04-03-14 16:29 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Resurrected   
      
    RW> @MSGID: <533E8C02.292.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    RW> Greetings Ed!   
   Howdy Brer Roy!   
   -snip-   
    RW>> The oldest radio I have is a Hallicrafters 'World Wide'   
    RW>> receiver, that has AM on it, but no BFO to enable hearing SSB.   
    RW>> It was portable running on a 6 volt battery, but hasn't been   
    RW>> mobile since I've owned it.   
      
    EV> A Hallicrafters SX-42 with freq. coverage 540Kc/s to 108Mc/s AM, CW   
    EV> and FM is my oldest piece of gear.   
      
    RW> 1940s...My 'World Wide' is from that era.   
      
   Your radio might have been made and sold B4 mine was.   
      
   Does the Hallicrafters World Wide just use one 6V battery, not seperate   
   batteries for Filament and B+ like some I've seen long ago?   
      
   My older brother had a AM portable that used a 67.5V B battery that was   
   about the same size if two 9V batteries were put one on top another.   
   His radio may have had a seperate A battery for the filaments, I can't   
   remember much about it because I was only 9 or 10 years old when he got   
   it.   
      
   A couple of years later when a friend showed me his Hallicrafter S-38C   
   and I got interested in Shortwave listening, my uncle said something   
   my new interest to a neighbor down the street, and the neighbor gave me   
   a Midwest Shortwave Radio he had.   
      
   The Filter Choke for that radio was on the back of a big speaker that   
   had a wire which plugged into the back of the radio.   
      
   I opened it and looked inside the chassis to see how it was made.   
   There was some parts that had a wire on each end but the middle was   
   flexible, so I asked what they were and was told they were Resistors.   
   I never have seen those kind of Resistors in any other circuit.   
   -snip-   
    EV> I earned the Novice License 3 months before the FCC opened the CB   
    EV> Service to U.S. Citizens. I was 16 years old and just bought my   
    EV> Hallicrafters S-38E the same day my Novice ticket arrived in the   
    EV> mail.   
      
    RW> So, you're not so old afterall. I was going on 19 when the FCC   
    RW> opened up 11mtrs to CB radio. One of the first 5 in town to   
    RW> have a CB license.   
      
   I'm 72, so you're 75?   
      
    EV> I saved up for a Heathkit DX-40 instead of a CW Only DX-20 and   
    EV> ordered my first TX in September '58 the same month the 11 Meter   
    EV> Amateur Radio Band was given to the Citizens Band Service. I wanted   
    EV> the more costly DX-40 because it had a Carrier Controlled Modulator   
    EV> circuit, where as the DX-20 didn't have it built in, but could be   
    EV> modified for AM with a simple circuit add on. -snip-   
      
    RW> Back then we were operating Heathkit 'lunchboxes' on 11mtr.   
    RW> They had a tuneable front end, but a xtal controlled xmiter.   
    RW> And, you could only have one xtal in the box at a time. And AM   
    RW> operation only.   
      
   I built a lunchbox Sixer and asked a friend to build a one transistor   
   oscillator for me so I could put a Bud Box on the side of the Sixer   
   and use a Mallory Rotary Switch to select from several Crystal Sockets   
   on the box what frequency I want to transmit at.   
      
   He built the oscillator on a one inch piece of perfboard and put it in   
   one half of a Clear Plastic Dome-Shaped container that originally came   
   from a coin operated machine that kids used to put a Dime in at the   
   grocery store, to get a knick-knack inside of the plastic container.   
      
   He filled the container with Clear Epoxy, and had 4 wires sticking out   
   of it, 2 wires I connected to a 9V battery in series with a pushbutton   
   switch on top of the Bud Box, the other two wires were connected to the   
   Mallory Switch to select several Crystal Sockets.   
      
   When I wanted to go from 50.7 Mc/s to 50.4 Mc/s, I turned the Rotary   
   Switch, pressed the pushbutton switch to turn the oscillator on, and   
   tuned the Sixers Regenerative Receiver Tuning knob to the oscillators   
   noise. It Worked!   
   -snip-   
    RW>> Since we're approaching April 1, here's a link to check out   
    RW>> from last year's April 1.   
      
    RW>> http://radioartisan.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/genachowski.jpg   
      
    EV> I saw the .JPG, is the photo of You?   
      
    RW> LOL! No...   
      
    EV> Looking at the photo I couldn't figure out what it had to do with   
    EV> April Fools Day, or with Psalms 14:1 or Psalms 53:1 ?   
      
    RW> The caption reads: In a shocking and unexpected move, the FCC   
    RW> today transferred all amateur radio licensing responsibility to   
    RW> QRZ.com, releasing Report and Order 2013-699.  Outgoing   
    RW> Chairman Julius Genchowski read a statement before Congress   
    RW> noting (cut). cApril 1, 2013...   
      
   I didn't see any caption, just the photo of someone.   
   But that may be caused by my use of NoScript with the Firefox browser   
   and I hadn't Allowed a part of the web page to be displayed that would   
   show me the Caption.   
   -snip-   
    EV>> Some local Ham Radio Clubs have web pages, but I rarely check them   
    q EV>> out. BBS messages and QRZ are were I learn what's happening on the   
    EV>> Bands.   
      
    EV> Maybe you can find out about the weekly ARN broadcast if you took a   
    EV> look at a Amateur Radio Club's web pages to see if it tells you the   
    EV> Time and Freq. the ARNewsline is heard.   
    EV> -snip-   
      
    RW> I read the release in text mode in HAM, where I post it from an   
    RW> email I receive from them.   
      
   I thought you were talking about wondering if a ARN recording was   
   played by some local Amateur Operator or Club over the air each week,   
   so You could listen to it too.   
      
   There I go thinking again........   
      
   ... My work is so secret even I don't know what I'm doing!   
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