[BC] How would you build it?

[robertm]

Yes, the Vanguard. The first version was nicknamed the cigarette machine. It was in a short cabinet shaped like a cigarette machine of the day. The solid state exciter used diode modulation. Later they came out with a full rack model to appease those who had a more traditional concept of how a transmitter should look. The one I had ran quite well into a Unipole. 

http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/Gates/Vanguard.htm


> On Jul 30, 2014, at 10:57 PM, donroden at hiwaay.net wrote:
> 
> Gates did the transistor low level transmitter into a 4CX3000 in the 60s.
> I had one on 740 and it would not hold power settings with utility variances.
> The output power was all over the place, but modern feedback circuits  
> could hold it well.