[Milsurplus] Way OT -- Rice Boxes

[MICHAEL ST ANGELO]

Thanks for the link.


I was always interested in portable operation with small rigs. Since this is the Milsurplus Group one of my earliest "portable" receivers was a BC-453 with a 40 meter converter installed in place of the dynamotor. I built various tube and solid state transmitters to go with the set.


Mike N2MS

 

> On January 26, 2018 at 11:12 AM Robert Nickels wrote:
> 
> 
>     On 1/26/2018 8:31 AM, MICHAEL ST ANGELO wrote:
> 
>         > > I definitely have to get it and add it to my collection
> > 
> >     >     Heh heh... mission accomplished Mike, now I'm not the only one!
> 
>     Not to belabor this OT on this reflector but since I started it, some
>     may have heard of the bitx20 or other similar radios and wonder why all
>     the fuss...so rather than try to summarize I'll just post this link to a
>     pdf presentation that shows the entire history of the bitx family over
>     the past 14 years:
> 
>     https://rohith.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/13025966/bitx_qrpacificon..pdf
> 
>     What is relevant to this group is the common thread of ham innovation,
>     just as was the case when post-WWII when military surplus equipment
>     became available at low-cost. Farhan, VU2ESE designed the original
>     bitx20 as a very simple low-cost single conversion SSB transceiver using
>     cheap, readily available components and you can see the many variations
>     on that theme that have occurred since. The uBitx is just the latest,
>     and much more sophisticated version.
> 
>     73, Bob W9RAN
> 
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