[Elecraft] Things to do while waiting on your Elecraft kit

[John Ragle]

I wonder how many of these beasties Hallicrafters sold? I saw one in the 
flesh during my many visits to the Station KFAR Transmitter Site on 
Farmers' Loop Road near Fairbanks, AK when I was a sub-teen. KFAR went 
on the air around 1940, and probably used the dual-diversity receiver to 
get information from Stateside before the war and the Signal Corps' 
provision of communication...at the time, the back-country telephone 
WIRE (singular) ran on stick tripods through the muskeg along the 
Richardson "Highway," and of course the Alcan Highway did not exist.

John Ragle -- W1ZI (ex-KL7PM)

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On 7/11/2011 1:57 PM, Anthony Simons wrote:
> While waiting on your Elecraft kit you might want to read up on a dual
> diversity receiver.  Radio Shack had the Hallicrafter Skyrider with dual
> diversity receiver that had Infinite Adjacent Channel Rejection on page
> two of their 1939 catalog! Is there truly anything new in electronics?
> See it here: http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalogs/1939/