Yep. The "broad as a barn door" reciever thing was a great feature in those days since we were crystal controlled transmit and had no idea where on the Novice band the reply to our CQ would come from.
W0FM -----Original Message----- From: Alan Bloom [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 11:43 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Elecraft Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Super K3 On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 11:19 -0600, Radio Amateur N5GE wrote: ... > Those of you who weren't hams when you had to do the Novice thing > haven't experienced a fully utilized Novice portion of a band. If you > didn't have a CW filter it was hard to make a contact that lasted very > long. I dunno, I used to make lots of contacts with my trusty Knight Kit Star Roamer. That thing was a real joke of a receiver. The entire novice band was about 1/8 inch wide on the dial. You had to tune reeeeeely carefully. The selectivity was broad as a barn door, which was actually a good thing because the receiver never came back to the same frequency after a transmission so you had to tune around to find the station you were working. "And I had to walk two miles in the snow to school every morning..." Al N1AL ______________________________________________________________ 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
