In a message on Friday 09-15-16 Tony Langdon said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   GE Tony,   
      
    HG> Actually, I didn't have he time either, but I was so bitten by the bug,   
      
   TL> I did too, but didn't have the money or facilities (PCB   
   TL> manufacturing) to build most things.   
      
   When I built my first gear (1952), nobody new anything about PCB's.   
      
   My first build was a 14-tube double conversion receiver for the Ham   
   bands. Then a 50 Wo rack mounted CW/AM transmitter.   
      
   1955 I built my first SSB exciter, that was a copy of the Central   
   Electronics 20A, and then a SB-Slicer for the receiver. Then followed a   
   new transmitter rack that contained an AM modulator that never was   
   completed, a class AB1 150 Wo PA, and a hefty power supply.   
      
   1957 I completed a luggable SSB transmitter, and a receiver, both based   
   on US surplus ARC transmitters/receivers, intended for a DXpedition..   
      
   That year I made made the DXpedition to OH0, as OH2OJ/OH0, with my XYL,   
   OH2QJ/OH0. The Aland Islands then became our new home.   
      
   After that I've built a lot of small appliances, and Heathkit gear, both   
   for myself, as well as to customers that didn't think they were capable.   
      
   Printed circuit boards didn't become a part of my life, until sometime   
   in the late 1960's when I had become active on VHF/UHF.   
      
      
   73 es GN de OH0NC,   
      
   Holger   
      
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