[TenTec] OT - Entry Level for boys

[jones winston]

My first rig in 1960, with novice license KN4CWQ, was a Heath AR-3 receiver and home brew 6GA7 - 6125 transmitter, feeding a folded dipole made from TV ribbon line. I got my general a year later and a Globe Scout 680.

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> On Aug 18, 2016, at 7:14 PM, kd3jf.paulgates at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> My first good radio was a Gonset G66B receiver and an Elmac 67 And worked it to death so to speak. Still have a Gonset G66B. 
> Paul kw4bd
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>> On Aug 18, 2016, at 12:28 PM, Richard Bell <richfbell at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Borrowed Heathkit DX40 with three crystals, Hallicrafters S38 
>> 
>> RB W5BXE
>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Mike Bryce <prosolar at sssnet.com>
>>> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
>>> Sent: Wed, Aug 17, 2016 01:04 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT - Entry Level for boys
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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="mailto:reed.krenn at gmail.com">reed.krenn at gmail.com</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="mailto:rick at dj0ip.de">rick at dj0ip.de</a> <<a href="mailto:Rick at dj0ip.de">Rick at dj0ip.de</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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