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February 2019 DX-60 Check-ins


N6TLU, Terry, features our net once again on his YouTube D-Lab Electronics channel.

Net Checkin Videos 0 Comments 03/62/2019 


Posted By: Bradley Stone (stonebs)
Posted on 03/62/2019

Here is the N8ECR memorial DX-60 net. Net control now is W8TOW (Steve) He does a super job keeping the tradition alive. Lots of great antiques radios utilized. Experience the monstrous sound of plate modulation. I was using a super nice National NC-300 to monitor the net. Yes, a vintage hobby, however once you try it, I guarantee you will be hooked. A gathering of experienced Ham's spreading the good word. Keep AM Alive!


   If you're a long-time ham you might know what the smeary figure-8 pattern is....Back in the Novice era,  many used crystals purchased from suppliers like JAN Crystals who purchased large quantities of military surplus crystals and reground them for the ham bands.   That's why they were cheap, but also why you couldn't get a specific frequency as they'd grind by a formula and is long...  READ MORE
- Robert Nickels (W9RAN)  Posted: 01/22/2024 
   Ron K5HZ has been building equipment since he first got his ham license in the early 60s, and while he has other transmitters, all it took to build a new one was finding a "free to good home" power transformer at a hamfest.    It also gave him a chance to try using a couple of Compactron tubes that had caught his eye - the 6T10 dual pentode and the 6GE5 beam power pentode that was d...  READ MORE
- Robert Nickels (W9RAN)  Posted: 12/364/2023 
   If you build almost anything electronic, chances are good you've purchased parts from DigiKey Electronics.  But did you know that DigiKey - now one of the world's largest electronics distributors - started out as a ham radio company?"More than 50 years ago, a digital electronic device designed to generate uniform Morse characters and spaces was made available for sale by amateur radio enthusi...  READ MORE
- Robert Nickels (W9RAN)  Posted: 12/341/2023 
   Electronic Design magazine published an excellent interview in 2020 with Chas Gilmore W8IAI, former Heath engineer, manager, and executive.   Anyone with an interest in Heathkits will find this interview to be well worth the time to read. You can read it for free without registration here at the ELECTRONIC DESIGN WEBSITEThe photo below was borrowed from W8IAI's QRZ page, and shows h...  READ MORE
- Robert Nickels (W9RAN)  Posted: 11/332/2023 
   Upon examining a DX-40 given to me by a good friend, I was surprised not to find the usual fused plug on the AC line cord.   I thought maybe Heathkit realized the error of their ways and had put one inside - but no.  A check of the schematic confirmed that fuses were never a part of the DX-40 design.    This needed to be corrected but after first considering hogging a...  READ MORE
- Robert Nickels (W9RAN)  Posted: 11/320/2023