Tom - W0EAJ
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Aside from the Ford spark-coil, hooked up to a long wire, and using the SW
band of a Phico "Fiver" to make that first one (got in REAL trouble with
everybody except the FCC), I'm right there with Eddy. My first rig was a
really ugly 5Y3 with a 6AG7 "final" sitting atop an honest-to-goodness bread
pan, and a Heathkit AR-3. The beauty of such broad-banded radios AND
crystal control, was that you couldn't help but learn how to HUNT for the
guy calling you - while he was HUNTING for YOU. Later came a Heath AT-1 &
an old NC-100 - first "real" rig was a Central Electronics 20A, with the
converted ARC-5 VFO, a 600L linear (they should have called it the 600
LB )and a 1941 Super Pro, the combination of which, nearly filled the
kitchen of my apartment - who cooked, then? Me, I wanted a basement full of
RACKS - all HB, and all wrinkle-black, with meters and tons of knobs,
looking like a WW-II battleship. 1971 brought the SWAN 500C, and a world of
really HOT DX.
