[NCDXA] [PVRC] Fwd: Top 10 Early 60's Ham Transceivers

[Phillip Barsky]

Tom,  Thanks for sharing your story.  Pretty first class club for a high
school.  I was lucky to have a knight transmitter and (don't recall)
receiver at A Lincoln HS in Brooklyn.

I had a Swan 350C with me in Korea during 69-70 as HL9UZ. Had 2El, 3 Band
Mosley Quad on top of a 50 f5 telephone pole. Installation cost me 1 large
bottle of booze to crane operator and 1 pizza and beer fest for my
communication platoon who assisted in getting the antenna installed. Yes it
drifted for the first 1/2 hour and then just slightly after that- worked a
lot of split with one vfo ( tougher than SO2R) on CW. Pretty easy to get
back to Xmit freq- it was always set a=on a large marker on dial.

At Ft Belvoir during short stint 69-69 operated the MARS station on amateur
bands- S line, 30S1 and Hygain Tribander up 70 feet.  Sweet rig to operate-
mostly at lunchtime breaks).

Hope others chime in with their stories of these w=storied rigs.

73   Stay Well Stay Safe see everyone on the NAQP

Phil K3EW

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On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:25 AM Thomas Valenti <tomk3aj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, Phil..
>
> You know you are getting old when you enjoy this kind of nostalgia.
>
> In the fall of 1967 I transferred from public schools to Calvert Hall
> College High School in Towson, MD - a Christian Brother's school. There I
> met my still friend and partner in operating crime Bob Venanzi, ND3D. I
> already had my general ticket, so I was allowed to use the Hallicrafters
> SR-150 along with a Johnson Thunderbolt amp attached to a three-element
> tribander. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. And oh, the glow of the
> mercury vapor rectifiers in the Thunderbolt. It was magic not
> repeated until the first time I keyed a transmitter at W3LPL. BTW, I still
> have a picture of Brother Gerald in my shack.
>
> A year later I toiled for many months slinging hamburger's at Gino's to
> come up with the money ($325, I think) to buy a used Swan 350. Actually, I
> didn't sling that many burgers, because I always got stuck with the job
> everyone hated - working the register and dealing with customers.
> Apparently, our managers figured out that I was one of the very few kids
> who would not steal money from the register (very easy to do in those
> days). 40% of what was then the legal limit into a low random wire fed with
> a L-tuner. Life was good.
>
> Later, at Calvert Hall Brother Gerald sold the SR-150 and we got an NCX-5