Showing posts with label Old radio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Old radio. Show all posts
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Mike WU2D Does a CCC Camp POTA with 1930's Gear

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FB Mike.  CW without sidetone is not for the faint of heart.   Walter KA4KXX saw Mike on the Reverse Beacon Network.  Mike's QSO with KN...
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Friday, September 6, 2024

Ham Radio in the 1970s (and earlier, with some cool Jazz). What favorite rigs do you see?

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Rogier PA1ZZ sent me this today.  I think I may have seen pieces of it before, but this restoration  is really nice.  But ham radio seems to...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Ham Radio Workbench: Stuffing Digital Stuff Into Poor Old Boatanchors

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Let me start by saying that I LIKE Ham Radio Workbench.  But I found a lot in the current edition that I disagreed with.  The whole panel se...
Monday, May 13, 2024

Ragnar LA1UH's Wonderful Museums in Norway

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Here are two more great museum visits by Helge LA6NCA.  In these two he visits Ragnar LA1UH.   Ragnar has a lot of maritime experienc...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

Jens OZ1GEO's AMAZING Radio Museum

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Brace yourselves.  This is just too much, too much radio history, too much cool stuff.  We are into ham radio sensory overload territory h...
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Thursday, January 18, 2024

Some Great Reading Material -- Links to Radio Publications

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  https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Home-DX.htm My fellow Hambassador Dave WA1LBP sent this to me today (from Taiwan, I think).  Lots of gre...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

The Grid Leak Detector -- Follow-up from Yesterday's Post on the Whole Earth Catalog's "Hippy" One Tube Receiver

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Click on image for a better view When I first looked at it in the Whole Earth catalog circuit, I thought it was a regen.  But a commenter c...
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Friday, October 27, 2023

A NETFLIX Series with Boatanchors and Direction-Finding -- All the Light We Cannot See

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Looks good.  November 2, 2023. 
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Sunday, October 15, 2023

Spy Rigs, Para Sets, Bugs, and Enigma Machines -- Dr. Tom Perera W1TP (video)

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This is a really amazing presentation by Tom Perera W1TP to the Fairlawn (NJ) Amateur Radio Club.  There is so much great info in this prese...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

A Look at Old Radios in Australia (video)

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I thought you guys would like Peter Parker's latest video.  And in it, Dean KK4DAS might see a clue or two for his Halli restoration/re...
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Saturday, August 19, 2023

Valveman -- The Story of Gerald Wells

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Don't be deterred by the annoying test patterns at the start of this video.  Just skip past them.  The rest of the video is quite good. ...
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Tuesday, July 4, 2023

A Very Early Radio-Controlled Device -- Using Spark and a Coherer, in Spain

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Click on the picture for a better view -- check out the coherer and the tapper  Hack-A-Day has an interesting story about Leonardo Torres Qu...
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Monday, May 1, 2023

Apex Surplus in Los Angeles

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The Polaroid camera for the Tek 'scope was pretty cool.  And the comments about the Simpson 260 made me feel good about finding one at a...
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Friday, April 28, 2023

Who is the Man in the Portrait in Artie Moore's Shack?

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  Who is this person?   He is in a prominent position in Artie Moore's very early radio shack.  Artie was obviously big on labeling thin...
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Monday, April 24, 2023

Four Old BBC Shows on Radio: Hams, Physics, and Antique Wireless

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The first one, about ham operators in general, is pretty depressing. Then it goes downhill as they shift to those who are listening to baby ...
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Thursday, February 23, 2023

Early (1912?) Ham Station

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  Perhaps a bit overdressed by today's standards, but he's got a familiar look on his face.  Confidence and pride in his rig, and a ...
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Sunday, February 12, 2023

Mr. Carlson Replaces Old Capacitors -- Bathtub Capacitors

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I recently posted a video from CuriousMarc about whether or not to replace electrolytic capacitors in old pieces of gear.  This is a hot to...
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Saturday, February 4, 2023

To Re-Cap or Not to Re-Cap -- Curious Marc on the Electrolytic Controversy in Ham Radio

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A while back I got some fairly acerbic feedback when I DARED to suggest that perhaps it would be a good idea to replace the old electrolytic...
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Hammarlund HQ-100 Misidentified in 1963 FCC Film

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Oh the indignity!  It appears at 7 minutes 16 seconds in this FCC film.  It is clearly an HQ-100, but the FCC subtitles identify it at an HQ...
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Saturday, January 28, 2023

Hugo Gernsback -- Was he Like Wayne Green?

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"The Electrical Experimenter" sent to me by Nick M0NTV reminded me of Hugo Gernsback.  Many of the radio books I have on my shelf ...
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