Ah yes. I remember one house my folks rented that had the wooden crank phone on the wall. You just rang-up the operator for all calls. Mostly, we had the plain black phone with no dial. Then one with a dial (also black). Now you just tell your cell to "call home".
My first rig was a three tube knight-kit "ocean-hopper" with plug-in coils for different bands. First xmtr was a DX-35, and antenna a 40m twinlead folded-dipole. I recently found a old ocean hopper with most of the coils and a heath "two'er". Don't use them but kept for memories. We could not even dream of a radio like the K3. 73, Ed - KL7UW ------------------------------ Message: 38 Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 19:49:31 -0700 From: "Ron D'Eau Claire" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: NOT an analog radio. To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <001601cb6825$c41c9fc0$4c55df...@biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Ah, but there was something magic about those years that modern times have lost. We were on the "frontier" of communications back then, when many people never even thought of making a phone call more than a dozen miles away (it took an operator to make calls farther and often we had to wait for her to call back once the circuit was completed). The idea of a kid building something that could communicate with another state, much less another country, was astounding to most people (including me!) Ron AC7AC 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 144-QRT*, 432-100w, 1296-QRT*, 3400-winter? DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] ====================================== *temp ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
