When the 807 was young

[KC4VWU]

Hey Al,
            Catch up with K5UJ, I think he was looking for some info on the Eldico.

Phil

[w1vtp]

Hey Al,
            Catch up with K5UJ, I think he was looking for some info on the Eldico.

Phil

Rob and I have been corresponding Phil.  He has a copy of the schematic.  At some point in time it was going to show up on this forum, I think.

Anyway, I'm jealous of Rob.  When I bought the manual, I asked the guy who sold it to me and someone else got the transmitter.  Shame the transmitter and manual got separated but at least it's my partial gain.

Al

[k4kyv]

Remember when in popular amateur radio slang a bottle of beer used to be called an 807?  I suppose the shape of the tube and that of the old long neck bottles did have a slight resemblance, and so did the post WW2 brown "mud" bakelite tube base with the traditional amber colored glass of a beer bottle.

My kid works at a local microbrewery.  I have mentioned to him that they ought to release a line of brew under the name "807", and make a point to get it to hamfest venues. But it's probably too late.  Like class-C amplifiers, point-to-point wiring and separate transmitters and receivers, the whole concept of the "807" would be lost on 90% of to-day's amateur radio community.

[Pete, WA2CWA]

You guys must have missed this TR-1 thread from several weeks ago:
http://amfone.net/Amforum/index.php?topic=24779.0

I would suggest Al, if you plan on keeping that manual, to take the original schematic to a copy shop and get a full size replication and/or a more flexible reduced replication. The original schematic was printed on acidic-type paper which ages very badly (paper keeps getting darker and darker). As it does, the drawn lines slowly fade into the darkness.

[Detroit47]

How about the VT-100 going to war. I just love the wax on the pins.

John N8QPC

[Detroit47]

'At thar is a Elkin super 12! Actually,Phil

Those Elkins were one of the best engineered CB boxes around. When it was made it used 6DQ5B's. It was the only grid driven CB amplifier I ever saw that was actually neutralized. They were also unique in that their mobile amps used ferrite transformers, and a much higher switching frequency than others. Believe it or not they looked good on a spectrum analyzer when tuned up properly.
John N8QPC

[KC4VWU]

John,
         Being from the general area, I know both of the guys who produced them. It probably goes back several years even before I was born, but I do know the first ones used 1625's. As time went on, they switched to the DQ6B octal based tubes in 6 and 12 volt heater ratings. ESC at one point in time became a dealer for Zenith, which oddly enough used the 6 and 12DQ6 tubes as horizontal output amps in their t.v.'s. Makes one wonder if they had a high warranty claim rate on tubes.

Just some interesting local lore FYI.

Phil

[Detroit47]

Phil

I still see them come in once in a while for service. I never saw one with 1625/807. I have seen all the variants though Boomer, Loundenboomer. But none with those tubes, I still say they were a well built box to still be around.
John