I’d wager most of us on here have built a Heathkit Receiver at some point in their younger years.
AZBob Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 23, 2022, at 11:12 AM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > AM and SW can travel farther (sometimes much farther) than FM especially at > night. > > I had a little crystal radio kit at some point when I was a kid and at night > would sometimes pick up AM "blowtorch" stations hundreds of miles away. > > >> On Fri, Dec 23, 2022, at 13:05, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: >> Yeah, that was another place I used. Forgot about them. >> >> I was always amazed at the sensitivity of the tuners these things had. >> I had an outdoor copper wire dipole that ran into my room that I used >> for my HeathKit SW receiver and when I hooked that up to it I could >> pull in an amazing number of stations. I would sit there for hours and >> just log the different stations/locations I could get at night (CQ CQ!) >> >> -D >> >>>> On Dec 23, 2022, at 12:59 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>> I remember back in the day when the Radio Shack at the mall had a vacuum >>> tube tester. >>> >>> I forget, am I the youngest on the list? Gotta be close... >>> >>> -Curt >>> >>> >>>> On Friday, December 23, 2022 at 12:50:04 PM EST, dan penoff.com via >>>> Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Yup, seen lots like that or similar over the years. >>> >>> These often ended up at my house when I was a kid because I was the one in >>> the family who could “fix stuff”. I was very adept at replacing blown >>> capacitors and testing tubes at the local drugstore… >>> >>> I had a smaller Zenith cabinet style stereo form my great aunt’s estate >>> that was in my bedroom for all of my teen years. I remember it well, as >>> while it wasn’t stereo, it had a much warmer sound that all of that >>> transistor-based stuff did. Still have the “Tibet Almond Stick” that came >>> with it for touching up scratches on the cabinet: >>> >>> [cid:E7EBB06C-BC81-48AB-8A23-5DF188450CA3] >>> >>> -D >>> >>>> On Dec 23, 2022, at 11:36 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/677208133799739/?mibextid=6ojiHh >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
