[K3PZN-List] Was Your First Transmitter Homebrew?

[Curt Milton]

I am interesting if any of you all used a homebrew tube transmitter when you were first licensed? (presuming by now that we all currently use a rig from Japan, that company on Dolly Parton Pkwy or Elecraft).  If you used such a rig, did you construct it yourself and did you make use of parts scrounged from a dead TV set?  
 
I know that 'slightly before my time' this practice was common, based upon articles in QST and in books in the library.  My own first rig was a used heathkit, but I remember asking the advisor of my high school club 'what is this 807 transmitter' the other guy was using.  
 
Some of you folk can't relate at all, as your first rig may have been 2m FM!  
 
73 Curt