04-06-14 14:34 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Resurrected   
      
    RW> @MSGID: <5341D0BC.295.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    RW> Greetings Ed!   
      
    RW>  Brer Ed Vance wrote to Brer Roy Witt about Re: Resurrected:   
   Hi Brer Roy,   
   -snip-   
    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?   
      
    RW> I don't remember. It has space enough for both, but I know I   
    RW> removed those when I got it since I didn't want to clean up a   
    RW> leaking battery mess later. It also has an AC pwr supply, so   
    RW> that's the only use it has seen.   
      
   A Search I made for Hallicrafters Worldwide showed me your Worldwide   
   at www.radiomuseum.org in Switzerland, that is a real nice site.   
      
   I learned the Hallicrafters Worldwide could use a 9V and a 90V battery   
   if it wasn't plugged into 120VAC.   
      
   I also Searched there to take a look at the Midwest receiver a neighbor   
   gave me, I'm fairly sure that the photo I saw was a photo of THE radio   
   that was the first one I had to listen to Shortwave Broadcast stations   
   as a SWL.   
   -snip-   
    RW> This one has a 'thing-a-ma-jig' in the back cover that plugs   
    RW> into something, I don't recall where anymore and it is wired   
    RW> with twin lead, so I imagine it is an internal antenna. It also   
    RW> has a telescoping antenna and the face of it isn't like any   
    RW> Hallicrafters that I rememeber. Its face is flat with 8 bands   
    RW> tuned the full width of the radio, switchable thru the tuner   
    RW> knob on the left and volume control on the right. The flip up   
    RW> top/face-cover has a world map on it and it gives you an idea   
    RW> of what was/is tunable in a 24hr format. It is on now, but it   
    RW> will fade and drift after an hour or so.   
      
   While looking at the two pages for the Worldwide on radiomuseum,   
   I used CTRL and the Scroll Wheel on the mouse to look at the space the   
   twin-lead wire comes from and I would 'THINK' it goes to a 300 Ohm   
   Folded Dipole antenna in the space at the bottom of the cabinet.   
      
   The other photo shows that wire points towards the speaker, so I figure   
   the wire from the RF section has lost the Folded Dipole that it once   
   had.   
      
   A UHF TV Station on Channel 32 came on the air, and I made a Folded   
   Dipole antenna out of some 300 Ohm Twin-Lead such as what is in the   
   back of your Hallicrafter Worldwide RX.   
      
   The Tower was 3 1/2 Miles from our house so I calculated the length of   
   the antenna was 19 Centimeters, so I cut off enough Twin-Lead so I   
   could solder the two leads on each end to each other and cut one wire   
   in the center of the antenna to connected some 300 Ohm wire to it,   
   the other end went to a UHF TV Convertor we got.   
      
   A neighbor across the street heard about the TV Channel 32 antenna that   
   I made and asked me to make one for them too, I had GOBS of wire so I   
   made one for them.   
      
    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.   
      
   Thank You! Roy, that made my day!,   
   My younger brother says I'm older than dirt.   
      
    EV> I'm 72, so you're 75?   
      
    RW> 73.   
      
   As Gabby Hayes would say, I'm a Young Whipper-Snapper.     
   -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.   
      
    RW> That was illegal for a CBer to do, but we did the same thing.   
    RW> It sure beat looking through a pile of xtals and wasting time   
    RW> making the change.   
      
   Plus the switch box kept you from opening the case to change a Xtal.   
   -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   
   -snip-   
    EV> I didn't see any caption, just the photo of someone.   
      
    RW> You have to learn how to back up on a website. If you delete   
    RW> the link to the picture and just leave site.com and click your   
    RW> browser's 'go there' command, you can see the entire page where   
    RW> that photo came from. Scroll down a ways and you see the photo   
    RW> and why it is linked to April 1, aka April Fools day.   
      
   Sometimes I have done that to see what was on a Page Up from the page I   
   was looking at when there wasn't something to click on to get to a Home   
   Page from there.   
      
   I Remember one web site I did that at, that showed me a picture of a   
   Very Angry Face, along with some text saying I didn't belong there.   
   It made my eyebrows raise up when I saw that!!!!!!   
      
   ... And on the 8th day God said, "OK Murphy, you take over"   
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