Ah yes. I remember one house my folks rented that had the wooden
crank phone on the wall. You just rang-up the operator for all
calls. Mostly, we had the plain black phone with no dial. Then one
with a dial (also black). Now you just tell your cell to "call home".
My first rig was a three tube knight-kit "ocean-hopper" with plug-in
coils for different bands. First xmtr was a DX-35, and antenna a 40m
twinlead folded-dipole. I recently found a old ocean hopper with
most of the coils and a heath "two'er". Don't use them but kept for memories.
We could not even dream of a radio like the K3.
73, Ed - KL7UW
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Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 19:49:31 -0700
From: "Ron D'Eau Claire" <
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: NOT an analog radio.
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Ah, but there was something magic about those years that modern times have
lost.
We were on the "frontier" of communications back then, when many people
never even thought of making a phone call more than a dozen miles away (it
took an operator to make calls farther and often we had to wait for her to
call back once the circuit was completed). The idea of a kid building
something that could communicate with another state, much less another
country, was astounding to most people (including me!)
Ron AC7AC
73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45
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