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Look what I stumbled across...
"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in message ... On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:31:32 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote: "Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in message ... On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:47:14 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote: "Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in message ... http://tinyurl.com/5hkot4 Hmmmm....used to have one of those. Bit of nostalgia... My first, circa 1955 http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~postr/bapix/S20R.html Yeppers - never owned one, but one of my buddies did. This was my very first shortwave radio I built in kit form. http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~postr/bapix/Hal_S119.htm I remember when I built it, the detector diode was blown so my Dad and I went to Radio Shack in Boston and got several. There must have been a difference, because that radio was HOT even on the built in whip antenna. I outgrew that one and managed to save enough money to get the SW-500. http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~postr/bapix/S120.html By that time, I had my ticket and was using it as a standby receiver. I still have it (had it recently restored) - modified to receive SSB. Man, those were the days. Staying up late at night "working" AM stations around the country. In those days, the SWL could write the station, send a signal report with a brief description of the programming and how long you listened and the station's Chief Engineer would return a QSL card verifying that your information was correct and a thanks for listening. My very first one was a station in Des Moines, Iowa - a small, 1kw (night time) country western station. I'd have to go through the QSL card file to remember the call sign. One of my best shortwave ones ever was Thailand - AM no less on a rainy Saturday. Took five weeks, but I got the QSL card. :) My Dad was a ham from the 1930's. Never got active again after the forced shut down during WWII. In the 50's when I was 12 he bought me a kit from Allied Radio. Looked about the same as your Sky Buddy except had plug in coils for various frequency ranges. There were several like that - Lafayette and Allied made a few like it in kit form. It wasn't a Space Spanner by any chance? Seems to me I remember one of the guys in my Scout troop built one of those. That got my Dad started again and I progressed up the ranks from novice, general and amateur extra. I haven't been active for many years. Except of the CW banks it seemed that the rest of the frequency allocations turned into a giant CB party. I blame no-code. :) Ahhh, the good ole days.... Tell me about it. We used to do some really cool stuff just experimenting and what not. One of my most memorable QSOs was with a guy in Chicago I worked off a 100 watt industrial light bulb as a dummy load when I built my first Heathkit transmitter. Milwaukee to Chicago from my basement "shack" at 50 watts off a light bulb. Or the time I shunt loaded a steel rail road bridge on a bet and worked a guy 300 miles away on CW. :) Or the time I obtained a weather balloon and made a 2,500 vertical complete with ground grid for 160 on Field Day. Man, was that antenna loud. Only stayed calm enough for an hour, but I made a ton of Qs during that hour. :) Yep - the good old days. What I played with: http://www.navcom.com/tacan.pdf |
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