[ARC5] Way OT -- SX-28

[William Cromwell]

Hi Jim,

Shame on you! We can never have too many radios!

One of my uncles had radio things but I was never allowed to touch or 
even watch. Later I learned he was unlicensed - a pirate ham. All that 
gear when I did peak in fascinated 8 year me.

73,

Bill KU8H

bark less - wag more

On 8/4/21 7:39 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
>
> My uncle W5FRX owned one of those receivers.  On the rare occasions when
> I got to visit him I was enchanted to be able to turn all those knobs
> and see what they did.  Of course back then all the amateur phone 
> operation was AM and there was a lot of AM shortwave on the air, so there
> was plenty to listen to.  (And even AM BC band was worth listening to in
> those long ago days.)
>
> My uncle also had a home built transmitter that I was quite impressed
> by.  I was too young to appreciate all its features, but I think he used
> bandpass couplers between stages so that it wasn't necessary to tune
> each stage.  I remember he spent many hours on the work bench running
> the VFO from one end of a band to the other while measuring something.
>
> Well in his old age and after a heart attack he gave up ham radio and
> had the gear all hauled away.  He did say something once about maybe
> he should get some modern gear like a Yaesu, but I guess he never acted
> on it.  I sure wish he had offered his stuff to me, not because I needed
> it but because it would have made wonderful keepsakes.
>
> A few years ago I decided I'd like to have an SX-28 for myself, as sort
> of a reminder of those golden days of yore.  I bought one on ebay, don't
> remember how much I paid for it.  It had been recapped once, but the
> replacement caps were about as bad as the originals so I recapped it 
> again.  One of the IF transformers was bad, and by incredible luck there
> was somebody on ebay offering the exact transformers, so I was able
> to get a replacement.  Also it was a rack mount receiver, or at least
> without the case.  Another piece of incredible luck was that at a
> hamfest one of my friends encountered someone selling a couple of SX-28s,
> one of which was pretty much a salvage unit but the case was in pretty
> good shape and he gave it to me.  My friend took the other one and got
> it working.
>
> Well I haven't made much use of it, considering that I have too many
> radios and that there is so little of an AM nature to listen to and
> the modern gear is so much more compact and easy to operate.
>
> Jim W6JVE
>
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