My novice operations spanned the first summer that I had a license, 1954. I had a 25 watt crystal controlled homebrew transmitter which I couldn't get to work on 40 because it was neutralized with a twisted wire capacitor and a Hallicrafters S40B receiver, which was definitely in the "broad as a barn door" category. I could receive almost the whole 80 meter novice band which was fine in the daytime. I could hear past 20 KHz so I didn't miss much. On the other hand, reception at night was impossible. On the day that I passed the General at the FCC office, I also bought a neutralizing capacitor from Radio Parts at 807 Howard Avenue in New Orleans, which gave the transmitter's 826 triode final stable enough neutralization to work 40. Shortly thereafter, I bought a used HRO-50T which had a five position crystal filter.
Heaven! Dunc, W5DC Terry Schieler wrote: > 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 > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
