[Boatanchors] Novice Transmitter Thoughts?

[Bob Peters]

Our High School had a BC610E that was the ROTC MARS Station... We also had a
ham club that had a DX40 and an SX99... When we were in uniform we could use
the MARS Station on the ham bands and when we went to electronics class we
would use the club station so we got a lot of hamming down at school. We had
about 10 or 15 hams in the school plus two adult hams...Good Old BANGOR HIGH
in Bangor Me...

Bob W1PE

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Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 11:53 AM
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Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Novice Transmitter Thoughts?

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.

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480
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