06-14-15 09:30 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: New Ham   
      
    HG> @MSGID: <557EAB82.848.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    HG> In a message dated 06-12-15, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
    HG> Hi Ed,   
   Howdy! Holger,   
      
    HG> Yeah, those were the times when we still built our own gear   
    HG> instead of as now being appliance operators, hi.   
      
    EV> I built my DX-40 kit over 50 years ago.   
   -snip-   
    HG> My first build however was a 6F6+807 xtal controlled   
    HG> transmitter built on a discarded BC-radio chassis. The next one   
    HG> was a fourteen tube double conversion ham-band receiver.   
      
   I have built accessories for my shack from construction articles I've   
   read in magazines but haven't even built a one tube Transmitter from   
   scratch.   
      
   When I was a Novice, one of my Ham friends in school told me he had   
   worked someone on CW who lived in my part of town, and that the guy was   
   using a 6L6 Transmitter so I visited the fellow to see the TX he built.   
      
   I put together a Heathkit FM Tuner to use with the Heath AA-32 Stereo   
   Amplifier for my Hi-Fi setup.   
   That's as close as I've gotten in receiver building.   
      
   But I have tinkered with the insides of my Hallicrafters SX-42 a little   
   bit by looking at the schematic and reading about how to service it.   
      
   The only 'fix' I done for my TS-520S is to install a CW filter in it.   
      
   I'm not completely ignorant, some parts are missing.   
      
   ... "Falling Off a Cliff" - by Eileen Dover   
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