[Boatanchors] DO YOU REMEMBER

[Daniel Wright]

Greetings!

I had a "kit" like this about ten years later in 1962. It was called the 
"Progressive Edu-Kit" and you could make a wondrous array of tube 
marvels, all with the same set of parts, including a part 15 AMBC 
transmitter. It came with a resistance cord for the power supply 
voltages (no transformer) and a U-shaped chassis, open at the ends. A 
prescription for electric shock, as I more than once picked the thing up 
whilst plugged in and paid for my stupidity! Imagine something like that 
being marketed these days?!?!?

73 de Dan -- WAØJRD ..


> Hi Bill,
>
> For my 12th birthday in 1952, my parents secretly bought the grand high
> exalted mysterious radio kit of my dreams.  "BUILD 20 DIFFERENT RADIOS"
> including a TRANSMITTER!!!!!  I would soon be able to communicate with
> anyone on the planet earth and possibly extraterrestrials!!!  My brother
> only after many hours of torture and taking possession of my Red Ryder BB
> gun relented and divulged the location of the Radio Kit.