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

[donovanf at erols.com]

And you probably still own all of those radios, right? :) 


I've been slowly reacquiring a few radios from my early days as 
a ham, either radios I once owned or that I would have liked to have 
owned. So far: 


HQ-129X 
SX-100 
NC-303 
75A-4 


Ameco AC-1 
Heathkit AT-1 and VF-1 
Heathkit DX-20 
Viking Valiant 


A few ARC-5 transmitters and receivers. 


And I owned a few radios I disliked so much I'll never reacquire them: 


Hallicrafters S38-D 
Harvey-Wells TBS-50C and VFO 



73 
Frank 
W3LPL 

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From: "Richard Boyd via NCDXA" <ncdxa at ncdxa.org> 
To: "Thomas Valenti" <tomk3aj at gmail.com> 
Cc: "PVRC Digest Submissions" <pvrc at mailman.qth.net>, "NCDXA" <ncdxa at ncdxa.org> 
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2020 7:20:55 PM 
Subject: Re: [NCDXA] [PVRC] Fwd: Top 10 Early 60's Ham Transceivers 

>From 1965 (I know, a relative newcomer) -- S-120 general coverage 
Hallicrafters (Christmas present, I was 12), I started copying Morse on the 
radio -- Johnson Viking Adventurer 50W tx kit for my birthday in February, 
$55 retail at the Uncle George's Radio Hamshack (store) in Wheaton, 
Maryland, passed Novice, got on the air. Next Christmas a real ham bands 
only rx, much better, Hallicrafters SX-101A. Eventual upgrade to a Johnson 
Viking Challenger, 75 watts, Eico external VFO, eventually a Heathkit 
Apache tx, struggled with the SB-10 sideband adapter, etc.... college, 
Collins KWS-1 (I think it was), 75A-4 rx, Gonset amplifier. In my 20s, 
first new radios, Drake C Line with L4B amp, 100' Rohn 25 tower with a 
TH6... 

- KE3Q 



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On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:26 AM Thomas Valenti via PVRC < 
pvrc at mailman.qth.net> 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 
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