[Boatanchors] Old mobile transmitter?

Fri Mar 1 07:52:09 EST 2019

Bob writes...

> I remember also building one the worked on the broadcast band. We could talk
to girls at the drive-in on Friday and Saturday nights.

He he - I bet THAT was fun!

We used to talk with them in between the busy signal beeps on phones in the Atlanta area in the late 1960s.   You could call a mutual phone number (wrong numbers) on certain exchanges, ending with -9499,  -9399,  -9299 ec.
When multiple people called those unused lines, you could all hear one
another in between the noise of the beeps and the other people yelling.

Like others, we would try to get in a "conversation" and then get
the young ladies to yell out their phone number one digit at a time
in between the beeps. Sometimes they gave fake phone numbers
to prank the guys. We did meet a couple of them, and became friendly,
but for the most part it was a lot of amusement for teenagers who
didn't want to do homework, LOL.

Transmitting on the medium wave / AM band at the drive-in or the drive in restaurants would have to have been a lot more fun!  Whgat a pity our society no longer has these common denominator type broadcast media!

Bry AF4K, Ex-G3XLQ

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Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2019 13:47
To: Charles Vest
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Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Old mobile transmitter?

In th e50'sand 60's AM was the mode for mobile operation. I think most used
screen grid modulation. You would probably need to get a group of tinkerers
together to make this stuff useful.

I remember also building one the worked on the broadcast band. We could talk
to girls at the drive-in on Friday and Saturday nights.

I do remember cases of the T-17 microphone being used as the cathode
resistor of the speech amplifier. T-17's were plentiful and cheap in those
days.

I have a 12V vibrator transformer but no vibrator. The transformer gives
165V.

Vintage 12V solid state car radios are more common than vibrator powered
radios. But they don't have any HV.

I've been thinking about changing the tubes in my Gonset converter to 12V
space charge tube to used it with a 12V car radio.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Vest" <cvest at cox.net>
To: "Ray LaRue" <w4byg at att.net>; <boatanchors at qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2019 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Old mobile transmitter?

> Interesting reading . Can't say I remember that particular transmitter .
>
> Just last week my mobile setup for my 1956 Buick made it to the tear down
> bench to get restored so I can get it in the car this summer .
>
> The transmitter is a Mars Thunderbird ( Made in Japan ) with a Gonset
> Super 6 converter .
>
> Would be especially interested in anyone else using this transmitter or
> any hints or tips on restoring this pair . Haven't ever used either of
> them in my 54 years as a ham .
>
> Charlie , W5COV
>
>> On February 21, 2019 at 10:29 AM Ray LaRue <w4byg at att.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Over 60 years ago my first mobile tx was a cheap kit called a Web
>> Junior. It was crystal controlled. I powered it by a WW2 DM-35
>> dynamotor and I used a WW2 like, carbon mike. I had to wait about 2
>> seconds after keying it for the dynamotor to spin up, in order to talk!
>>
>> My mentor, Andy Clark, W4IYT, helped me find it and build it up. I used
>> it with an old Gonset 3-30 converter into my Ford car radio. No receiver
>> bandspred, or noise squelch, just signals and band noise.
>>
>> Pretty primitive by today's standards, but it worked and provided a lot
>> of fun on 10 meters. Even while driving a "stick shift" car.
>>
>> I believe Web Electronics was located in Hartford, Conn.
>>
>> I wonder if anyone remembers that tx and maybe has some info on it. I
>> haven't been able to find anything about it via the web. I'd love to
>> find one just for the nostalgia.
>>
>> Your attention is appreciated.
>> Ray, W4BYG
>>
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