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Vintage Hybrid Transceivers (http://www.eham.net/articles/36648). Author:  James Benedict (N8FVJ) Please click title or article link to read the complete report. Comment: This article by James Benedict (N8FVJ) is one of the more interesting reviews of vintage hybrid transceivers online.  A hybrid design uses a solid state receiver and a tube type transmitter, usually with 6146 finals. Benedict concentrates on early rigs produced by Yaesu and Kenwood, two companies that drove many U.S. manuafacturers out of business during the 1970s through the 1990s. Many of us owned some of these rigs early on during our "careers" as radio amateurs.  Many of these rigs are still on the air and continue to receive outstanding reports of audio and transmission quality. According to James, here are the vintage rigs worth saving, repairing, collecting, and using. The Kenwood series of HF transceivers: Kenwood TS-520s Kenwood TS-530s Kenwood TS-820s Kenwood TS-830s The Yaes