[TenTec] Re [Ten Tec}OT - Entry Level for Boys

[Mr Bill Mellema]

Guys...good to hear Cousin Bruce is still on the air..use to listen to him on an old Pilot BC/Shortwave receiver with a 12 inch speaker hi hi
I started out with a Knight Kit Star Roamer and DX20 to a inverted vee...moved up to a BW5100 and SX99...do remember the B&W5100 had low drive on 10 meters...what a bear....I have a picture of that set up on QRZ.COM

I had left for the Navy after graduation June 1967 ..Great Lakes for boot camp...came home after boot camp and had a "pink slip" from the FCC....TVI complaint from a neighbor.....dated at the time  I was away....can't win hi hi
73's
Bill N3WM




      From: Duane Calvin <ac5aa1 at gmail.com>
 To: 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment' <tentec at contesting.com> 
 Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 8:38 PM
 Subject: Re: [TenTec] Re [Ten Tec}OT - Entry Level for Boys
   
Used mine to listen to WABC, 770 kc, Cousin Bruce in NYC playing all the R
'n' R hits of the early 60's.  Cousin Bruce is now on SiriusXM spinning the
oldies on weekday evenings these days for a national audience!

    73, Duane

Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas
ac5aa at ac5aa.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Joe
Papworth via TenTec
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 7:11 PM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Cc: K8mp at aol.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Re [Ten Tec}OT - Entry Level for Boys

 
I built a GR-91 too Duane. Yep, it was  horrible, but I guess you get what
you pay for. HI HI I used mine as an  outboard BFO for the floor model
Zenith. 
Joe, K8MP
 
 
In a message dated 8/19/2016 5:37:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
ac5aa1 at gmail.com writes:

OK, one  more.  When I started out as WN2HDS in 1963, I was using a Heath
GR-91  (terrible RX), and a built-from the Handbook 30W 6DQ6B oscillator.
QSO's  were very few and far between.  Worked all summer mowing lawns  to
purchase and build a Knight-Kit R-100A with Q-Multiplier and  S-Meter.  Now
THAT was a receiver (compared to the Heath)....  It  didn't help that I
ordered a 7175 kc  40m crystal - yep, right  on top of Radio Moscow.  Ouch!

73,  Duane


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