Rick,
And best to you and everyone at home coming into Christmas.
I was looking over my shoulder wondering if you remember a story in my past or something, regarding the old Class D activity. Turns out a version of it was posted by me on here, Dec. 2005.
Well anyway,
It was Christmas, 1968 or so, and my Dad picked up a Shady O'Rack
Americana 23-Plus, which had a tube final and the "half channel" also known as 22A.
This was to be my first "base station," after me and a friend of mine, Scott Adams, used to play commando in the woods with our handheld
TRC-1A (also a Tandy product), a two channel CB walkie-talkie.
Had me a Super-Mag II, ground plane vertical on the roof of the house, and figured out the "tune" and "load" controls on the back of the radio were interesting.
Anyway, just about every year coming into Christmas I think about cool stuff we would get as kids, and that was one of the items.
Today, no, there are no covert 27MHz rods in the tree ...
But I still play commando with our Military Working Dog, and some girl you know. The handheld in the vest pocket is a Motorola MT1000 on VHF.
Merry Christmas Paul. I see you slipping that 27Mhz vertical up inside the faux 'tree,' um, hmmm.
..And from the look of the slip covers it looks like the dogs have the run of the place.