RW>Hi Ed,   
   Hi again Richard,   
      
   RW>On Wed 2012-Apr-18 17:01, Ed Vance (1:2320/105.1) wrote to RICHARD WEBB:   
      
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   RW>RW>I had a Hamarlund, but it was at my parents' house, I was   
      
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   RW>The 180 my uncle gave me.  I've got a 129 over here on the   
   RW>side bench right now.   
      
   I looked in my catalogs and couldn't find the HQ-129X, so I went on the   
   net and did a search.   
      
   One link said it was made in 1945, and it IS a nice looking RX, I got my   
   Novice ticket in 1958 so that is why I'm not familiar with the 129X.   
      
   My beginning as a SWL was in the 1950's when a person on the next block   
   had heard that I was interested in Shortwave Radio and gave me a Midwest   
   radio with the instruction book, they were made in Cincinnati, Ohio.   
      
   On the back of the Speaker was a Filter Choke for the Power Supply,   
   instead of a Permanent Magnet.   
      
   Some of the Resistors in it were very long and had metal end on them.   
      
   RW>EV> At another Navy Ham Shack they had a National NC-303(?) receiver and   
   RW>EV> a T-350-XM AM transmitter (700 Watts I think).   
      
   RW>I think school for the blind had teh National, 303 might or   
   RW>might not be right nomenclature.  They had ti coupled with   
   RW>the novice station, nice receiver.  The big "kids" and   
   RW>adults general and up got to use the Collins rig .   
      
   When I was looking through my 'stuff' I saw both the NC-303 and the   
   NC-300 - the K6NCJ Navy Ham Shack had the NC-300 reciever.   
      
      
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