Other than Field Day, my first true portable operation was one summer
around 1970 when I spent summer vacation working as a waiter in a Swiss
hotel. I got a callsign (HB9XVK if I remember right) and took along an
all-homebrew CW station. The receiver was a transistorized direct
conversion type and the transmitter was an "AC-DC" type: it ran
directly off 120VAC with no transformer. The tube filaments were wired
in series (I think the lineup was two 50C5s and a 12AU7 or something
like that) and the high voltage was rectified directly from the AC line.
Of course I had to use an autotransformer to make it work with
European 240VAC.
Then the hotel put me in a basement room where the window looked out
onto a patio, so I wasn't able to put up a decent antenna. I think I
only made two or three contacts.
Alan N1AL
On 10/04/2016 09:36 AM, Wayne Burdick [email protected] [KX3] wrote:
My first attempt to operate from a campsite was in 1972, when I was
14.
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