04-03-14 16:29 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Resurrected

 RW> {at}MSGID: 
 RW> Greetings Ed!
Howdy Brer Roy!
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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm 72, so you're 75?

 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.

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

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

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

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

I didn't see any caption, just the photo of someone.
But that may be caused by my use of NoScript with the Firefox browser
and I hadn't Allowed a part of the web page to be displayed that would
show me the Caption.
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 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 the
 EV>> Bands.

 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.

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

There I go thinking again........

... My work is so secret even I don't know what I'm doing!
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