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Mate for Drake 2-B	Reply
by K8HRO on October 6, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
I have a Drake 2-B that I have been using as a SWL receiver for many years now. Recently I thought it might be interesting to mate a transmitter to it and make a nice little vintage rig. The question is, what transmitter? I'd like to do both CW and SSB if possible. Answers need not be restricted to Drake gear. All suggestions will be welcome.

RE: Mate for Drake 2-B	Reply
by WW3QB on October 6, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
The 2-B's mate would be the 2-NT, a CW only Novice transmitter. For phone, it would also be used with non-Drake gear such as the Heathkit Apache (often with the SB-10 SSB adapter).

RE: Mate for Drake 2-B	Reply
by W8ZNX on October 7, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
the 2-NT was / is not the mate to the 2-B the Drake 2-C receiver was the mate to the 2-NT there is no matching Drake transmitter for the 2-B when the 1-A, 2-A, and 2-B receivers were made Drake was not building transmitters anyway most ops then did not bother with matching lash ups would mix and match what they wanted in a lash up one of the most popular lash ups with the Drake 2-B receiver was the Hallicrafters HT-37 transmitter in its day it was the one of the best bangs for your bucks in a SSB CW lash up it is still a great combo hook your 2-B to any old transmitter works great dit dit mac

RE: Mate for Drake 2-B	Reply
by WA9FZB on October 7, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
Mac, I'll second that notion of the Drake 2-B and the HT-37. That's the rig I ran from the mid-1960's through the early 1980's. Still have them, just don't get to use them much -- newer rigs beckon. . . 73 Steve WA9FZB

RE: Mate for Drake 2-B	Reply
by WB2WIK on October 7, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
40 years ago I used my 2-B with a Johnson Ranger. Of course it didn't match cosmetically, but they're from the same era and worked great together. (Ranger is CW-AM only.) If you want something that works SSB also, I'd pick an HT-37, HT-46, 32S1, something from "the era." WB2WIK/6

RE: Mate for Drake 2-B	Reply
by AD4U on October 7, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
For what it is worth, about 3 years ago I bought a Drake 2NT crystal control, 50 watt CW only transmitter that I use with my Drake 2B receiver. I have only one crystal - 7.022 MHz. My antenna is a 40 meter dipole about 70 feet high fed with RG213 coax. I do not own a "tuner" or a balun. In casual CW operating I have worked around 273 countries in the past 3 years. Somehow I find this much more appealing than using a modern, digital read-out, blinkey light, computer controlled rig, of which I have several. Enjoy your 2B. It is still a great receiver and if it ever breaks, you can still find parts to fix it. Dick AD4U

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