That's great! (My Novice day photos from the early 1950's got lost years ago in a move along with the logs, sigh!) Tnx for the photos.
You guys had *great* receivers to work with. My first receiver was a Meissner regen using type 76 triodes in detector and audio amp. That was replaced by a Hallicrafters S-38. It was a basic AA5 five tube receiver with short wave coverage, only a small step up from the regen in that it didn't require two hands to tune it and it served me for my Novice days and for several years afterward. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- I was WN8DVT-WA8DVT in Dayton in about 1960. See picture of my first stations here: http://s748.photobucket.com/albums/xx121/W4TQ/?action=view¤t=StationsL R.jpg The top picture shows my Hallicrafters Sky Champion (was an antique when I got it) and an Ameco AC-1 (AC-1 kit bought mail order from an ad in QST). The next picture, after I got my General, shows on the far right a homebrew single tube 6146 amplifier, and a Heathkit VF1 VFO. On top of the VF1 is a 6AU6 push-pull modulator I built from plans in an old ARRL manual. I used the modulator on the 6146's screen grid. By setting the control grid bias just right, the screen modulation produced a double sideband signal (sort of)--I got good audio reports as such, anyway. I couldn't afford to buy an output transformer to build a plate modulator to run AM. As you can see, my station was in the attic. The antenna was a 40 meter dipole which ran from one end of the attic to the other (just above my head), and then out through a hole to a tree in the front yard. Dan - W4TQ K3 - 3020 ______________________________________________________________ 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
