Greetings Ed!

 Brer Ed Vance wrote to Brer Roy Witt about Re: Resurrected:

 RW>>> The oldest radio I have is a Hallicrafters 'World Wide'
 RW>>> receiver, that has AM on it, but no BFO to enable hearing SSB.
 RW>>> It was portable running on a 6 volt battery, but hasn't been
 RW>>> mobile since I've owned it.

 EV>> A Hallicrafters SX-42 with freq. coverage 540Kc/s to 108Mc/s AM, CW
 EV>> and FM is my oldest piece of gear.

 RW>> 1940s...My 'World Wide' is from that era.

 EV> Your radio might have been made and sold B4 mine was.

Could be.

 EV> Does the Hallicrafters World Wide just use one 6V battery, not
 EV> seperate batteries for Filament and B+ like some I've seen long ago?

I don't remember. It has space enough for both, but I know I removed those
when I got it since I didn't want to clean up a leaking battery mess
later. It also has an AC pwr supply, so that's the only use it has seen.

 EV> My older brother had a AM portable that used a 67.5V B battery that
 EV> was about the same size if two 9V batteries were put one on top
 EV> another. His radio may have had a seperate A battery for the
 EV> filaments, I can't remember much about it because I was only 9 or 10
 EV> years old when he got it.

 EV> A couple of years later when a friend showed me his Hallicrafter
 EV> S-38C and I got interested in Shortwave listening, my uncle said
 EV> something my new interest to a neighbor down the street, and the
 EV> neighbor gave me a Midwest Shortwave Radio he had.

 EV> The Filter Choke for that radio was on the back of a big speaker that
 EV> had a wire which plugged into the back of the radio.

 EV> I opened it and looked inside the chassis to see how it was made.
 EV> There was some parts that had a wire on each end but the middle was
 EV> flexible, so I asked what they were and was told they were Resistors.
 EV> I never have seen those kind of Resistors in any other circuit.
 EV> -snip-

This one has a 'thing-a-ma-jig' in the back cover that plugs into
something, I don't recall where anymore and it is wired with twin lead, so
I imagine it is an internal antenna. It also has a telescoping antenna and
the face of it isn't like any Hallicrafters that I rememeber. Its face is
flat with 8 bands tuned the full width of the radio, switchable thru the
tuner knob on the left and volume control on the right. The flip up
top/face-cover has a world map on it and it gives you an idea of what
was/is tunable in a 24hr format. It is on now, but it will fade and drift
after an hour or so.

 EV>> I earned the Novice License 3 months before the FCC opened the CB
 EV>> Service to U.S. Citizens. I was 16 years old and just bought my
 EV>> Hallicrafters S-38E the same day my Novice ticket arrived in the
 EV>> mail.

 RW>> So, you're not so old afterall. I was going on 19 when the FCC
 RW>> opened up 11mtrs to CB radio. One of the first 5 in town to
 RW>> have a CB license.

 EV> I'm 72, so you're 75?

73.

 EV>> I saved up for a Heathkit DX-40 instead of a CW Only DX-20 and
 EV>> ordered my first TX in September '58 the same month the 11 Meter
 EV>> Amateur Radio Band was given to the Citizens Band Service. I wanted
 EV>> the more costly DX-40 because it had a Carrier Controlled Modulator
 EV>> circuit, where as the DX-20 didn't have it built in, but could be
 EV>> modified for AM with a simple circuit add on. -snip-

 RW>> Back then we were operating Heathkit 'lunchboxes' on 11mtr.
 RW>> They had a tuneable front end, but a xtal controlled xmiter.
 RW>> And, you could only have one xtal in the box at a time. And AM
 RW>> operation only.

 EV> I built a lunchbox Sixer and asked a friend to build a one transistor
 EV> oscillator for me so I could put a Bud Box on the side of the Sixer
 EV> and use a Mallory Rotary Switch to select from several Crystal
 EV> Sockets on the box what frequency I want to transmit at.

That was illegal for a CBer to do, but we did the same thing. It sure beat
looking through a pile of xtals and wasting time making the change.

 EV> He built the oscillator on a one inch piece of perfboard and put it
 EV> in one half of a Clear Plastic Dome-Shaped container that originally
 EV> came from a coin operated machine that kids used to put a Dime in at
 EV> the grocery store, to get a knick-knack inside of the plastic
 EV> container.

 EV> He filled the container with Clear Epoxy, and had 4 wires sticking
 EV> out of it, 2 wires I connected to a 9V battery in series with a
 EV> pushbutton switch on top of the Bud Box, the other two wires were
 EV> connected to the Mallory Switch to select several Crystal Sockets.

 EV> When I wanted to go from 50.7 Mc/s to 50.4 Mc/s, I turned the Rotary
 EV> Switch, pressed the pushbutton switch to turn the oscillator on, and
 EV> tuned the Sixers Regenerative Receiver Tuning knob to the oscillators
 EV> noise. It Worked!
 EV> -snip-

Cool. My novice licensed friend knew how all that worked, built it so all
I needed to do was learn how to use it.

 RW>>> Since we're approaching April 1, here's a link to check out
 RW>>> from last year's April 1.

 RW>>> http://radioartisan.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/genachowski.jpg

 EV>> I saw the .JPG, is the photo of You?

 RW>> LOL! No...

 EV>> Looking at the photo I couldn't figure out what it had to do with
 EV>> April Fools Day, or with Psalms 14:1 or Psalms 53:1 ?

 RW>> The caption reads: In a shocking and unexpected move, the FCC
 RW>> today transferred all amateur radio licensing responsibility to
 RW>> QRZ.com, releasing Report and Order 2013-699.  Outgoing
 RW>> Chairman Julius Genchowski read a statement before Congress
 RW>> noting (cut). cApril 1, 2013...

 EV> I didn't see any caption, just the photo of someone.

You have to learn how to back up on a website. If you delete the link to
the picture and just leave site.com and click your browser's 'go there'
command, you can see the entire page where that photo came from. Scroll
down a ways and you see the photo and why it is linked to April 1, aka
April Fools day.

 EV> But that may be caused by my use of NoScript with the Firefox browser
 EV> and I hadn't Allowed a part of the web page to be displayed that
 EV> would show me the Caption. -snip-

 EV>>> Some local Ham Radio Clubs have web pages, but I rarely check them
 q EV>>> out. BBS messages and QRZ are were I learn what's happening on
 q EV>>> the
 EV>>> Bands.

c EV>> Maybe you can find out about the weekly ARN broadcast if you took a
 EV>> look at a Amateur Radio Club's web pages to see if it tells you the
 EV>> Time and Freq. the ARNewsline is heard.
 EV>> -snip-

 RW>> I read the release in text mode in HAM, where I post it from an
 RW>> email I receive from them.

 EV> I thought you were talking about wondering if a ARN recording was
 EV> played by some local Amateur Operator or Club over the air each week,
 EV> so You could listen to it too.

I listen to a repeater that holds a session they hold for members. They
haven't done much of anything, just talk about old-timer stuff.

 EV> There I go thinking again........

Don't ever stop. The alternative isn't adapted to thinking yet.


         R\%/itt - K5RXT

 On Ward's exalted throne, he is still seated on nothing but his big arse.



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