[ARC5] REAL regen receivers RAL/RAK.

[Larry Godek]

In my senior year in HS i had told the school people that i was more interested in learning electronics than working on a car, which i didn't own anyway.  So the shop teacher gave me some old piece of a chassis with some parts on it and said to get with it.  When i asked for a soldering iron he gave me a dumb look and said they didn't have such a thing.  Couple of days later he showed up with a "soldering copper" about 2 inches square and told me that's what i had to use.  Something akin to what i used when working with lead with the Ma Bell consortium.  Time i got it heated up and one wire either soldered or unsoldered it would be time for class to end.  What a wasted hour of class time.  Did a lot of book learning though.
Obviously not english.

Larry
W0OGH


--- On Tue, 6/8/10, Neil <neilb at ihug.co.nz> wrote:

From: Neil <neilb at ihug.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [ARC5] REAL regen receivers RAL/RAK.
To: "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment." <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 3:37 PM

>I built it in our
> kitchen using a soldering iron/copper that I had to heat in the
> gas stove burner for each connection!

Brings back embarrassing memories of my attempt to solder a
homebrew project with a 15watt soldering iron, and being unable
to make the solder flow, making a trip into town to buy a 65watt
iron. Which also didn't work. Well, I was only 14 years old and
nobody told me you can't solder to aluminium  :-)

73 de Neil ZL1ANM

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