06-14-15 09:30 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: New Ham

 HG> @MSGID: 
 HG> In a message dated 06-12-15, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

 HG> Hi Ed,
Howdy! Holger,

 HG> Yeah, those were the times when we still built our own gear
 HG> instead of as now being appliance operators, hi.

 EV> I built my DX-40 kit over 50 years ago.
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 HG> My first build however was a 6F6+807 xtal controlled
 HG> transmitter built on a discarded BC-radio chassis. The next one
 HG> was a fourteen tube double conversion ham-band receiver.

I have built accessories for my shack from construction articles I've
read in magazines but haven't even built a one tube Transmitter from
scratch.

When I was a Novice, one of my Ham friends in school told me he had
worked someone on CW who lived in my part of town, and that the guy was
using a 6L6 Transmitter so I visited the fellow to see the TX he built.

I put together a Heathkit FM Tuner to use with the Heath AA-32 Stereo
Amplifier for my Hi-Fi setup.
That's as close as I've gotten in receiver building.

But I have tinkered with the insides of my Hallicrafters SX-42 a little
bit by looking at the schematic and reading about how to service it.

The only 'fix' I done for my TS-520S is to install a CW filter in it.

I'm not completely ignorant, some parts are missing.

... "Falling Off a Cliff" - by Eileen Dover
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