Re: [Elecraft] Things to do while waiting on your Elecraft kit

2011-07-11 Thread Tony Estep
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: > ...I've come to the conclusion that virtually every significant concept we > use > in our radios today was known by the late 1920's.. > > I'm no historian of radio, but I do remember the stuff we used in the 50's. Consider this: take an H

Re: [Elecraft] Things to do while waiting on your Elecraft kit

2011-07-11 Thread Bob
And the P3 is just a minor update to the Hallicrafter SP44 from the mid 40's, Here: http://www.ohio.edu/people/postr/bapix/SP44.htm Same old + / - 100kc bandwidth. 73, Bob K2TK ex KN2TKR (1956) & K2TKR > -Original Message- > > On 7/11/2011 1:57 PM, Anthony Simons wrote: > Is there t

Re: [Elecraft] Things to do while waiting on your Elecraft kit

2011-07-11 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
Having been reading and tinkering with things "radio" since the late 1940's, I've come to the conclusion that virtually every significant concept we use in our radios today was known by the late 1920's. Much of that work was driven by the "space race" of the 1900 to 1930 era - the rush to have reli

Re: [Elecraft] Things to do while waiting on your Elecraft kit

2011-07-11 Thread Fred Jensen
On 7/11/2011 11:13 AM, John Ragle wrote: > I wonder how many of these beasties Hallicrafters sold? I saw one in the > flesh during my many visits to the Station KFAR Transmitter Site on > Farmers' Loop Road near Fairbanks, AK when I was a sub-teen. I too have seen one, a beautiful example of pre-w

Re: [Elecraft] Things to do while waiting on your Elecraft kit

2011-07-11 Thread John Ragle
I wonder how many of these beasties Hallicrafters sold? I saw one in the flesh during my many visits to the Station KFAR Transmitter Site on Farmers' Loop Road near Fairbanks, AK when I was a sub-teen. KFAR went on the air around 1940, and probably used the dual-diversity receiver to get inform

[Elecraft] Things to do while waiting on your Elecraft kit

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony Simons
While waiting on your Elecraft kit you might want to read up on a dual diversity receiver. Radio Shack had the Hallicrafter Skyrider with dual diversity receiver that had Infinite Adjacent Channel Rejection on page two of their 1939 catalog! Is there truly anything new in electronics? See it here.