[Elecraft] Farnsworth Method

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Egad, another 'Dino' Kurt!!! 
 
"Common knowledge" says that we O.T.s  don't mess with state-of-the-art
stuff like Elecraft makes. So much for "common knowledge"! 
 
Near the peak of that huge 1950's sunspot cycle I used to drive 10 miles
between college and my home in my '47 Studebaker Champion with an 8-foot
whip on the rear fender. I ran a Lysco mobile rig, crystal controlled on one
frequency on 10 meters. It made about 3 watts output AM: equal to about 1
watt SSB. While driving home from classes, I worked some Argentinean Hams
from Southern California almost every afternoon for weeks with great reports
both ways over a 6,000 statue mile path.
 
The younger Elecraft fans today should be allowed at least one of those
mega-sunspot-cycles in their lifetimes. 
 
I'd sure enjoy another one myself ;-) 
 
Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Cramer [mailto:w7qhd at msn.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:52 AM
To: Ron D'Eau Claire; elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Farnsworth Method


Ron & All,
 
I too was a novice in the early '50s. In fact I received the ticket in late
December '51. What a Christmas present! At about that same time I finished
the first semester of my freshman year in high school. I was taking a music
class. The teacher gave me a good grade and then suggested that I change to
a shop class next semester. I still can't dance, or send/receive CW very
well. I did operate quite a lot and got the General ticket by the next
Summer. It took two trys. The first I had some strings of characters in the
lower 60s, but none of 65! I'm sure you will tell me I just didn't stick to
it long enough. This may have happened because my father was licensed and
there was the 75A2 receiver Harvey-Wells AM transmitter on ten meters during
one of the best sun spot cycles of all time. 
 
Kurt