[SixClub] Novice license question 1970

[Roger (K8RI)]

kd4e wrote:
> I wonder what percentage of modern Hams have ever
> operated a rock-bound rig?
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Can I raise my hand?  OTOH I guess I'd not be considered modern, but my 
equipment is.
My CW is a bit rusty, but so are my joints

Let's see, my first transmitter was a home brew, pair of 6L6's with a 
6AG7 Oscillator with a pair of crystals for 40 and one for 80. Receiver 
was a Hallicrafters S-40B with a Heathkit Q-multiplier.  My second 
transmitter was a Globe Chief Deluxe (pair of 807's) with the same 3 
crystals. Then I build a Viking Ranger I from a kit...same three 
crystals...at least for a while. Traded the S-40B in on an RME6900. With 
the General, SSB was just getting a foot hold, so I'd carefully zero 
stations, and join in using PTT. I'd been talking with the same group on 
40 for close to a month when one of them happened to mention that I 
should check as I had a lot of carrier. I remarked you usually do when 
running AM which got a real rise out of them as no one had suspected I 
wasn't running SSB. Shortly after that I purchased a used HT-37.

Actually my first transmitter was briefly a piece of Navy surplus. I 
don't remember the ID, just that it had 3 807's following a 
driver/multiplier, following a crystal oscillator (same 3 crystals as 
mentioned above) With no manual, no experience and no test equipment.  I 
fired up and made my first and only contact with that rig.  I still have 
the QSL's...all three of them. One from the guy I worked on 75, plus one 
each from an OO AND the FCC on 40. I had a better signal on 40, or 
rather just above it than on 75, but all three gave me good signal 
reports. <:-))

My pair of 6L6's had much better harmonic suppression. <:-))

I *might* have some Novice course manuals from back then although the 
odds are kinda slim.

>> You're not going to find anything that old on the
>> Net.......When FCC updates their rules, the old rules are
>> deleted/erased.
>>
>> As for Novices, before Nov 1972, they had to be rock
>> bound iirc and 75watts DC input was the max power...When
>> I got my Novice in Feb 73, the rules had changed by then
>> to allow VFO operation..cant recall when the power
>> increase from 75 to 200 output was allowed..
>>     
"I think" the rules for that were changed at or after the Advanced Class 
became available again.


73

Roger (K8RI)
>> Chris WB5ITT
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