Hi Don, the "lunchbox" is a Heathkit HW-19 simple transceiver.
http://www.heathkit-museum.com/ham/hvmhw-19-29-30.shtml I don't know why the output is only about .6 watts. Maybe the rig needs service. I have not done anything to it except clean the tube sockets and tweak the adjustments. The antenna used was a simple homemade vertical "J-pole" made from wire and a piece of ladder line modeled after this design:
http://www.dxzone.com/cgi-bin/dir/jump2.cgi?ID=19622The antenna is simply pulled up into a tree, and the bottom of the antenna is at about 35ft height. The mic I used on the rig is a D-104 with the original preamp gutted and replaced with a single FET preamp. It drives the modulator pretty heavily. Actually this was the first QSO that I made with the thing! The transmitter needs a vfo of some kind or a handful of xtals.
What kind of setup are you thinking about setting up?
..........Larry