http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrYRY6kx550&NR=1

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:40:03 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrYRY6kx550&NR=1

Did you catch that circa 1958 EF Johnson ham rig in the background?

Hard to believe that I once aspired to own one of those, but a pretty
decent rig for its day.

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:16:09 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:40:03 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrYRY6kx550&NR=1

Did you catch that circa 1958 EF Johnson ham rig in the background?

Hard to believe that I once aspired to own one of those, but a pretty
decent rig for its day.

Yes I did as a matter of fact. One of my Dad's friends had one.

Ever own a Galaxy transciever or one of the NCRs?

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:38:03 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Ever own a Galaxy transciever or one of the NCRs?

No but I did have a Hallicrafters SX-42 which was kind of an amazing
beast. My father bought it 1947 after ww2.

http://www2.flickr.com/photos/radiorover/354308246/

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:52:49 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:38:03 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Ever own a Galaxy transciever or one of the NCRs?

No but I did have a Hallicrafters SX-42 which was kind of an amazing
beast. My father bought it 1947 after ww2.

http://www2.flickr.com/photos/radiorover/354308246/

All my Dad's stuff was homebrew up until...

http://www.collinsradio.org/html/kwm-2.html

This was my first kit...

http://www.heathkit-museum.com/ham/hvmgr-91.shtml

Up until I joined the service, I used the KWM-2 and my Dad's Collins
S-line - 32S-3, 75S-1, 62S-1 transverter, 312B-4/5 station consoles,
30L-1 linear plus the entire line of Heathkit Lunch Boxes. I still
have the S-line gear.

Post service, Swan 500C which was 'da bomb for the time. I also added
a Drake TR-4CW along the way.

After that, Kenwood Twins, Kenwood transcievers and eventually
settling on Yaesu.

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:59:49 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:52:49 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:38:03 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Ever own a Galaxy transciever or one of the NCRs?

No but I did have a Hallicrafters SX-42 which was kind of an amazing
beast. My father bought it 1947 after ww2.

http://www2.flickr.com/photos/radiorover/354308246/

All my Dad's stuff was homebrew up until...

http://www.collinsradio.org/html/kwm-2.html

This was my first kit...

http://www.heathkit-museum.com/ham/hvmgr-91.shtml

Up until I joined the service, I used the KWM-2 and my Dad's Collins
S-line - 32S-3, 75S-1, 62S-1 transverter, 312B-4/5 station consoles,
30L-1 linear plus the entire line of Heathkit Lunch Boxes. I still
have the S-line gear.

Post service, Swan 500C which was 'da bomb for the time. I also added
a Drake TR-4CW along the way.

After that, Kenwood Twins, Kenwood transcievers and eventually
settling on Yaesu.

Collins gear was always some of the finest available but way out of my
price range as a kid. My first transmitter was a Heatkkit DX-40 which
I built when I was 12 years old.

http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/4093

I graduated to a nice pair of Drake TR4 twins in the early 70s which I
still have stashed away in boxes somwhere.

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:31:37 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:59:49 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:52:49 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:38:03 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Ever own a Galaxy transciever or one of the NCRs?

No but I did have a Hallicrafters SX-42 which was kind of an amazing
beast. My father bought it 1947 after ww2.

http://www2.flickr.com/photos/radiorover/354308246/

All my Dad's stuff was homebrew up until...

http://www.collinsradio.org/html/kwm-2.html

This was my first kit...

http://www.heathkit-museum.com/ham/hvmgr-91.shtml

Up until I joined the service, I used the KWM-2 and my Dad's Collins
S-line - 32S-3, 75S-1, 62S-1 transverter, 312B-4/5 station consoles,
30L-1 linear plus the entire line of Heathkit Lunch Boxes. I still
have the S-line gear.

Post service, Swan 500C which was 'da bomb for the time. I also added
a Drake TR-4CW along the way.

After that, Kenwood Twins, Kenwood transcievers and eventually
settling on Yaesu.

Collins gear was always some of the finest available but way out of my
price range as a kid. My first transmitter was a Heatkkit DX-40 which
I built when I was 12 years old.

http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/4093

Yeah - the radio club when I was in high school built two Heathkit
transmitters, but I can't remember which ones.

I built a 6 and 10 meter pair of lunch boxes which, as you may know,
required 260Vdc (or was it ac - can't remember) and Heathkit designed
a vibrator kit for 12 volt input. Damn vibrator power supply for a,
in theory portable, radio was heavy and bigger than the radio it was
supposed to power. :)

Man, those were the days.

I graduated to a nice pair of Drake TR4 twins in the early 70s which I
still have stashed away in boxes somwhere.

Those were nice radios. Up until a couple of years ago, I had an R7.
I sold it to a guy who lost his in a house fire.

Got a pretty sum for it too.

I still fire up the S-line from time to time - I changed and balanced
the finals three or four years ago with Russian tubes - damn thing
still runs like it was new. The KWM-2 needs some help - there's a guy
over in Pomfret who rebuilds Collins gear - I will probably give it to
him and let him restore it.

Main radio here is an FT-1000D with all the goodies and an FT-900
w/external DSP as a standby radio. I don't do any UHF/VHF anymore
(not like I did anyway) so I only have ICOM handhelds with some
homebrew bricks for extra power when I need it.

The TH-11 is still in the air - that's probably the most amazing part
of the station. :)