Subj : Re: Conversion up or down
To : Tony Langdon
From : Holger Granholm
Date : Fri Sep 16 2016 09:38 am
In a message on Friday 09-15-16 Tony Langdon said to Holger Granholm:
GE Tony,
HG> Actually, I didn't have he time either, but I was so bitten by the bug,
TL> I did too, but didn't have the money or facilities (PCB
TL> manufacturing) to build most things.
When I built my first gear (1952), nobody new anything about PCB's.
My first build was a 14-tube double conversion receiver for the Ham
bands. Then a 50 Wo rack mounted CW/AM transmitter.
1955 I built my first SSB exciter, that was a copy of the Central
Electronics 20A, and then a SB-Slicer for the receiver. Then followed a
new transmitter rack that contained an AM modulator that never was
completed, a class AB1 150 Wo PA, and a hefty power supply.
1957 I completed a luggable SSB transmitter, and a receiver, both based
on US surplus ARC transmitters/receivers, intended for a DXpedition..
That year I made made the DXpedition to OH0, as OH2OJ/OH0, with my XYL,
OH2QJ/OH0. The Aland Islands then became our new home.
After that I've built a lot of small appliances, and Heathkit gear, both
for myself, as well as to customers that didn't think they were capable.
Printed circuit boards didn't become a part of my life, until sometime
in the late 1960's when I had become active on VHF/UHF.
73 es GN de OH0NC,
Holger
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