Ham Radio From The Past...

This should bring a smile to anyone who played around with radios back in the "good old days"...

I received this today via email. It's a page from a 1960 issue of Electronics Illustrated showing a home-made, 4-tube transmitter/receiver project.

This is the "stuff" that we did as kids back in the mid-20th century and, amazingly, a simple set like this could communicate all over the world.

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an enlarged view)

Pictured below is a 3-tube set that I made back in the mid-1960's. It had three tubes (6L6 transmitter, 6SN7 receiver and 5U4 power supply), and fit in the attache' case shown in the photo.

Radio Card From Libya Contact...

You don't see many of these... it's a QSL card from Libya. This is from a contact I had with this station in November, 2006.

What makes it even better is that it confirms my contact with them on 80 meters, which is a difficult band to make long distance radio contacts, especially with my low power and small vertical antenna.