[Hallicrafters] More cruising

[JOE]

I remember this well.  I had a Hallicrafters S-38E and a Johnson Adventurer 
as my first novice station in 1958.  I only owned 2 crystals, one for 80 
and the other for 40 meters.  I had to wait for the frequency to be clear, 
call a long CQ and then tune up and down the novice portion of the band 
looking for a reply.  When I did hear a reply, I was careful not to 
transmit for too long for fear of the S-38E drifting and me loosing the 
station.  Heaven forbid if I accidently tapped the case of the S-38E while 
I was reaching for the DPDT knife switch to go from transmit to 
receive!!  The station would be lost and I wouldn't catch the beginning of 
the QSO to hear my callsign and tune him in.

I am presently resurrecting my old novice station.  I still have my 
original S-38E and picked up a couple of Adventurers' to make one good 
one.  While shopping, I found the screen modulator for the 
Adventurer.  This was always my novice dream, the AM the Adventurer when I 
was a general.  Well, a good friend took on the task to restore the S38E 
and the Adventurer.  I did some swapping with him for the work.  Soon I 
hope to fire up the station on 10 meter AM and see what I can work with my 
wopping 3 watts of Adventurer AM signal.  I even found my old JT-30 mike to 
boot.  The S-38E will probably have to warm up a day or two to be stable on 
10 meters.  Hopefully, I'll be able to hear my friend 15 miles away.

Oh, those were the good old days......right.

73, Joe, K1ike

At 11:12 AM 1/26/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>We would tune up and down the band when we were crystal bound novices 
>hoping someone was calling us. Many times, long minutes after
>calling CQ you could tune up 10 or 15 kHz and find someone calling you. 
>They also hoping against hope you would hear them and then
>gasp when they heard their call coming back over the air.
>Bill Marx W2CQ

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