A really old school modded Tram Diamond 60

[BahamaDon]

Thought you guys might enjoy seeing this old road warrior of a Tram Diamond 60. Has mod to slide up as high as 27.555. The external slider and mods were done by a really skilled local tech, back in the day. He built quite a few of them like this one. Amazingly this thing still works perfectly, despite sitting on a garage shelf for the last 30 years, untouched. Still hits 25w on SSB. Got a good DX radio check first try, yesterday, running barefoot. Guess I will give it a little TLC, as it is still a great old rig, and I had forgotten how well it performs.

 

[midnight special]

i have 2 ,,, 1 since 1978 the 78 has upper and lower chnnls and clarifier opened up,,, ssb is so good on it,,, it is rough but still workgood,,also have a tram 40 qnd xl5 and tram d62,, looking for a d 80 base is a d300 and have a 201 nedingtlc

 

[BahamaDon]

i have 2 ,,, 1 since 1978 the 78 has upper and lower chnnls and clarifier opened up,,, ssb is so good on it,,, it is rough but still workgood,,also have a tram 40 qnd xl5 and tram d62,, looking for a d 80 base is a d300 and have a 201 nedingtlc

You are right, I had forgotten how good these old Trams are on SSB, they are so much nicer than I remembered! I got England and Australia yesterday with a little 50w Palomar on it, and a horizontal dipole. Both guys gave me excellent signal reports!

Do you happen to know which adjustment you use to align the tx and rx to track the same? My rx is a bit lower than my TX, so when im on 27.420 LSB for TX, my RX is around 27.419. I have the open clarifier but it is routed to the external dial. I can just understand stations, but they are definitely not quite on frequency when my TX is dead on frequency by my counter.

 

[midnight special]

You are right, I had forgotten how good these old Trams are on SSB, they are so much nicer than I remembered! I got England and Australia yesterday with a little 50w Palomar on it, and a horizontal dipole. Both guys gave me excellent signal reports!

Do you happen to know which adjustment you use to align the tx and rx to track the same? My rx is a bit lower than my TX, so when im on 27.420 LSB for TX, my RX is around 27.419. I have the open clarifier but it is routed to the external dial. I can just understand stations, but they are definitely not quite on frequency when my TX is dead on frequency by my counter.

sorry i dont know