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The Walter Ashe Novice Rig
Novices in the St. Louis area had no reason to envy their New York or Chiago ham buddies, not when they had Walter Ashe Radio Company in town. The spot they once occupied at 1125 Pine St in downtown St. Louis is now a parking lot, but the memories of this full-line electronics distributor lives on in it's catalogs which rivaled those of its bigger city counterparts.And Walter Ashe wa... READ MORE |
 W9RAN 02/47/2023 |
Heat up the iron |
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How To Build Radio Receivers
Looking for a simple radio project? Or just a nostalic read with those great old-time pictorial wiring diagrams? This little booklet was published for many years and still has ideas that might motivate you to get the iron hot!... READ MORE |
W9RAN 02/46/2023 |
Heat up the iron |
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The Deltronic CD-144A
The early 1950s were a time of uncertainty in the US. While the WWII soldiers and sailors had returned home and were re-entering the workforce or using their GI Bill benefits to prepare to do so, the Korean conflict had raised new fears: the Cold War era was beginning. While the threat of air raids or invasions in the United States became likely during the war, the focus ... READ MORE |
W9RAN 02/42/2023 |
Fone Forum |
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Sky King was a Hallicrafters man
Those of us pajama-clad Saturday morning visitors to the Flying Crown Ranch via our black and white Admiral TVs knew this. ..but it took someone who owns the DVD collection posting this image on Facebook to prove it: Sky King was a Hallicrafters man!This equipment was seen in the first year of the series, according to those in the know, and subsequently Gonset gear was most ofte... READ MORE |
W9RAN 02/35/2023 |
Welcome to the Shack |
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Looking to Ditch Twitter? Morse Code Is Back
"For almost 20 years, Steve Galchutt, a retired graphic designer, has trekked up Colorado mountains accompanied by his pack of goats to contact strangers around the world using a language that is almost two centuries old, and that many people have given up for dead. On his climbs, Galchutt and his herd have scared away a bear grazing on raspberries, escaped from fast-moving forest fires, camped ... READ MORE |
W9RAN 01/14/2023 |
Brass Pounding |
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101 Electronic Circuits
Most hams and hobbyists got their start in homebrewing by building simple circuits published in the various magazines. Every so often most of them could collect a bunch of popular circuits and combine them into a book - Sams, TAB Books, and the magazine publishers among others. Here's one from Gernsback, the publishers of Radio Craft magazine that is nicely organize... READ MORE |
W9RAN 01/05/2023 |
Tech Library |
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The Knight Kit Wireless Broadcaster
How many hams - - phone operators especially -- got their start with a Knight Kit Wireless Broadcaster? Who could resist the siren song of those ads in the Knight Kit section of the Allied Radio catalog with the promise of "transmitting your voice through any AM radio"? Maybe not too far away or with the greatest fidelity, but it was a real radio transmitter! Some may not know th... READ MORE |
W9RAN 12/357/2022 |
Fone Forum |
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It all starts with the Microphone
One of the most asked questions is, “What kind of microphone should I use? ”It all seems very confusing: Dynamic, Condenser, Ribbon, Electret, Large Diaphragm,Cardioid, Omni—so many technical words! Think of a microphone as a “backward”speaker: a microphone hears sound and transfers it into electricity. A speaker seeselectricity and transfers it into sound. The tec... READ MORE |
W9RAN 12/353/2022 |
Fone Forum |
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Signal need a boost? Build a 6DQ5 amp!
That's what vintage SSB enthusiast K5LYN did when he wanted more power from his Central Electronics station. Since he has it set up for transceiving using the output of the SX-115 receiver to control the frequency of the 20A, the station is dedicated to 75 meter operation anyhow, so a full bandswitched amplifier wasn't needed, and because the 20A can't provide the drive needed for a ... READ MORE |
W9RAN 12/352/2022 |
On the workbench |
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YASME - Exotic DX On the Air
Yasme is a storied word in amateur radio DX circles. DX stands for “distance” and the sailboats for which Yasme is named certainly covered their share of DX, crossing the oceans and dropping anchor at exotic islands some six decades ago. In turn, amateurs around the world, the “DX-ers,” would then try to contact the Yasme captain, Danny Weil, VP2VB, an amateur operator of... READ MORE |
W9RAN 12/351/2022 |
Looking Back |
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