At 04:54 PM 7/9/2007 -0400, donovanf@starpower.net wrote:
All this talk about Gotham antennas and such has me thinking back to those
days of yore..... when we were teenagers and would try anything to make
some contacts! I started out at 11 years old and my first rig was an old
Globe Chief 90 kit that I assembled. My receiver was an even older Zenith
TransOceanic with no BFO so I used a 6 transistor 9 volt radio to create a
beat note on the frequency where I was listening. My antenna was a folded
dipole up about 18 feet in the air. I used two DPDT switches to switch it
from a 40 meter dipole to a 15 meter dipole and it worked pretty good. I
soon upgraded to a Hallicrafters S-38A receiver, which opened up a whole
new world for me. I never did operate 80 meters back then, nor did I ever
own a Gotham antenna, but Leo Myerson's World Radio Labs was just across
the bridge from my house and we frequented it every Saturday morning!
It's sure great to here other people's early experiences in ham radio!
Yes, those WERE the days!
Chuck KØTVD
>Those were the days!
>73! Frank W3LPL
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