On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:49:03 GMT, JohnH wrote:

On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:59:06 GMT, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:04:10 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


"D.Duck" wrote in message
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"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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Hmmmm....used to have one of those.

Bit of nostalgia...

My first, circa 1955

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~postr/bapix/S20R.html

Here's the one I used to play with:

http://www.geocities.com/technician4/ronw1.jpg

Got to play with the exciter of one once when I worked some MARS phone
patches back in the day. I couldn't talk the Chief into letting me
fire up the finals on the big guns though. :)

I did get to play with an Air Force station at full power once though
- blasted a signal right below the lower end of the 20 meter ham band
on a phone patch to the East Coast - MARS again.

That was cool. :)

Man, we could get away with some stuff back then on MARS.

Thank you for your MARS work also.

Hey - it was fun for us too you know.

Got to play with some great military gear when it was available and
where there wasn't military gear, the club stations were top notch.

Besides, back in those days, it was part of the deal - the reason for
the Amateur Radio Service's existence. And who woulnd't want to help
our fellow soldiers, sailors and airmen if you could.

It was a blast - like life in a way - sometimes tragic, sometimes
joyful, but always important.