[Boatanchors] Novice Transmitter Thoughts?

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Did I ever mention that my novice station was a BC-610-E?  The exciter 
section, that is.  Rig actually belonged to AF MARS but wasn't being used after 
we received a new Eldico S-Line clone.  So no one minded when I pulled the 
250TH and bypassed it.  Only had one crystal in the 80 Meter Novice band.  
Needless to say, I didn't make a lot of contacts.  :-)  Receiver was an S-76, 
which stayed on the crystal freq.  Used the Eldico to check up and down the 
band.  

In a message dated 9/11/2010 11:38:50 AM Central Daylight Time, 
arc5 at ix.netcom.com writes: 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Garey Barrell <k4oah at mindspring.com>
> >>Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Novice Transmitter Thoughts?
> >
> >Yes, 'some' had wealthy parents,........
> 
> Nuu-uuh!  I had to buy my own stuff or trade for it.
> I started working for "real money" (as in I got a 
> paycheck) when I was 13 (yes; I lied about my age and
> they never checked it).  My first full station was 
> a Hallicrafters S-120 receiver which I traded for
> (you could hear the whole Novice band at once, 
> and all of 40-meters was about a
> quarter of an inch on the dial)  and my BC-459.
> I scrounged old dumped TVs from the woods to build
> the power supply, which smoked-up in about a week.
> 73 Dave S.

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