[Boatanchors] ** Wanted to buy Home Broadcasters, Phono Oscillators, and Babysitters!

[ed sharpe]

Ok the latest tangent for a future display are:

Home Broadcasters, Phone Oscillators and Babysitters!

looking  for the acual items of course, but to go along with that,  =
advertisements, and  some first hand oral history  about your early =
experiences and  fun and  trouble yuo got into etc etc  regarding these =
devices! =20

It would be interesting to now how many folks that  enjoyed these went =
into some form of boradcasting.....

Three that I remember myself were the=20

 knight kit little  blue unit with the 50c5's in it ( had loads of fun =
with one of these! This baby would be fun to play with again!)

the RCA Unit ( I almost remember this having a pentode or a pentagrid  =
tube in it.....

Lafayette unit... Did not have one but always looked in the catalog at =
it.

Was  there also a heathkit unit?  I seem to think so but a catalog check =
will  fill in the details of it's existence.


a close brother to the home broadcaster  was the 'baby sitter' and knew =
people when I was young that kludged extra inputs and preamps onto =
these..... =20

Yep want examples of all of them! cash, trade, free... whatever!

But most of all want some history of  peoples involvement with them to =
add to the section on the web site.

Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC

Please check our web site at
 http://www.smecc.org
to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
buy, and by all means  when in Arizona drop in and see us.

address:

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glendale az 85301

 

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