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From: Joe Papworth via TenTec <tentec@contesting.com>
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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 03:25:08 -0400
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Yikes Troy, a Craftsman radio, as in Sears? I never knew they sold them. Did it 
come with a lifetime warranty, like a wrench? Hi Hi

<div>Sad Arc story: I was at a Ham's estate sale 
some years ago. The gentleman had several brand spankin' new Arc 5's, in their 
original packaging. Unfortunately, his basement had flooded at some point and 
they were ruined.
Later,
Joe, K8MP


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From: Troy, W6HV <w6hv@verizon.net>
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Sent: Wed, Aug 17, 2016 07:27 PM
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Not trying to top it, but wanted to say your experience about the same as mine. 
Receiver was a modified Craftsman radio and the transmitter was homebrew with a 
link coupled Windom antenna. Assembled this in late 40’s. In the ‘50s when I 
joined MARS and  added ARC equipment.
Troy, W6HV

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From: Joe Papworth via TenTec 
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Can anyone top this?
My novice RX was the guts out of a Zenith floor model SWL receiver. It was the 
one with the green tuning eye. No BFO of course.
It's a wonder I made any contacts at all.

Joe, K8MP
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Hi Mike, that WAS remark gave me a big laugh. Many moons ago, when I got my 
novice ticket I built a Heathkit DX40 and had a BC348 (tank radio I think ) 
That I replaced all the caps in and built a AC power to go on dynamotor 
bracket. I owned the grand sum total of two crystals. One for middle of novice 
band on 80 and other was for 40 meter novice band at very top of band. It was 
actually marked 1/2 kc above band. A ham told me that was no big deal to just 
open case and scratch it up with a lead pencil and frequency would be moved 
down. Ahhh to be young, dumb and believe anything. lol Use to love calling CQ 
and then tune whole band hunting for a answer. That was a great crystal and I 
actually worked WAS on 40 with it. Then boom the sky opened up and started 
raining those lovely White cards. That xtal was exactly on marked freq. Thank 
goodness I passed general test and Dad got me a used B & W 5100 xmitter and 
Collins 75A1 (or 2) cant remember. So no more white bad boy qsl cards. Ira   
K4YMQEM63  AlabamaHam since 1958 and still loving it. 

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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 10:24 AM
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Can’t help but to jump into this one!

Homebrew transmitter and HQ-110

I was short by two states for  WAS from Official Observer reports!


Mike WB8VGE



> On Aug 17, 2016, at 11:06 AM, Reed Krenn <<a href="<a 
> href="mailto:reed.krenn@gmail.com";>reed.krenn@gmail.com</a?">mailto:reed.krenn@gmail.com";>reed.krenn@gmail.com</a</a>>>
>  wrote:
> 
> Used Hammarlund HQ-110, Johnson Viking Challenger were my 'entry level'
> rigs.
> 
> Reed / WW3A
> 
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 1:53 AM, <a href="<a 
> href="mailto:rick@dj0ip.de";>rick@dj0ip.de</a?">mailto:rick@dj0ip.de";>rick@dj0ip.de</a</a>>
>  <<a href="<a 
> href="mailto:Rick@dj0ip.de";>Rick@dj0ip.de</a?">mailto:Rick@dj0ip.de";>Rick@dj0ip.de</a</a>>>
>  wrote:
> 
>> Bob, either you are a lot younger than I or you are wrong.
>> That was already mid-range.
>> 
>> When I was a boy, entry level was a Heathkit AR-3 or Hallicrafters S-38
>> receiver and a DX-20 or DX-35.
>> 
>> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
>> (Nr. Frankfurt, Germany)
>> 
>> 

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