[Elecraft] Super K3

[Duncan Carter]

My novice operations spanned the first summer that I had a license, 
1954.  I had a 25 watt crystal controlled homebrew transmitter which I 
couldn't get to work on 40 because it was neutralized with a twisted 
wire capacitor and a Hallicrafters S40B receiver, which was definitely 
in the  "broad as a barn door" category.  I could receive almost the 
whole 80 meter novice band which was fine in the daytime.  I could hear 
past 20 KHz so I didn't miss much.  On the other hand, reception at 
night was impossible.  On the day that I passed the General at the FCC 
office, I also bought a neutralizing capacitor from Radio Parts at 807 
Howard Avenue in New Orleans, which gave the transmitter's 826 triode 
final stable enough neutralization to work 40.  Shortly thereafter, I 
bought a used HRO-50T which had a five position crystal filter.

Heaven!

Dunc, W5DC


Terry Schieler wrote:
> Yep.  The "broad as a barn door" reciever thing was a great feature in those days since we were crystal controlled transmit and had no idea where on the Novice band the reply to our CQ would come from.
>
> W0FM
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Bloom [mailto:n1al at cds1.net] 
> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 11:43 AM
> To: n5ge at n5ge.com
> Cc: Elecraft Reflector
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Super K3
>
> On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 11:19 -0600, Radio Amateur N5GE wrote:
> ...
>   
>> Those of you who weren't hams when you had to do the Novice thing
>> haven't experienced a fully utilized Novice portion of a band.  If you
>> didn't have a CW filter it was hard to make a contact that lasted very
>> long.
>>     
>
> I dunno, I used to make lots of contacts with my trusty Knight Kit Star
> Roamer.  That thing was a real joke of a receiver.  The entire novice
> band was about 1/8 inch wide on the dial.  You had to tune reeeeeely
> carefully.  The selectivity was broad as a barn door, which was actually
> a good thing because the receiver never came back to the same frequency
> after a transmission so you had to tune around to find the station you
> were working.
>
> "And I had to walk two miles in the snow to school every morning..."
>
> Al N1AL
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