ham radio

From: Paul Braun <nerdware_at_laidbak.com>
Date: Tue Feb 15 23:22:26 2000

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My first station (ca. 1978) consisted of a Heath DX-100B and a
Knight R-190A, feeding into a homebrew T/R relay and out to an
inverted vee hanging off the TV tower. I used a 100W light bulb in a
ceramic socket as my dummy load, and I used a WB4VVF Accu-
Keyer (still have it...) My paddle was homebrew as well. I used a
pair of Radio Shack straight keys, screwed back-to-back and
mounted vertically on an angle bracket with two pieces of phenolic
circuit board replacing the knobs.

Worked well. Even worked some DX, which was an incredible thrill
for a Novice in high school.....(also learned that my transmitter was
not exactly right on the money, dial-wise. I got a nice little QSL
report from the fine folks in Grand Island, Nebraska, when I
apparently ventured 5KHz outside the 40m Novice band.....)

Bought a 520s after that, still have it. It's still got tubes in the
final.....they'll take a lot more punishment than transistors...

73,

Paul

> I do remember Dick Bash, KL7??? who started the whole licencing uproar. I
> think he finally got his tech licence pulled for some silly reason.
>
> Yes, I love them boat anchors too. Hollow state technology with the warm
> glow of filaments is so nostalgic.
>
> I personally will have a boat anchor station set up. Drake 2B and a
> Central Electronics 100V transmitter tied into a Johnson Desk Kilowatt. I
> heven have the Ranger exciter to run it as a KW plate modulated if
> necessary (now illegal). Yes, I do have rice boxes as well, but there is
> no challenge to those. But they are nice mobile.
>
> I challenge all of you out there to get a ham licence, no code or even the
> 5 wpm. The 5 wpm is no barrier -- anyone can learn that in a few weeks a
> couple nights a week. C U on the bands . . .
>
> Gary Hildebrand
> WA7KKP .__ ._ __... _._ _._ .__. ._.
>
> collector of old General Electric Progress Line radios
> and anything else that glows in the dark
>





Paul Braun
NerdWare -- The History of the PC and the Nerds who brought it to you.
nerdware_at_laidbak.com
www.laidbak.com/nerdware
Received on Tue Feb 15 2000 - 23:22:26 GMT