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Re: [TenTec] Fw: Re [Ten Tec}OT - Entry Level for Boys

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Fw: Re [Ten Tec}OT - Entry Level for Boys
From: Joe Papworth via TenTec <tentec@contesting.com>
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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 23:09:39 -0400
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Hi Wes,
I'll add yours to to the rest. Do you a copy?
 Seeya, Joe, K8MP

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From: Wes Attaway (N5WA) <wesattaway@bellsouth.net>
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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Fw:  Re [Ten Tec}OT - Entry Level for Boys


I will have to chime in.  

I got my novice license (KN5DGI) in 1955 and built the "6146 Oscillator" TX
that was described in QST by Lew McCoy.  I had an SX99 RX.  Antenna was a
40-meter dipole fed with some really tiny 72-ohm twin lead that ran through
the trees and in through a window with no thought of matching or lightning
protection.  I later built a little antenna tuner, also described in QST.

Everything was paid for with saved-up paper route money.

I had 2 or 3 XTALs and my first QSO was with a fellow in El Campo Texas.

If anyone wants pictures of my early setup, I have them.   

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Wes Attaway (N5WA)
(318) 393-3289 - Shreveport, LA
Computer/Cellphone Forensics
AttawayForensics.com
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Hi Clayton,
 I'll add yours to the document. Do you want a copy of the finished product?
Later, Joe

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Subject: [TenTec] Fw:  Re [Ten Tec}OT - Entry Level for Boys




     Joe:  My first station was a surplus ARC5 station on 40 meters.  My
uncle helped me get on the airand did manage to get the transmitter xtal
controlled.  I used that station for quite a long time andworked quite a
list of stations.  I was later able to get the VFO going after upgrading.
73 Clayton N4EV
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I built a GR-91 too Duane. Yep, it was  horrible, but I guess you get what 
you pay for. HI HI 
I used mine as an  outboard BFO for the floor model Zenith. 
Joe, K8MP
 
 
In a message dated 8/19/2016 5:37:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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 writes:

OK, one  more.  When I started out as WN2HDS in 1963, I was using a Heath
GR-91  (terrible RX), and a built-from the Handbook 30W 6DQ6B oscillator.
QSO's  were very few and far between.  Worked all summer mowing lawns  to
purchase and build a Knight-Kit R-100A with Q-Multiplier and  S-Meter.  Now
THAT was a receiver (compared to the Heath)....  It  didn't help that I
ordered a 7175 kc  40m crystal - yep, right  on top of Radio Moscow.  Ouch!

73,  Duane


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