<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>And you probably still own all of those radios, right? :)<div><br></div><div>I've been slowly reacquiring a few radios from my early days as</div><div>a ham, either radios I once owned or that I would have liked to have</div><div>owned. So far:</div><div><br></div><div>HQ-129X</div><div>SX-100</div><div>NC-303</div><div>75A-4</div><div><br></div><div>Ameco AC-1</div><div>Heathkit AT-1 and VF-1</div><div>Heathkit DX-20</div><div>Viking Valiant</div><div><br></div><div>A few ARC-5 transmitters and receivers.</div><div><br></div><div>And I owned a few radios I disliked so much I'll never reacquire them:</div><div><br></div><div>Hallicrafters S38-D</div><div>Harvey-Wells TBS-50C and VFO</div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">73</span></div><div>Frank</div><div>W3LPL<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Richard Boyd via NCDXA" <ncdxa@ncdxa.org><br><b>To: </b>"Thomas Valenti" <tomk3aj@gmail.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"PVRC Digest Submissions" <pvrc@mailman.qth.net>, "NCDXA" <ncdxa@ncdxa.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, July 30, 2020 7:20:55 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [NCDXA] [PVRC] Fwd: Top 10 Early 60's Ham Transceivers<br><br>From 1965 (I know, a relative newcomer) -- S-120 general coverage<br>Hallicrafters (Christmas present, I was 12), I started copying Morse on the<br>radio -- Johnson Viking Adventurer 50W tx kit for my birthday in February,<br>$55 retail at the Uncle George's Radio Hamshack (store) in Wheaton,<br>Maryland, passed Novice, got on the air. Next Christmas a real ham bands<br>only rx, much better, Hallicrafters SX-101A. Eventual upgrade to a Johnson<br>Viking Challenger, 75 watts, Eico external VFO, eventually a Heathkit<br>Apache tx, struggled with the SB-10 sideband adapter, etc.... college,<br>Collins KWS-1 (I think it was), 75A-4 rx, Gonset amplifier. In my 20s,<br>first new radios, Drake C Line with L4B amp, 100' Rohn 25 tower with a<br>TH6...<br><br>- KE3Q<br><br><br><br>-- <br>Rich Boyd<br>301-430-5296 regular phone<br>301-980-7424 cellular<br><br>BACKUP CELLULAR NUMBER (My wife's cellular but please do call it when you<br>need to reach me and can't reach me on the other numbers): 301-830-0471.<br><br>email: RichardLBoyd@gmail.com (don't forget the L middle initial in my<br>name!)<br><br>direct link to me to send large files:<br>https://www.hightail.com/u/RichardBoyd (no middle initial here.)<br><br>Thanks!<br><br><br><br><br><http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail><br>Virus-free.<br>www.avg.com<br><http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail><br><#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2><br><br>On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:26 AM Thomas Valenti via PVRC <<br>pvrc@mailman.qth.net> wrote:<br><br>> Thank you, Phil..<br>><br>> You know you are getting old when you enjoy this kind of nostalgia.<br>><br>> In the fall of 1967 I transferred from public schools to Calvert Hall<br>> College High School in Towson, MD - a Christian Brother's school. There I<br>> met my still friend and partner in operating crime Bob Venanzi, ND3D. I<br>> already had my general ticket, so I was allowed to use the Hallicrafters<br>> SR-150 along with a Johnson Thunderbolt amp attached to a three-element<br>> tribander. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. And oh, the glow of the<br>> mercury vapor rectifiers in the Thunderbolt. It was magic not<br>> repeated until the first time I keyed a transmitter at W3LPL. BTW, I still<br>> have a picture of Brother Gerald in my shack.<br>><br>> A year later I toiled for many months slinging hamburger's at Gino's to<br>> come up with the money ($325, I think) to buy a used Swan 350. Actually, I<br>> didn't sling that many burgers, because I always got stuck with the job<br>> everyone hated - working the register and dealing with customers.<br>> Apparently, our managers figured out that I was one of the very few kids<br>> who would not steal money from the register (very easy to do in those<br>> days). 40% of what was then the legal limit into a low random wire fed with<br>> a L-tuner. Life was good.<br>><br>> Later, at Calvert Hall Brother Gerald sold the SR-150 and we got an NCX-5<br>_______________________________________________<br>NCDXA mailing list<br>NCDXA@ncdxa.org<br>http://mail.rickmurphy.net/mailman/listinfo/ncdxa<br></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>