[78-L] RCA dealers' phono?

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

I had a lot of fun as a young ham too (that old call not disclosed because I use 
it as a password on several web sites) starting at 13 years old when I passed my 
general class license in 1972. Back then I also put together (before I got my 
ham ticket a few months later) a buzzer made out of a relay fed with about 20 
volts of raw AC from a toy train transformer before I ever knew that spark gaps 
(damped waves) were illegal. Connected it directly to my random wire antenna 
then started walking away with a portable National Panisonic shortwave reciever 
that I owned. The antenna was resonant close to 6 mhz & I finally lost the 
buzzing signal about a mile from my house. That was interesting at the time. I 
shut it off when I got home since the relay was getting really torn up by the 
sparking on the contacts.

My first ham transmitter was a WWII surplus ART-13. Ran a lot of CW back then as 
the SSB guy's didn't like AM too well. I didn't get on SSB till a few years 
later thanks to a Collins KWS-1 that I got from a deceased ham. I built a few 
one & two tube recievers back then, mainly the regenerative type however most of 
my tube building was transmitters & RF amplifers. Didn't think about running QRP 
(low power) back then.....




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From: Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Fri, March 11, 2011 12:28:52 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] RCA dealers' phono?

From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <rbratcherjr at yahoo.com>
> One or two 50C5's in that transmitter? I built a cw transmitter out of a 
> pair of
50C5's once, both used as a single oscillator made from two tubes. Later I
built a 6AG7 oscillator driving a pair of 50C5's & got a few watts out of it 
on
80, 40 & 20 meters. Modified still later to the 807 then the 6146b for 
higher power. I got about 60 watts out of a pair of 807's.

Thinking back, it was one! Just something I threw together for fun
back when I was K9JOO...!

Steven C. Barr