[R-390] First radio thread

[Thomas Frobase]

It's like walking into Fair Radio, I never will forget that smell ... 
tom, N3LLL

On 8/16/2011 8:14 PM, Cecil Acuff wrote:
> 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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