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This really doesn't belong in rec.antiques.radio+phono.  I see it was
crossposted to some of the more appropriate newsgroups, and I am
leaving the crosspostings in this response, because my response to the
questions will give some idea what rec.antiques.radio+phono is about.
I have set followups to rec.radio.amateur.equipment.

In article <CzzLKJ.AsI@nntpa.cb.att.com>,
Joseph Weiner <jsw@physics.att.com> wrote:
>I am getting back on the air after many years. I have a
>Drake T4XB transmitter and Hammarlund HQ170AC-VHF receiver
>that I had bought in the sixties. It is clear to me that
>the Hammarlund has got to go. The question is:

Our group's focus is on home entertainment items---acoustic phonos and
old radios, primarily from the 1920-50 period.  While there is some
discussion of tube-type "boatanchor" communications radios, it is
generally of older general-coverage sets.  The mail list
boatanchors@gnu.ai.mit.edu is a good place to get information on things
like HQ-170's and old transmitters.
>
>1. Is it worth getting a used Drake R4B receiver from somewhere
> or is equipment so much better these days that it is not
>worth bothering?
Most of us would rather have a Philco chairside, an old Atwater Kent,
or a Hallicraftrs SX-17.  I've got a postwar Magnavox, an HQ-150, and
an RME-45, all working fine, and wouldn't trade any of them for a Drake.
Can't get the French and Canadian (french) shortwave stations with a
Drake.

>2. What is the going rate to buy an R4B and where would
>   I get one?
Not very likely here.  A Drake is a ham receiver, not home
entertainment.

>3. What would the going rates be to sell the T4XB or HQ170
>   and where would I sell them? Are they collectors' items?
Once again, this is not an amateur radio newsgroup.

>4. How have xmtrs & rcvrs improved in the last 25 years?
>   Sensitivity, selectivity, stability, features, programmability?

Define "improved."  A lot of our readers think that a Victor
Orthophonic is superior to an electric phonograph.
>
These questions are about getting active in ham radio, and there are
newsgroups that are directed toward that purpose, which this item was
posted to.  It shouldn't have been crossposted here.  This is an
antiques group, created to take discussion of home entertainment stuff
out of rec.antiques.  There are several amateur radio groups, and we
don't attempt to fill any gaps in them in this group---if, indeed,
there are any.

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In article <CzzLKJ.AsI@nntpa.cb.att.com> jsw@physics.att.com (Joseph Weiner) writes:
>I am getting back on the air after many years. I have a
>Drake T4XB transmitter and Hammarlund HQ170AC-VHF receiver
>that I had bought in the sixties. It is clear to me that
>the Hammarlund has got to go. The question is:
>
>1. Is it worth getting a used Drake R4B receiver from somewhere
> or is equipment so much better these days that it is not
>worth bothering?
>2. What is the going rate to buy an R4B and where would
>   I get one?
2~
Try the Smithsonian |-)
2~	Just kidding welcome back. About 15 years ago everything
changed to synthesised rigs. You can get a used one for quite cheap
from 10yrs ago that does 90% of what a new one does (IMHO). I was
out of it for 20yrs too. Things changed a lot in the 70;s.

	Joe NA3T mack@ncifcrf.gov


>3. What would the going rates be to sell the T4XB or HQ170
>   and where would I sell them? Are they collectors' items?
>4. How have xmtrs & rcvrs improved in the last 25 years?
>   Sensitivity, selectivity, stability, features, programmability?
>
>Note: I started when I was 9 yrs old so I am not as old as
>this msg makes me seem.
>
>Thanks,
>Joe

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> Subject: Drake T4XB+ HQ170AC-VHF. Keep or Dump?
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>
> I am getting back on the air after many years. I have a
> Drake T4XB transmitter and Hammarlund HQ170AC-VHF receiver
> that I had bought in the sixties. It is clear to me that
> the Hammarlund has got to go. The question is:
>
> 1. Is it worth getting a used Drake R4B receiver from somewhere
>  or is equipment so much better these days that it is not
> worth bothering?
> 2. What is the going rate to buy an R4B and where would
>    I get one?
> 3. What would the going rates be to sell the T4XB or HQ170
>    and where would I sell them? Are they collectors' items?
> 4. How have xmtrs & rcvrs improved in the last 25 years?
>    Sensitivity, selectivity, stability, features, programmability?
>
> Note: I started when I was 9 yrs old so I am not as old as
> this msg makes me seem.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
JOE:  You probably want a serious reply to your question, not just a lot of
FLABS (Folklore and B___ S___). But, it's the end of a long week and I've been
adjustingmy attitude with 12-year-old single malt Scotch, so here goes.  Do not
dump those two old classics.  I was licensed in 1958 and will be 50 years old
next week.  I drive a 72 VW Beetle, write with a Parker 51 fountain pen given
to me by my grandfather when I entered high school, and cut my grass with a
push mower.  Keep the old stuff.  Clean it up.  Get some tuner cleaner at RAdio
Shack and blast all the variable capacitors and potentiometers'; that will
clean out a lot of the problems.  Replace the fileter capacitors.  Make a list
of the tube types and whenvever you encounter tubes for sale, buy some.  Of
course, you probably ought ot go ahead and buy yourself a recent model rice box
from ICOM (I use the IC-129; the IC-735 is a classic), Kenwood, or Yaesu and
get on the air.  But, keep the old stuff.  Make yur ice cream in a hand-cranked
freezer.  Drink our beer from the bottle.  Be eccentric.  You only live once
and it's your life.