[MilCom] [R-390] First radio thread

Tom Greenwood thegreenwoods1 at verizon.net
Tue Aug 16 23:45:39 EDT 2011


About 1973, yes, I am relatively a youngster.  A Telefunken table top tube
radio from 1960 with an old automobile AM radio antenna plugged into the
back and laying on the carpet of the living room.  Amazing what you could
hear with a crude set up like that.  All kinds of broadcasters many speaking
in unrecognizable languages, listening to the 1 second beeps of CHU Canada,
and the bizarre sounding FDM systems that sounded like a strange buzz saw.

All this led me to grow my interest in radio and I have enjoyed a 30 year
career in many aspects of wireless communications ever since, while at the
same time, still occassionally getting to play radio instead of work radio.

73's

Tom, N1JQB
Metro West Boston




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