I got my license it seems like, even before Col. Sanders was even a
Corporal. At the end of my sophomore year in Tucson High School, I
worked all summer, with my cousin, in the crops in the Salem OR.
area. I managed to save up enough money to buy a new NC 173
receiver, which was a new National model then. I'm not sure that was
too good of an idea, as my buddies were buying used HQ 129s and had
money left over to get Millen Exciters, with an 807 final.
My first TX was built from parts of an old broadcast radio, and was
only a bare 6V6 xtal oscillator, literally on a slab of wood(bread
board). I think that I attached a non resonate long wire to the top
of the output coil, for 80 and 40 meters. Tuning was via a light
bulb in series with the antenna lead ! Talk about a QRP signal !
73, Chuck, now W7CS
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