[Amps] Panasonic tube radio

[Jim Isbell]

In the late 50s when I started, almost everything was home brew or 
modified Surplus.  If you had commercial gear it was because you were 
either wealthy or had a wealthy ham friend who was upgrading and liked 
you a lot.  My first commercial gear was an NE-6 (12 watts on 6 meters) 
transmitter that a good friend gave me because he felt sorry for me with 
a ticket and no gear.  I then homebrewed (from scratch) a converter for 
the car radio to put 50.0 to 51.0 on the car broadcast band.

Bill Turner wrote:

>On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 10:26:48 +0200, peter.chadwick at Zarlink.Com wrote:
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>>I find the older ones (1946 to about 1965)even more interesting. As a 
>>percentage, did many more people build their rigs rather than buy? Kits 
>>were perhaps more available, which skews the numbers a bit, I suppose.
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>When I got into ham radio in the late '50s it was more common for
>transmitters to be homebrewed than bought, especially if you include
>kits as "homebrewed".  Thinking back on all my friends from those
>days, not one had a commercially made transmitter.
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>Receivers were a different matter.  Nearly all were commercial or
>modified war surplus, which there was a ton of back then.
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>Ahhhhh... the good ol' days.  :-) 
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>73, Bill W6WRT
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