[TenTec] Just an observation, Field Day in Hawaii

[Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP]

Yes, we owe a lot to Bell labs.
In 1958 I built my first crystal set, and in 1959 I added a single
transistor audio amp to it.
A few days later a 59+ 200dB signal blew the headphones off my head.
It was a ham who lived about 100' away from me.  He was working AM of
course.
I had never heard of ham radio before.
I removed the antenna, disabled the amp and copied him on the crystal set.
Eventually he said his address, so I looked him up and got bitten myself...

I remember the guy's name but not his call sign.
He held my hand as I built my Heathkit AR3 receiver.
Then I "borrowed" a cake pan from my mom's kitchen and built a 1-tube CW
transmitter inside of it.
I taught myself Morse code and was soon pounding brass.

73
Rick, DJ0IP


-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of donhall161
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 9:14 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Just an observation, Field Day in Hawaii

Rick,

Even dating myself more, I worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1953 to
1956(with a time-out for the Signal Corps). Had the fun of designing a
circuit using a point-contact transistor then managing to blow up the first
junction one in our lab by putting a lantern battery power supply across the
base-emitter diode in the wrong direction.

Lots of water under the bridge, but still enjoy CW and wanted to encourage
James to take a deep breath and jump into the pool.

73  Don  K5AQ 

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