[BC] Why an older transmitter may be a good choice

[Gary Blau]

It would probably make more sense to keep some old tuning components on 
hand to fashion a T net to load that SS rig into your emergency antenna, 
assuming the rig doesn't have one already built in.
Donate the tube rig to a loving Ham.

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Rob Atkinson wrote:
> I agree that a s.s. tx makes sense monitarily, but something happened 
> recently that made me think keeping an old tube rig as an aux is not a 
> bad idea.  I can't recall what it was for sure but it may have been the 
> WFIN tower accident.  I guess if you have an antenna emergency and you 
> have to temporarily work into a less than satisfactory load, a tube rig 
> might be happier with that.