Re: This is a Collins ???

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (AComarow) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >>Hammarlund's HQ-215 or -205 (I don't recall the exact model
> >>number) comes to mind--a nondescript receiver coupled with a CB transmitter.
> >
> >HQ-105TR - it was an HQ-100 with a one-tube one-channel 5 watt 10 or 11 meter
> >rig inside (used the rx audio system for the modulator). Circa 1958  - not a
> >desperation move by Hammarlund, just a marketing attempt. 
> >
> >The HQ-215 (1968 or so) was meant to be a solid-state top-end rx. It used the
> >same het scheme as the Collins S-line and it could (in theory, anyway)
> >transceive with a 32S-3. But I doubt many Collins fans wanted one!
> >
> >>But the RME 6900 was a very good radio, at least in my opinion. It performed
> >>well and looked pretty neat, and was priced well below the top of
> >>hamband-only
> >>receivers.
> >
> >How did it compare with, say, a 75A-4?
> >
> >73 de Jim, N2EY
> 
> Thanks for setting me straight on the Hammarlunds, although I'd still bet the
> company didn't sell many 105TRs.

Agreed! The HQ-100 had a lot of compromises - not even a separate BFO!
The -100A was an improvement.
> 
> As for the RME-6900 vs. a 75A-4, no fair. Not even close, nor did it pretend
> to be. It was in the price class of an HQ-170. It lacked mechanical filters
>(among
> other 75A-4 features) and certainly wasn't overbuilt like the A-4. It was more
> comparable to a 75S-3, and even then there was really not much of a contest. I
> sold mine because I had an HQ-170A that I preferred because of the slot filter,
> audio performance, and flexibility.

All that makes sense. Probably why '170s are so much more common than
'6900s.

> But one of the things I liked about the RME
> was its one knob, one function design, with nice big knobs.

YES!

This is one feature that I always admired in the Collins 75A series.
Big, serious controls, nothing tiny or dainty.

> I'm not much on
> multifunction controls. I keep forgetting how to access the secondary and
> tertiary functions and even what they are.

I agree 100%. I have incorporated that philosophy in all my homebrew
rigs, too.

73 de Jim, N2EY
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