[AMRadio] FW: Homebrew receiver

[Brett Gazdzinski]

I sent the article in today.

There has been a lot of talk about the ham radio hobby dying,
and I would say its so except for the AM crowd.

I can not see many young kids getting all fired up about radio
like I was as a kid.
I really got bit hard by the bug, and started building stuff
when I was about 14.
I actually got into ham radio at age 16, and started building
radio stuff around then.
Some stuff even worked.
I remember finding the sears repair dumpster, a gold mine for electronics
parts!

Modern rigs just don't do anything for me, and even commercial older
tube type ham rigs disappoint me, they were mostly quite poor
in design with marginal components, at least for any sort
of fidelity.

You can still buy kits, mostly qrp rigs, and I built one that
works surprisingly well (on CW), but IC chips just are not as
fun as tube stuff.

I was lucky that I bought loads of stuff when people were giving
it away at fests, both the full range of tube ham gear, and good
parts.
I plan on building more, lower power transmitters with built in VFO
and modulator, and maybe even a receiver built in.
Sort of like a home brew Gonset G76, only Hi Fidelity.

The only real enthusiasm I see on ham radio is on AM, restoring
the old stuff, modifying the new stuff, home brew, and the QRP
guys running kits on low power CW.

The rest seems to be a bunch of very old farts just talking,
like people do on the phone.

There is no reason you cant build things, it just takes a bit
of time to get all the parts, but you CAN get them.

Brett
N2DTS


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark J. Giubardo [mailto:w1mjg at arrl.net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:08 AM
> To: brett.gazdzinski at mci.com
> Subject: RE: [AMRadio] FW: Homebrew receiver
>
>
> Hi Brett,
>
> Just one comment from me. ITS GREAT! I can hardly wait to see
> it in ER with
> pictures!
> I am sure they will publish this as it is both interesting
> and well written
> in my opinion.
>
> Thanks for sharing your experiences...reminds me of the way
> HAM radio used
> to be!
>
> 73's,
> Mark  W1MJG
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amradio-admin at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:amradio-admin at mailman.qth.net]On
Behalf Of Brett Gazdzinski
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 8:46 PM
To: amradio at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [AMRadio] FW: Homebrew receiver

This is what I plan on sending to Electric Radio, along with
pictures.
What do you guys think?

Brett
 http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio