[R-390] First radio thread

[Cecil Acuff]

This will sound strange to the younger guys but a big part of Shortwave 
listening and ham radio in the 60's and 70's for me was the odors.  The 
smell of the hot tubes and other things in the radio's...especially 
transmitters was like a third dimension that is missing in today's 
equipment.  Every now and then an odor from a tube radio will hit a receptor 
somewhere and memories will appear of an early experience.  Funny how that 
works...

Cecil
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Subject: Re: [R-390] First radio thread


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> My first SW radio was a 1938 model Zenith wood cabinet table model with
> the big multi colored round dial.
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> When I started to study for my Novice, I ordered a BFO coil from Miller
> Radio complete with instructions for adding an outboard BFO. My Novice
> station was the Zenith and a DX-20. That was in 1958, I think.
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> Then I acquired a 40M ARC5 RCVR. Then I delivered enough newspapers on
> my bicycle to buy an SX-71.
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> I wish I still had the Zenith, but in the mid 60s, in a weak moment, I
> traded it for a WWII US Navy Quartermaster glass, which I still have,
> but seldom use these days. I do still have my original J-37 key.
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> When I was a kid I used to haunt the local radio shop, a one man shop
> owned by a guy named Harry Romain. Harry was a very nice fella, and
> always had a cigar between his teeth. And to this day I can conjure up
> in my head the smell of tube radio shop mixed with cigar smoke. Better
> than any cologne.
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> Roger
> K7DDG
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