m0t0_ryder
RYD!
CW does take commitment.Back in those days, one had to be motivated to get a ham ticket. That has changed. Now there is no motivation to learn CW at all, not for any class of license. Back when I was young, many other hams were my young age (teens). Now everybody on CW is still my around age (70). No young ones on CW any more. But IMO, anybody who learns CW well enough to get good at it, usually gets hooked on it. There are many hams all around my age, who ONLY work CW, such as myself. Looks like when we're gone, there will be no more CW ops in the USA.
It is very cool to comm around the world.
I live in the South Bay but have a large enough lot to install a larger antenna... if I chose to do so. I have my Step Dad's Avanti PDL II AV122 antenna (dis-assembled and stored). It is a cb tuned antenna so don't know how/if it would work in other (close) freq's. I doubt it. May just try to sell it for something more modern.
Is the Heathkit Receiver a HR-10?
It's the Heathkit GR-91
F-I-L also left me an old ICON IC-215 crystal transciever and a Zenith Ghia Trans Ocean RD7000Y.
The Heathkit and Trans Ocean are what have me thinking about a long wire antenna.
I use a Btech UV50x2 transceiver in my jeep.
I used to homebrew all my transmitters. But now, I just find it too easy to buy the stuff. My main rig is a Yaesu FTdx1200
73, -Don- AA6GA/7 Payson, AZ (RV).
Agreed.
But that old stuff is pretty darned cool!
I learned electronics in the 60's & 70's. Starting with tube theory (as that is what was primarily used then). In the USAF ('71 - 73, early out for end of 'Nam) I was a ground radar tech so learned early solid state theory there (Keesler AFB).
Worked my way thru college doing construction and repairing old tube TV's for folks in my small town.
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