 70's We were lucky enough that our mother bought it for us even though we weren't well off Good radio No longer have it but still have the old QSL cards we were sent in an old style photo album
I think this radio cmae out under more names than any other one. I personally have a Universe SSB-5600 that is Canada certified and exactly the same inside and out except brushed aluminum and not woodgrain. There was also the Colt black shadow, dick smith sold one all black with the old australia bandplan, alaron sold one, pierce simpson, and a few others
lol nods fast 1kw 1.5kw is pretty common on 11m and it's funny how many openly admit using such power, i have a chap i talk to an old ham who lives very remote in the NT its his the only way he talks to the outside world no mobile phone coverage so he runs 1.5kw at the antenna on 11m.
Great old radio, i have one infact i have all 3 Super Bengals base stations.
This was always one of the wish we could afford radio's in the day....far too much for a 16 year old at school to be able to afford. i did get one eventually, and it was worth the wait.
My brother and I had one of the original 23 channel Bengal bases with a 1/4 wave ground plane base antenna as teenagers back in the late 70's
We were lucky enough that our mother bought it for us even though we weren't well off
Good radio
No longer have it but still have the old QSL cards we were sent in an old style photo album
With a leson power Mike!
Nice chat lads
I thought channel 11 was deserted years ago. Channel 11 used to be packed in the day.
I think this radio cmae out under more names than any other one. I personally have a Universe SSB-5600 that is Canada certified and exactly the same inside and out except brushed aluminum and not woodgrain. There was also the Colt black shadow, dick smith sold one all black with the old australia bandplan, alaron sold one, pierce simpson, and a few others
Hoarding is good to a degree til you run out of room 73
lol nods fast 1kw 1.5kw is pretty common on 11m and it's funny how many openly admit using such power, i have a chap i talk to an old ham who lives very remote in the NT its his the only way he talks to the outside world no mobile phone coverage so he runs 1.5kw at the antenna on 11m.
Still have one probably just as nice. Totally useless unless you want to go back quaaart to read the mail and wave the hand.