Greetings Ed!   
      
    Brer Ed Vance wrote to Brer Roy Witt about Re: Resurrected:   
      
    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.   
      
    EV> Your radio might have been made and sold B4 mine was.   
      
   Could be.   
      
    EV> Does the Hallicrafters World Wide just use one 6V battery, not   
    EV> seperate batteries for Filament and B+ like some I've seen long ago?   
      
   I don't remember. It has space enough for both, but I know I removed those   
   when I got it since I didn't want to clean up a leaking battery mess   
   later. It also has an AC pwr supply, so that's the only use it has seen.   
      
    EV> My older brother had a AM portable that used a 67.5V B battery that   
    EV> was about the same size if two 9V batteries were put one on top   
    EV> another. His radio may have had a seperate A battery for the   
    EV> filaments, I can't remember much about it because I was only 9 or 10   
    EV> years old when he got it.   
      
    EV> A couple of years later when a friend showed me his Hallicrafter   
    EV> S-38C and I got interested in Shortwave listening, my uncle said   
    EV> something my new interest to a neighbor down the street, and the   
    EV> neighbor gave me a Midwest Shortwave Radio he had.   
      
    EV> The Filter Choke for that radio was on the back of a big speaker that   
    EV> had a wire which plugged into the back of the radio.   
      
    EV> I opened it and looked inside the chassis to see how it was made.   
    EV> There was some parts that had a wire on each end but the middle was   
    EV> flexible, so I asked what they were and was told they were Resistors.   
    EV> I never have seen those kind of Resistors in any other circuit.   
    EV> -snip-   
      
   This one has a 'thing-a-ma-jig' in the back cover that plugs into   
   something, I don't recall where anymore and it is wired with twin lead, so   
   I imagine it is an internal antenna. It also has a telescoping antenna and   
   the face of it isn't like any Hallicrafters that I rememeber. Its face is   
   flat with 8 bands tuned the full width of the radio, switchable thru the   
   tuner knob on the left and volume control on the right. The flip up   
   top/face-cover has a world map on it and it gives you an idea of what   
   was/is tunable in a 24hr format. It is on now, but it will fade and drift   
   after an hour or so.   
      
    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.   
      
    EV> I'm 72, so you're 75?   
      
   73.   
      
    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.   
      
    EV> I built a lunchbox Sixer and asked a friend to build a one transistor   
    EV> oscillator for me so I could put a Bud Box on the side of the Sixer   
    EV> and use a Mallory Rotary Switch to select from several Crystal   
    EV> Sockets on the box what frequency I want to transmit at.   
      
   That was illegal for a CBer to do, but we did the same thing. It sure beat   
   looking through a pile of xtals and wasting time making the change.   
      
    EV> He built the oscillator on a one inch piece of perfboard and put it   
    EV> in one half of a Clear Plastic Dome-Shaped container that originally   
    EV> came from a coin operated machine that kids used to put a Dime in at   
    EV> the grocery store, to get a knick-knack inside of the plastic   
    EV> container.   
      
    EV> He filled the container with Clear Epoxy, and had 4 wires sticking   
    EV> out of it, 2 wires I connected to a 9V battery in series with a   
    EV> pushbutton switch on top of the Bud Box, the other two wires were   
    EV> connected to the Mallory Switch to select several Crystal Sockets.   
      
    EV> When I wanted to go from 50.7 Mc/s to 50.4 Mc/s, I turned the Rotary   
    EV> Switch, pressed the pushbutton switch to turn the oscillator on, and   
    EV> tuned the Sixers Regenerative Receiver Tuning knob to the oscillators   
    EV> noise. It Worked!   
    EV> -snip-   
      
   Cool. My novice licensed friend knew how all that worked, built it so all   
   I needed to do was learn how to use it.   
      
    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...   
      
    EV> I didn't see any caption, just the photo of someone.   
      
   You have to learn how to back up on a website. If you delete the link to   
   the picture and just leave site.com and click your browser's 'go there'   
   command, you can see the entire page where that photo came from. Scroll   
   down a ways and you see the photo and why it is linked to April 1, aka   
   April Fools day.   
      
    EV> But that may be caused by my use of NoScript with the Firefox browser   
    EV> and I hadn't Allowed a part of the web page to be displayed that   
    EV> 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   
    q EV>>> the   
    EV>>> Bands.   
      
   c 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.   
      
    EV> I thought you were talking about wondering if a ARN recording was   
    EV> played by some local Amateur Operator or Club over the air each week,   
    EV> so You could listen to it too.   
      
   I listen to a repeater that holds a session they hold for members. They   
   haven't done much of anything, just talk about old-timer stuff.   
      
    EV> There I go thinking again........   
      
   Don't ever stop. The alternative isn't adapted to thinking yet.   
      
      
            R\%/itt - K5RXT   
      
    On Ward's exalted throne, he is still seated on nothing but his big arse.   
      
      
      
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