On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 10:45 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
Beautiful obit for the KX1 Stan. Ops like you will remember it like us O.T.s remember our 6L6 crystal controlled oscillators built on a breadboard. Newer rigs do as well (sometimes better) but are never the same.
Whoa there, Ron! Next week is my 68th birthday. I ain't no kid! My FIRST rig was a crystal controlled 50L6 fed doubled DC by a 50Y6 using one half of the line cord and a cold water ground. It was called "The 22 Watt Monster" and it came out of a 1963 CQ Magazine. Clearly, pre OSHA...
THAT is THE rig that earned me a QSL card from WA1BVN (clearly a SK by now) up near Boston who wrote on it, "Solid 579, Stan, you must have had your foot in a water bucket."
Oh, lest I forget - the antenna was my bedspring. Remember when bed springs were real metal springs? I lived in an apartment and couldn't have an antenna. I'd heard about "loading a bed spring and, as a kid, I totally fell for it. Thank God for Pi Networks. I ran that bed spring for several weeks until I discovered magnet wire.
Now THAT"S A MEMORY, Ron, right up there with my little KX1 and your 6L6 MOPA
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