Ira, and the group.
the trouble was, I wasn’t making that up.
The transmitter was all home-brew and was a huge affair that chirped, clicked
and hummed. I kept trying to fix it with each OO card I’d get in the mail.
If I remember, the most ‘cards’ in the mail for ten or so from OO’s.
Mike WB8VGE
Mike Bryce, WB8VGE
the heathkit shop
SunLight energy systems
J e e p
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> On Aug 17, 2016, at 1:34 PM, Ira Franklin via TenTec <tentec@contesting.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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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