[BARC-List] Catalogs, etc.

[Steve Isenberg]

Looks like you switched and got a vanity call sign, and a nice one at that. 
Did you encounter any *resistance* to the change?  :-)
-steve N1TMQ

--- W1OHM at aol.com wrote:

> As a boy, I would spend hours looking through the electronics catalogs and  
> buying components in the mail.  There were three I used in the early  60's, 
> Radio Shack, Lafayette Radio Electronics, and, in Chicago where I  grew up, 
> Allied Radio (later acquired by Radio Shack to become Allied Radio  Shack).
>  
> Allied gave ham radio classes one night a week, and that's where  I learned 
> Morse code and radio theory over several months.  After  getting my novice 
> ticket through them, I bought their Knight Kit 50 watt  transmitter and
> picked up 
> three crystals (no VFO allowed).  Used  my Dad's Hallicrafter's Super
> Skyrider 
> receiver (model S-9) and began  working 40m CW.  Still remember the very 
> distinctive fists of some of the  operators using their bugs - WN5INZ comes
> to 
> mind.  I assembled  a keyer kit using vacuum tubes and a mercury relay. 
> Still 
> use  it.
>  
> The other catalog I carried around with me all the time was a mini 
> hardcover 
> book of tubes, fit in my shirt pocket.  A good complement  for the slide
> rule 
> (Post Versalog) on my belt.  Even years later I  preferred a slide rule over
> 
> a calculator.  You could see the answer  converging and you were never way
> off 
> due to a keying error.
>  
> W1OHM (ex WN9KSZ)
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