[TenTec] OT - Entry Level for boys

Thu Aug 18 04:03:58 EDT 2016

Yikes Rick! I'd love to see that bike!
I didn't tell the whole story on that Zenith RX.
 I used a second rcvr's local oscillator as a BFO, I guess similar to what you did.

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I'll try:

My 80m bicycle mobile CW novice station consisted of:
> a home-brew 6L6 transmitter using a 90v battery and 6v battery for filaments
> a transistorized receiver about 6 inches by 4 inches, AM only, but with a second AM-only transistor radio strapped to the back of it.  On the AM-only RX I then detuned the 455 kHz coils until it produced the right beat into the shortwave RX such that I could copy CW.

In our Section Emergency Test, I activated one remote town in our county using this setup.
Unfortunately buying new 90v batteries was just too expensive for me so after a few weeks I gave up.

73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt, Germany)

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Can anyone top this?
My novice RX was the guts out of a Zenith floor model SWL receiver. It was the one with the green tuning eye. No BFO of course.
It's a wonder I made any contacts at all.

Joe, K8MP
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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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Can’t help but to jump into this one!

Homebrew transmitter and HQ-110

I was short by two states for  WAS from Official Observer reports!

Mike WB8VGE

> On Aug 17, 2016, at 11:06 AM, Reed Krenn <<a href="<a href="mailto:reed.krenn at gmail.com">reed.krenn at gmail.com</a?">mailto:reed.krenn at gmail.com">reed.krenn at gmail.com</a</a>>> wrote:
> 
> Used Hammarlund HQ-110, Johnson Viking Challenger were my 'entry level'
> rigs.
> 
> Reed / WW3A
> 
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 1:53 AM, <a href="<a href="mailto:rick at dj0ip.de">rick at dj0ip.de</a?">mailto:rick at dj0ip.de">rick at dj0ip.de</a</a>> <<a href="<a href="mailto:Rick at dj0ip.de">Rick at dj0ip.de</a?">mailto:Rick at dj0ip.de">Rick at dj0ip.de</a</a>>> wrote:
> 
>> Bob, either you are a lot younger than I or you are wrong.
>> That was already mid-range.
>> 
>> When I was a boy, entry level was a Heathkit AR-3 or Hallicrafters 
>> S-38 receiver and a DX-20 or DX-35.
>> 
>> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
>> (Nr. Frankfurt, Germany)
>> 
>> 

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