Finally, after searching for 20+ years, I have found my Unicorn. A very very rare Browning Golden Eagle BB-30 Business Band 11 meter radio set from 1970. Except for the Browning Base speakers, Browning tagged D104s and the Browning BB5 (which I don't care about that much) I now have every Tube radio and Base radio accessory that Browning has made (not counting stupid stuff like antenna's). This is basically a high output version of the Browning Golden Eagle Mark II Transmitter. The Receiver for it IS the Mark II receiver with no difference at all. The BB-30 is a 30 watt (Input) transmitter with about 17 watts dead key output from the factory. However, I backed that deadkey down a little on this one (can be easily reversed). The differences I see are much bigger audio tube and power transformer, same size rf final tube, but it is a dual (2 in 1) tube and hence does twice as much as the stock Browning rf final, no swr meter circuitry, and uses diodes and resistors for the speech clipper filter where the other Brownings use a tube and a choke filter. Alas, with the diode clipper, this does not PING. I guess business band people would not have appreciated it anyway! Last, it has much larger air variable tune and load caps for the Pi output which are on the front, in place of where the meter switch and SWR meter adjust pots would be on a Mark II. This is just a quick look on the bench, will put this on-the-air and make a vid of it coming soon.

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