[ARC5] Can yoiu say...

[millerke6f at aol.com]

RE: Ham use of command sets back in the good old days.  Let me recount the activities of an old friend, WA6MKC, Jerry Guilliams (SK).  His station was typical of a middle 50s ham station on a severe budget.  It consisted of a well used 80 meter command set transmitter with all the typical mods of the day to include a knob on the side to keep the finals in tune along with the added turns on the tank coil to aid in loading the dipole antenna.  The receiver was a beat up S-40 that worked pretty well on 75 fone and not much above that band.  A home brew plate modulator fabricated from a modulation transformer from a BC-375 with a pair of 807s in tow  did a great job in filling out the feeble carrier from the command set.  
    His one advantage over most of the other folks on the band in the North West was his dipole which was hoisted about 75 feet off the ground from an old two story shack that sat right on the tidal pools of Humboldt Bay, California.  With this modest station Jerry held court on the 75 meter band though out the early 1960s.
     I recall while on my annual National Guard trek to Ft. Louis, Washington tuning my trusty AN/GRC-19 to Jerry's frequency and hearing the "Massive" signal loud and clear as our convoy entered the gates of Ft. Lewis.  
    As I have said on a few occasions to many on the ARC5 list, "If not for ham's of that era collecting and putting to use this WWII war materiel, very little of it would have survived today for purists to argue over. It's a shame that  the folks who actually made use of the stuff, be it properly engineered or not, classify these folks up as Hackers or "Radio  Assassins."


Bob KE6F


-----Original Message-----
From: Glen Zook via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
To: Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>; Arc5 <Arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tue, Jun 13, 2017 3:31 pm
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Can yoiu say...



In the 1950s and well into the 1960s, a goodly number of the receivers that we used were drifty, broad as a barn in bandwidth, virtually deaf above 10 MHz, and those were the good features!  However, no one ever told us how bad the receivers actually were.  So, we were fat, dumb, and happy making thousands of QSO and, basically, "having a ball"!





 
Glen, K9STH  Website:  http://k9sth.net



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