I had a two tube kit, 6aq5 output and a 12ax7 speech amp in screen modulation I suppose, it was really low parts count. Got out good with a 100 foot wire though, blocks!
Used to play the cassette deck of my favorite tunes over it and ride around with a transistor radio. When the girls next door had a radio station blaring, I would zero beat and put opera on... Brett N2DTS > Confession time? > > I had a Laf-a-Lot (Lafayette) 2 tube wireless broadcaster, > hot chassis and all, which I connected to a wire and made it > out to one block away. I had a junky turntable, a really old > Mike, and a couple of toggle switches as my mixer. Only had a > few 45 rpm records back then, so my programming was rather > limited. Everything was fine until I connected the input jack > of the transmitter to the speaker jack of my Knight Kit Star > Roamer, trying to rebroadcast shortwave over medium wave. The > sparks flew as i grounded the chassis of the transmitter, not > having correctly polarized outlets in my parents 100 year old house. > > Next I tried ham radio, that seemed to be the ticket.... > 73 > John > K5PRO > > > > > Coverage, coverage, coverage! What memories you had me remember. > > > Anyone else do the "Cutting Edge" in the AM bands? > > > > > > 73 Robert W4RL > > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net > To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
