Lots of good stories still rollin' in guys.
Keep 'em comin' and I'll add them to the "We were Novices once, and Young"
stories.
Later, Joe
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From: Mr Bill Mellema via TenTec <tentec@contesting.com>
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Cc: Mr Bill Mellema <n3wm@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sun, Aug 21, 2016 09:24 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Re [Ten Tec}OT - Entry Level for Boys
Guys...good to hear Cousin Bruce is still on the air..use to listen to him on
an old Pilot BC/Shortwave receiver with a 12 inch speaker hi hi
I started out with a Knight Kit Star Roamer and DX20 to a inverted vee...moved
up to a BW5100 and SX99...do remember the B&W5100 had low drive on 10
meters...what a bear....I have a picture of that set up on QRZ.COM
I had left for the Navy after graduation June 1967 ..Great Lakes for boot
camp...came home after boot camp and had a "pink slip" from the FCC....TVI
complaint from a neighbor.....dated at the time I was away....can't win hi hi
73's
Bill N3WM
From: Duane Calvin <<a
href="mailto:ac5aa1@gmail.com">ac5aa1@gmail.com</a>>
To: 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment' <<a
href="mailto:tentec@contesting.com">tentec@contesting.com</a>>
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Re [Ten Tec}OT - Entry Level for Boys
Used mine to listen to WABC, 770 kc, Cousin Bruce in NYC playing all the R
'n' R hits of the early 60's. Cousin Bruce is now on SiriusXM spinning the
oldies on weekday evenings these days for a national audience!
73, Duane
Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas
<a href="mailto:ac5aa@ac5aa.com">ac5aa@ac5aa.com</a>
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On Behalf Of Joe
Papworth via TenTec
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 7:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Re [Ten Tec}OT - Entry Level for Boys
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,
<a href="mailto:ac5aa1@gmail.com">ac5aa1@gmail.com</a> 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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