On May 6, 10:01*am, Richard Casady
wrote:
On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:01:38 -0700 (PDT),

wrote:
I am a bit younger but the first time I ever did a repair was taking
apart a tube CB radio and bringing the tubes to radio shack where they
had a tester.. *It was a big box about the size of a video game.. You
plugged in the tube and hit the button.. I think I was about 8-10 at
the time.

When I was a kid there was a tube tester at the drug store. Radio
Shack sold to radio amateurs mostly, and it was downtown. Everything
was downtown there were no malls.

Casady

Yep, and Heathkit kits were a spin off. My older brother built a
Heathkit shortwave radio, then a Heathkit guitar amp! Man, we used to
stay up at night and listen to that shortwave radio, and to us kids
stuck in nowhere, NY, it was like listening to another world! Same
with when we'd get AM skip and listen to WWVA in Wheeling, WVa. It
seemed exotic to think we were listening to someone talking that was
that far away!

On Wed, 06 May 2009 09:01:37 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:01:38 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

I am a bit younger but the first time I ever did a repair was taking
apart a tube CB radio and bringing the tubes to radio shack where they
had a tester.. It was a big box about the size of a video game.. You
plugged in the tube and hit the button.. I think I was about 8-10 at
the time.

When I was a kid there was a tube tester at the drug store. Radio
Shack sold to radio amateurs mostly, and it was downtown. Everything
was downtown there were no malls.

Yeah, all the drugstores had tube testers. First I heard of Radio
Shack was when Tandy bought it. I thought why the hell are the guys
who sell leather and carving tools messing around with radios.
Used to read the Tandy catalog, but never got into the leather stuff.
Preferred the Johnson Smith Novelties catalog though.
What kid doesn't want a Whoopee cushion and one of those handshake
buzzers. Plastic pile of dog poop on the couch for the girls was a
good one too.

--Vic

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On Wed, 6 May 2009 07:18:29 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On May 6, 10:01 am, Richard Casady
wrote:
On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:01:38 -0700 (PDT),

wrote:
I am a bit younger but the first time I ever did a repair was taking
apart a tube CB radio and bringing the tubes to radio shack where they
had a tester.. It was a big box about the size of a video game.. You
plugged in the tube and hit the button.. I think I was about 8-10 at
the time.

When I was a kid there was a tube tester at the drug store. Radio
Shack sold to radio amateurs mostly, and it was downtown. Everything
was downtown there were no malls.

Casady

Yep, and Heathkit kits were a spin off. My older brother built a
Heathkit shortwave radio, then a Heathkit guitar amp! Man, we used to
stay up at night and listen to that shortwave radio, and to us kids
stuck in nowhere, NY, it was like listening to another world! Same
with when we'd get AM skip and listen to WWVA in Wheeling, WVa. It
seemed exotic to think we were listening to someone talking that was
that far away!

There were 3 or 4 of those 50KW clear channel stations we could work
in DC. I liked WLS out of Chicago (Dick Biondi)
WOWO from New York worked too.



WBZ in Boston was one of the original 50kw clear channel stations. I could
occasionally pick it up at night in Jupiter, FL a few years ago.

Dick Summer's Night Light Show (with Irving, the Venus Fly-Trap) caused
many sleepless nights back in the 60's.

http://www.wvnh.net/summer/dicksummer.htm

Eisboch

On May 6, 11:39*am, wrote:
On Wed, 6 May 2009 07:18:29 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On May 6, 10:01*am, Richard Casady
wrote:
On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:01:38 -0700 (PDT),

wrote:
I am a bit younger but the first time I ever did a repair was taking
apart a tube CB radio and bringing the tubes to radio shack where they
had a tester.. *It was a big box about the size of a video game.. You
plugged in the tube and hit the button.. I think I was about 8-10 at
the time.

When I was a kid there was a tube tester at the drug store. Radio
Shack sold to radio amateurs mostly, and it was downtown. Everything
was downtown there were no malls.

Casady

Yep, and Heathkit kits were a spin off. My older brother built a
Heathkit shortwave radio, then a Heathkit guitar amp! Man, we used to
stay up at night and listen to that shortwave radio, and to us kids
stuck in nowhere, NY, it was like listening to another world! Same
with when we'd get AM skip and listen to WWVA in Wheeling, WVa. It
seemed exotic to think we were listening to someone talking that was
that far away!

There were 3 or 4 of those 50KW clear channel stations we could work
in DC. I liked WLS out of Chicago (Dick Biondi)
WOWO from New York worked too.- Hide quoted text -

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The valley we lived in in western NY had some limitations! We couldn't
get hardly any television up there!

On May 6, 11:47*am, "Eisboch" wrote:
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On Wed, 6 May 2009 07:18:29 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On May 6, 10:01 am, Richard Casady
wrote:
On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:01:38 -0700 (PDT),

wrote:
I am a bit younger but the first time I ever did a repair was taking
apart a tube CB radio and bringing the tubes to radio shack where they
had a tester.. It was a big box about the size of a video game.. You
plugged in the tube and hit the button.. I think I was about 8-10 at
the time.

When I was a kid there was a tube tester at the drug store. Radio
Shack sold to radio amateurs mostly, and it was downtown. Everything
was downtown there were no malls.

Casady

Yep, and Heathkit kits were a spin off. My older brother built a
Heathkit shortwave radio, then a Heathkit guitar amp! Man, we used to
stay up at night and listen to that shortwave radio, and to us kids
stuck in nowhere, NY, it was like listening to another world! Same
with when we'd get AM skip and listen to WWVA in Wheeling, WVa. It
seemed exotic to think we were listening to someone talking that was
that far away!

There were 3 or 4 of those 50KW clear channel stations we could work
in DC. I liked WLS out of Chicago (Dick Biondi)
WOWO from New York worked too.

WBZ in Boston was one of the original 50kw clear channel stations. *I could
occasionally pick it up at night in Jupiter, FL a few years ago.

Dick Summer's Night Light Show (with Irving, the Venus Fly-Trap) *caused
many sleepless nights back in the 60's.

http://www.wvnh.net/summer/dicksummer.htm

Eisboch- Hide quoted text -

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Hunting for skip channels is a fun passtime! I still do it!

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On Wed, 6 May 2009 10:26:25 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Yep, and Heathkit kits were a spin off. My older brother built a
Heathkit shortwave radio, then a Heathkit guitar amp! Man, we used to
stay up at night and listen to that shortwave radio, and to us kids
stuck in nowhere, NY, it was like listening to another world! Same
with when we'd get AM skip and listen to WWVA in Wheeling, WVa. It
seemed exotic to think we were listening to someone talking that was
that far away!
There were 3 or 4 of those 50KW clear channel stations we could work
in DC. I liked WLS out of Chicago (Dick Biondi)
WOWO from New York worked too.
WBZ in Boston was one of the original 50kw clear channel stations. I could
occasionally pick it up at night in Jupiter, FL a few years ago.

Dick Summer's Night Light Show (with Irving, the Venus Fly-Trap) caused
many sleepless nights back in the 60's.

http://www.wvnh.net/summer/dicksummer.htm

Eisboch- Hide quoted text -

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Hunting for skip channels is a fun passtime! I still do it!


If you are serious about DXing AM band you really need a long wire
antenna and that becomes a lightning rod here.



I listened to XERF, the Mexican border blaster, for Wolfman Jack. I
vaguely remember one of the staff announcers claiming it had a lot more
than 50kw of broadcast power.

It was the only station we listened to at the near-weekly sandbar
parties on the "mighty" Kaw River.

"HK" wrote in message
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I listened to XERF, the Mexican border blaster, for Wolfman Jack. I
vaguely remember one of the staff announcers claiming it had a lot more
than 50kw of broadcast power.

It was the only station we listened to at the near-weekly sandbar parties
on the "mighty" Kaw River.


It's still listed as being 250,000 watts. Max allowed in the USA is 50k
watts.
But, depending on the frequency used, 50K may carry much further than a
million watts, especially on "clear" channel frequencies where there are no
other stations anywhere legally transmitting on the same freq.

Eisboch

On May 6, 2:44*pm, wrote:
On Wed, 6 May 2009 10:26:25 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
Yep, and Heathkit kits were a spin off. My older brother built a
Heathkit shortwave radio, then a Heathkit guitar amp! Man, we used to
stay up at night and listen to that shortwave radio, and to us kids
stuck in nowhere, NY, it was like listening to another world! Same
with when we'd get AM skip and listen to WWVA in Wheeling, WVa. It
seemed exotic to think we were listening to someone talking that was
that far away!

There were 3 or 4 of those 50KW clear channel stations we could work
in DC. I liked WLS out of Chicago (Dick Biondi)
WOWO from New York worked too.

WBZ in Boston was one of the original 50kw clear channel stations. *I could
occasionally pick it up at night in Jupiter, FL a few years ago.

Dick Summer's Night Light Show (with Irving, the Venus Fly-Trap) *caused
many sleepless nights back in the 60's.

http://www.wvnh.net/summer/dicksummer.htm

Eisboch- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Hunting for skip channels is a fun passtime! I still do it!

If you are serious about DXing AM band you really need a long wire
antenna and that becomes a lightning rod here.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

My brother lives on top of a mountain in western NY, and he made a
ground plane antenna that did really well.

On Wed, 6 May 2009 05:29:02 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On May 6, 7:47*am, Richard Casady wrote:
On Tue, 05 May 2009 12:26:01 -0700, jps wrote:
I replaced a cmos chip on my Raytheon scanner 5 years ago and I didn't
know a damned thing about it before cracking it open to diagnose. *Was
able to search the net for clues, talked to a raytheon tech over the
phone and isolated the problem. *Soldering iron, solder suck, solder
and a $2 cmos chip and the thing worked like new. *Damned gratifying.

Replacing the board would've been $600.

My HP 45 calculator developed a bad display. I removed the 00 size
phillips screws, opened it up. and relaced the LEDs with a Radio Shack
part. Now they are made in Indonesia and glued together [HP48].

Casady

My 48G is made in Singapore. But, it's like my right hand, I have to
have it! I like having four stacks visible for one thing. And it
graphs. I've had it about 14 years or so, and it pains me to have to
use a calculator that doesn't use Reverse Polish Notation.

I am unable to do anything complicated with a non RPN calculator. I
mean I can barely get one to add and subtract. I have two HP 48s. one
on the desk, one in the coat pocket. I wouldn't know a graph from a
bale of hay, I bought it for the big screen. Like watching TV. Ever
notice that the keys in the lower right corner, the numbers and the
arithmetic keys, are larger than the rest?

Casady

On 6-May-2009, wrote:

.50 caliber?

Levi Johnston better practice his cross-country running.

Or maybe the Alaskan bimbo will be satisfied shooting wolves from
helicopters.

Herr Krause. I believe your jealous of the governor because she's more
of a man than you'll ever be.

Has more balls than the three buttlickers on her ticket and the bedwetter
party.