[Boatanchors] Do I Remember??

[jeremy-ca]

I grew up thru that era having been licensed in 1955.

The rich folks still had their Collins KW-1, Globe King, Johnson Desk KW and 
a few others that worked well on 10/15M. However TV's still had 21 Mc IF's 
and that was a big problem on 15M.

Most of the older homebrew kilowatts used PP triodes and plug in coils and 
the owners were satisfied on 80-20M. The later amps with 4-250, 4-400 and 
similar tetrodes were often built around a B&W pi network assembly and were 
fairly common on 10 and 15.

In 58 I had a Viking I driving PP 250TH's. After one try on 15M resulted in 
TVI reports from up to 3 miles away I stayed on 80-20 or operated barefoot 
on CW! My parents were not amused!

In 57-59 I ran mobile with a TBS-50 and HB converter and regularly worked 
ZS, ZL, VK and a lot of other DX on 10 and 15M.

At home I worked some 6 to 10M crossband with DX; I was running homebrew 
100W to a HB 4 over 4 off the eaves of a 2 story home.

By 59-60 I was gettin deep into SSB and had a 10A driving a variety of HB 
amps up to a "loafing" KW pair of 4-400A's. Well shielded with a LPF and no 
longer able to be ID'ed on TV sets.

Its come full cycle and now Im building gear around 211's, HK-354's, 813's 
and 810's. The receivers and accessories match the era of the transmitters.

My sooper dooper modern station stays idle unless the Packet Cluster tells 
me a new one is on some band or other. Except for digging deep in the noise 
on 160 CW and also 6M for a new one the excitement is gone.

Back to basics. Ive even succumbed to listening to the Red Sox on tube 
receivers scattered thru out the house. And the SX-62A and R-42 speaker 
sound better on FM than the fancy import crap.

Carl
KM1H




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at msn.com>
To: <glowbugs at piobaire.mines.uidaho.edu>; "Boatanchors list" 
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Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 3:02 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Do I Remember??


Do I remember correctly.

During the HOT TIME in 1957/58 people in the States were working Austraila 
on 10M with low power transmitter. gennerally 25w or less.

That was also the period of the first Class D CB service. And even CBers 
were working Austrailia on 5W.

At that time 10M was a common mobile band so lower power transmitter were 
also common.

Do I remember that in that peroiod that high power transmitters were not 
common on 15M and 10M. Remember, those were the days before the high power 
linears that became popular in the 60's.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa,
"Real Radios Glow in the Dark"
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