[Elecraft] [OT] Jurassic Radio vs K3

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

That's great! (My Novice day photos from the early 1950's got lost years ago
in a move along with the logs, sigh!) Tnx for the photos. 

You guys had *great* receivers to work with. My first receiver was a
Meissner regen using type 76 triodes in detector and audio amp. That was
replaced by a Hallicrafters S-38. It was a basic AA5 five tube receiver with
short wave coverage, only a small step up from the regen in that it didn't
require two hands to tune it and it served me for my Novice days and for
several years afterward. 

Ron AC7AC 

-----Original Message-----


I was WN8DVT-WA8DVT in Dayton in about 1960.  See picture of my first 
stations here:
http://s748.photobucket.com/albums/xx121/W4TQ/?action=view&current=StationsL
R.jpg

The top picture shows my Hallicrafters Sky Champion (was an antique when I 
got it) and an Ameco AC-1 (AC-1 kit bought mail order from an ad in QST).

The next picture, after I got my General, shows on the far right a homebrew 
single tube 6146 amplifier, and a Heathkit VF1 VFO.  On top of the VF1 is a 
6AU6 push-pull modulator I built from plans in an old ARRL manual.  I used 
the modulator on the 6146's screen grid.  By setting the control grid bias 
just right, the screen modulation produced a double sideband signal (sort 
of)--I got good audio reports as such, anyway.  I couldn't afford to buy an 
output transformer to build a plate modulator to run AM.

As you can see, my station was in the attic.  The antenna was a 40 meter 
dipole which ran from one end of the attic to the other (just above my 
head), and then out through a hole to a tree in the front yard.

Dan - W4TQ
K3 - 3020