[Boatanchors] Novice Transmitter Thoughts?

[Carl]

Its a small world Rob as I was at the Peoria Hamfest both those years while 
I was living in Roselle and working for a NH company in Chicago down by 
Union Station on W Jackson. I was also at the first NSRA Street Rod 
Nationals in Peoria in August 1970 in a hurriedly thrown together 36 Ford 
coupe I had found on a S.Wisconsin farm a few months earlier. Talk about 
patina and barn fresh!

Boatanchor related: That car was packed to overflowing inside and in the 
trunk with 20's battery radios and a few early AC TRF's. I still have many 
of them.

Carl
KM1H



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
To: "Boat Anchors List" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Novice Transmitter Thoughts?


>I love my parents dearly and don't want this to sound bad about them
> but they didn't give me any money for radio.  They DID take me to
> hamfests however, which sometimes involved an all-day trip, like the
> time they took me to the Peoria hamfest in either 1972 or 71, can't
> remember the exact year.  I clearly recall that was the hamfest where
> I bought my WW2 surplus Lightning Bug which I still have and use
> occasionally.  We lived in the south suburbs.   All my gear was bought
> at hamfest flea markets, and usually didn't work, but local hams (now
> mostly SK) showed me how to find the problems and fix them.  That was
> when every ham had a bench in his shack.    I got somebody's homebrew
> xtal controlled CW rig (all I remember about it was that it was small
> but very well built and put out about 15 watts and it worked) for 80
> and 40.  My rx which I still have, was an Allied Radio branded solid
> state general coverage rx that wobbled the CW note if you banged on
> the table.  I got it from a guy with a bonus from the Chicago Tribune
> for delivering papers through the winter.  One Saturday I took the
> train into the Loop and walked across it to the C&NW station (Chicago
> and Northwestern) and got on a train there and took that out to
> Wheaton.   I felt like I was way out in the sticks.  Somehow I found
> the Wheaton hamfest and spent the day there and then got back home on
> the train.  I think that was where I bought the Allied rx but my
> memory of those days is pretty fuzzy.  All my money for radio came
> from a paper route.   If parents let their kid take a train alone to
> Wheaton today they'd probably be prosecuted for child endangerment.
>
> 73
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
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