For the unknowing there were Bi-Lateral SSB Transceivers predating the Bitx20 by some 50 years. Meet the Cosmophone 35.
It was expensive and only produced 35 watts PEP. It did not live long partly because of the low power. The timing of the pilot run of the Cosmophone slightly edged out the KWM-1. The Cosmophone grew from a homebrew rig designed by Butch Mason, a former Navy guy and California ham, known as the Portsider.
Moving back to the N6QW Newbury Park Lab, now the Big Task... wiring all the stages together and building the 12GE5 RF Amp stage. I am delighted how the front panel turned out.
Lots of work yesterday with a good deal of time taken to locate and mill out space for the "Rocker Style" power switch. I have the program in the computer so I can do future switch installs pretty easy. How cool is that?
Job creation numbers were amended and what looked bad is now significantly worse. Tariffs sure work swell!
Semper Fi, I see where former Marine Colonel Oliver North, finally after 40 years married Fawn Hall, the secretary who shredded the Iran Contra paper trail. Once a Marine always a Marine!
Them that know can make things go!
73's
Pete N6QW