[Lowfer] Rememberances

[Peter Barick]

Hi All,

Like Tom and Dex, I have similar grounding in "electronics." First hearing two 6th grade friends doing telegraph between adjacent houses (bedroom to bedroom style), I made a sounder but had no local pal to connect with. Next came a boy's experimenter book from the school library. I built a regen using a 1H4G triode, but burned out the filament on switching the batteries. H.S. was the big jump into real ham stuff. An older boy had his license (seemed so adult then) and his HB rig of 807's piqued my interest. Then came the WWII surplus equipment, parts galore . Those WERE the days.

Beyond that which seems common here, where are the boys with electronics of today? I don't see or hear of them. I realize all fads have their time, was radio one of them? Seems so. Check on all the silver hair seen atttending hamfests these days, even the numbers are slipping. Internet, Rap music, PC games are all suspect. Still I don't get it.

Peter

>>> Tom <n8tl at woh.rr.com> 09/05/08 9:29 AM >>>
Gee...back in the early 50's, another friend and I used a neon sign
transformer working a 1 inch gap against ground into a longwire antenna
to communicate. Boy...what a pretty sounding buzzzz across the spectrum
that was! It made for some good 20's cw.
Tom N8TL