I just finished watching watching a program on TV about the work done to help the allied prisoners of war in Stalag Luft 3. This is the camp that the movie...
Hello all, Looking out the window at the snow fluttering down, its clear to me that the Maine winter is about to set in. In the meantime, I'm still seeking a...
Hello fellow chirpers... Hope all you chirpers and buzzers are ready for a couple of weekends of fun. I have tested my 'new' '29 Hartley for the last six...
Thank you very much for the advice and suggestions on what what causing the 2nd signal on my 1929 style Colpitts transmitter. The receiver image/overload...
I have posted the auction rules for the 2010 Charlotte Conference auctions on the conference web page. If you plan to attend and bid on items from the Ernie...
I am seeing an odd signal on my 80m/40m Colpitts oscillator. It runs a pair of 10's in push pull. On 40m there are two resonances in the tank as I set...
Hello everyone. I'm doing some reading and researching, in preparation for trying to build a regen receiver, likely something along the line of the Twinplex,...
Fellow AWA Members I had been questioned recently about Information regarding The 2009 Board Meeting of The AWA. A digest of the Board Meeting Minutes and...
I was cleaning out, sorting and inventorying tubes for the first time in years and made several nice discoveries like a large quantity of 2A3's, 5Z3's, etc. to...
The AWA Board of Directors has approved a petition to open the AWA contests and QSO Parties to all hams, members and non-members.  I and others have been...
You guys may remember a while back I posted a link to one of my web pages about an NOS AN/APS-19 X-Band Airborne radar I found. Well I got a really interesting...
Does anyone know what model this De Forest-Crosley is. Made in Cananda.. 8 Tubes. http://home.usit.net/~gcromer/De%20Forest%20Crosley%20a%20(Small).jpg ...
Check out the beautiful vintage construction job on this 500KHz MOPA transmitter currently on the air as WD2XSH/10. Thanks to Jay W1VD for the link. ...
Merrill, FYI - In 1986 my house was broken into. Hundreds of collectible radios & TV's.... What the made off with were things that they could fence like...
I have been approached by "The History Channel" to participate in a program about people with unusual hobbies. I haven't been able to decide whether to do it...
Half the fun of having a collection like Radio Heaven is being able to show it off, especially to people that can really appreciate it. I wish I had done a...
All: Check out the link below. I think that there is some good info that everyone can use! >>> I was on the 80 M AWA (on 3.83750 MHz.) net today. What a...
I got a question from a friend that's not on this list, what was the earliest use of printed circuit boards by the military? I seem to remember something about...
True - but those new riceboxes have a lot of features and work very well. I sent a radio off to Icom years ago and didn't know it was under warranty - they...
Good Day All, Alright, alright, I know: there is NO antique wireless content in this message, per se...but per chance, are there any ICOM 751's - 751A's out...
Hi - I wonder if anyone can advise me on the exact Texas Instruments numbers of the transistors used in the TR-1G transistor radio of 1955. As you know, this...
Douglas mentions a technical article in Radio Review, May 1925 pgs. 14-15, 33 -- I don't have that in my little library. This is a real odd duck. A combo of...
