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Post by BBB on Sept 29, 2016 12:17:50 GMT -5
Saw this you tube video gate on another forum and thought it was pretty cool. I don't notice the accents much because it basically came from our back yard, haha. Maybe someone might remember some of these Philly operators. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1SrjPobPfY |
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Post by Sandbagger on Sept 30, 2016 6:33:19 GMT -5
Saw this you tube video gate on another forum and thought it was pretty cool. I don't notice the accents much because it basically came from our back yard, haha. Maybe someone might remember some of these Philly operators. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1SrjPobPfYWatching the pictures that went along with this gate made me aware of something I didn't know before. I was not aware that the "older"(oldest?) version of the Lafayette Comstat 23 was nearly identical to the Comstat 25. The later, more familiar version of the Comstat 23 lacked the fine tuning control, fewer tubes, and utilized electronic switching, and was generally marketed as a "budget" version in the Comstat series. I'm not a Lafayette radio historian by any means, but what likely happened there was that the Comstat 23 came first (sporting that 100 mW switch) ~1965. Then the Comstat 25 came out featuring 25 channels (the H.E.L.P. channels 22A, 22B) and also had the 100mW switch. But then the H.E.L.P. program was scrapped and those two channels had to be removed (as did the 100 mW switch), and the result was the Comstat 25A, which was now identical to the Comstat 23 in features. So they cost/feature reduced the Comstat 23, to differentiate it from the 25A, and gave it a black channel selector knob. But I've never seen an original Comstat 23, and I don't think CBTricks carries the schematic for that one either. |
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