Robert Downs WA5CAB deals in military connectors. His email is on qrz.com. If you care to kluge in a connector until the right ones arrive, an old octal tube...
We had a great AWA Sunday noon 40 meter SSB net today. WA2GTT Alan was net control. Check-ins were; W2DGB Bill NE1S Larry W2IOJ Jim W4ZO Ralph KC4YOY Ron W2UJR...
Thanks, Steve. That is a good hint, and I will give it a try today. I do have the female connectors, from old tube sockets. I do have everything for the...
Bill W2DGB
w2dgb@...
Apr 2, 2007 11:55 am
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Hello, Would enjoy hearing the signal from my OT rig. Anyone there who can record off-air and e-mail or send me a CD of that recording? The sked would be on 80...
Kenny Mullis - contact me please. The e-mail address in the club database is out of date. The wire sample you gave me looks like it will be ideal to restore...
How bout this I can record a wave file that would record the entire band,, well up to 190 Khz,, if you install Winrad you can play that file. Then you would...
riese-k3djc@...
Apr 7, 2007 1:05 am
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Folks, I'm told that there is an article by Lincoln Walsh in one of the 1940 Proceedings of the IRE on the subject of the design of amplifiers used at the...
I am working on restoring a British McMichael model 151 radio, circa 1952 (it came with its original warranty sheet, carefully preserved!) Strange thing: it...
Folks, If you have the space for a rare bird, there is a 1968 Sylvania console color TV in Sanford, NC What makes this worthy of saving? This deluxe TV has a...
In case you're interested, 50,000 watt, WBT 1110 AM is going to have a special show starting at 18:05 today. They're 85 years old. Sorry I didn't give more...
Got a call from this guy.... not a radio collector.... His dad ran a repair shop at one time... Riders Manuals – missing one(don't know which one), some...
Ron, Thanks for the heads up. I enjoyed listening in. I was hoping to hear that WBT was going to make a CD of the show available with the proceeds to a...
Richard & Donna Wayne
rwayne@...
Apr 11, 2007 2:48 am
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Bob, Pse bear with me. Will get back to you on this...Louis...
Folks, In reading the March 6, 1942 issue of The Charlotte News there is a headline "FBI Searches Homes Of All Enemy Aliens" In NC there were some 500...
I worked on a Philco console a year ago that had been "modified" because the owner was of Italian origin and therefor was a "threat". The person doing the...
I don't know of any radios in a collection today. My father was in the radio & TV repair business from 1927 to 1988. During the war there were a few occasions...
Mark Hilliard
mercury@...
Apr 13, 2007 12:41 pm
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Robert....you heard correctly. I was a service technician during that time and we removed the coils for short wave reception in those big consoles. The radios...
Norm Gertz
k1aa@...
Apr 13, 2007 1:58 pm
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Hello Robert: As a wee bit of a lad I remember frequent visits to my grandparents home in Corry, PA. Grandpa had a Montgomery-Ward console next to his...
Edward Gable
egable@...
Apr 13, 2007 2:38 pm
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This is a perennial topic in the antique-radio hobby. Here's the "official word" on how the, er, neutering of aliens' SW sets took place, from the "New Jersey...
Ludwell Sibley
tubelore@...
Apr 13, 2007 5:55 pm
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This whole subject sounds like a case of hunting elephants with a pea shooter. My father was a German immigrant to the USA in 1925 and became a naturalized...
In a bit over fifty years of collecting and restoring old radios, I've encountered only one set modified in the manner you describe. Perhaps ten or twelve...
I am remembering that many of the all wave radio owners were unaware of the short wave aspects as they never used those bands. It was a common thing for those...
Norm Gertz
k1aa@...
Apr 14, 2007 3:53 pm
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Hello again, this is my semi regular wanted posting for a much needed knob. Here's a link to one of my web pages with photos and details about the knob in...
We had another great Sunday noon AWA net on 40 meters. Alan WA2GTT was net control. Check-ins were, K2UPI, W1UJR, W1ZB and KC4YOY. If you can, I'd like to...
Sorry, but unable to receive any stations at noon today. Two weeks in a row. Wonder what is going on???? In contrast, the 4 PM AM net was outstanding. 73,...
Bill W2DGB
w2dgb@...
Apr 15, 2007 9:54 pm
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Thanks to all that responded to my query on alien radios of WW-II Good stories and it would be nice to make up a little article..... However no one has come...
... Hay, it's radio, it's magic... I tried to listen to the AM net, couldn't hear a thing, there was some noise that went from 3835.5 - 3839. I could hear a...
I acquired a new radio today. It looks like a standard TRF type in a metal cabinet with a lift off top. Similar to the Atwater Kent types except this set has...
