[TVARC] more trivia

[John Ellis]

Hi folks,

Well, Pete came up with his trivia,
lets see how you all do with this
one. Send your answers to:

john.np2b at gmail,com

Results will be published this
coming Thursday.

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Collins Radio Company products were the envy of just about every ham in the
1950s and 60s. What single feature, outside of their high cost,
differentiated post war Collins equipment from it’s competitors?



The 1625 was the 12 volt equivalent of what popular transmitting tube?



The Heath Company made a lot of amateur radio equipment in the 1950s thru
the 70s.  What was their first amateur radio product

and how much did it sell for?



What was the last company that offered a high quality bandswitched CW/SSB
transceiver in kit form? (you had to wind your own coils and solder all
components).



At the beginning of WW2, a company supplied a “mobile rig” to the US
government. The  transmitter weighed about 400 pounds. It was

mounted in the back of a GMC panel truck

which pulled a gasoline generator mounted on a  trailer for power. What was
the name of this

company?

What company is credited with the invention of the transistor?



Icom is a very well known manufacturer of radio  equipment for amateur,
marine, aircraft  and land mobile service. When was it founded?



Who made the first commercially available  electronic keyer and how many
transistors

did it have?



Who made the first domestically produced software defined ham rig (SDR)
and what

was it called?



Who manufactured the first widely accepted antenna analyzer for amateur
radio service?



How many diodes does it take to make a half wave voltage doubler?


In 1934, WLW Cincinnati received special FCC

authorization to go to 500,000 watts on the

AM broadcast  band. The special  tubes used

in the final  and modulator were water cooled

and there was a pond in front of the building which was used as a radiator
to dissipate the

tremendous amount of heat generated by

the tubes. What else was the heat used for?





                          EXTRA CREDIT



 4U1ITU, 4U1WB, 4U1UN, W1AW and K2DM, as a group, count for how many DXCC
credits?



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 Good Luck! Send your answers in

by Wednesday.

   (john.np2b at gmail.com)


73,

John, NP2B

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John Ellis         (NP2B)
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The Villages, FL 32163

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