I venture a guess that my novice receiver was worse: the Heathkit AR-3.
Dave - WØLEV
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 8:55 PM Bill Mader <billamader@gmail.com> wrote:
> ARRL has always been behind the power curve. Remember how long it took
> them to recognize the lowly transistor and to start including it in
> their publications, especially QST and the Handbook? W0LEV
>
> Perhaps not as long as you remember Dave. The June 1953 issue of QST had
> an article on a station that consisted of a two-transistor 10 meter AM
> transmitter and a two-transistor superregenerative receiver.
>
> That was nearly two years before I got my S-38D for Christmas. It had only
> tubes inside, not even rectifier diodes. I didn't go solid state until I
> built the Hallicrafters S-140K in the early 1960's after suffering with the
> S-38D as my Novice RX.
>
> 73, Bill Mader, K8TE
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