[BC] AM Radio Kit

Sat Feb 4 18:06:07 CST 2006

Was this the transmitter you had...

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo at hotmail.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 6:46 PM
Subject: RE: [BC] AM Radio Kit

> when i was around 10 years old, i got an AM bc band transmitter from 
> Lafayette Electronics.   i don't remember much about it except that it 
> used one or two tubes and plugged into the wall(!!!).  none of those wimpy 
> batteries for me.   the "power supply" involved the use of a huge Omite 
> wire wound resistor, which got hot as hell.   you adjusted the frequency 
> by moving a slug in a coil.   The antenna was a 3 foot long wire that came 
> out the side of the chassis through a grommet, and you were supposed to 
> keep it vertical and taped to a wall ( or some other method of support). 
> I think the instruction sheet cautioned to only use the supplied wire for 
> an antenna which I did.  lots of microphonics on it and i don't remember 
> how audio got into it or how well it got out signal-wise.   Not very well 
> I think because I don't recall fooling around with it for very long.    I 
> wonder how much trouble I would have gotten in, if I had known then what I 
> know now about antennas.    maybe youthful ignorance isn't all bad.
>
> rob atkinson
> st. charles IL
> k5uj
>
>
> From: "Bob Barnswatts" <amfan at collins21e.com>
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> To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Subject: RE: [BC] AM Radio Kit
> Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:34:35 -0600
>
> Sounds like the story of my life growing up on a farm.  I somehow got one 
> of those breadboard kits you know where you can make a radio receiver, a 
> little transmitter,  various other bells and whistles  and who knows what 
> else out of it by simply reconfiguring the wiring.  (all powered by a 9 
> volt battery it was so powerful)  I had it out one day in front of the 
> farmhouse and i had the old Ford F-150 radio on and the doors open and i 
> was modulating something into it and listening to it on the radio and my 
> mean uncle  at the time came flying out the door and raised hell that the 
> FCC would be coming and we'd lose the farm and all be in jail and he tore 
> it up right there and ruined my little transmitter.   So I never got to 
> see how far it got out, that was the next step to take a ride down the 
> country roads and check out my long wire antennae.  I was probably 13 at 
> the time but still drove around the farm.  He ranted and raved so much and 
> complained to my parents and eveyrone that would listen for weeks and i 
> never heard the end of it that we were all going to go to jail if anyone 
> ever found out what i had done on a saturday afternnon that summer so I, 
> needless to say, never tried anything like that again (around there). 
> This was back in the early 70;s or late 60s.
>
> -Bob.
>
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