I've yet to encounter anyone who started with the equipment I had. The transmitter was a Sonar SRT120P built from a kit (its final was an AX9903). The VFO was just an LC setup connected to the crystal socket. It drifted and chirped beyond belief and was replaced by Knight VFO. The receiver was built from a Coast Guard Kit. It had 8 tubes as I recall, a crystal filter, and an AC/DC tranformerless power supply. The kit came with a photo and a schematic. There were no step by step instructions. The receiver had no bandspread. I eventually added an RME HF 10-20 converter. I also added a Q-Multiplier. I operated out of my bedroom in an apartment on the forth floor of a walk up apartment in the Bronx. My antenna was a Windom on the roof. That said, I got a lot of fun out of that rig, but gave it away when I left for college in 1956.
Dick KA1SA At 10:59 PM 11/5/2009, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: >That's great! (My Novice day photos from the early 1950's got lost years ago >in a move along with the logs, sigh!) Tnx for the photos. > >You guys had *great* receivers to work with. My first receiver was a >Meissner regen using type 76 triodes in detector and audio amp. That was >replaced by a Hallicrafters S-38. It was a basic AA5 five tube receiver with >short wave coverage, only a small step up from the regen in that it didn't >require two hands to tune it and it served me for my Novice days and for >several years afterward. > >Ron AC7AC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
