Re: CK722 transistor

Posted by Joe Malloy on May 26, 2011; 10:42pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/CK722-transistor-tp6408893p6409053.html

Gee, I think it was just before I was licensed (in 1964) that I
ordered my very first KC722 -- from PolyPaks in Lynn, MA, if I recall.
 It arrived with one lead missing, so I wrote (you couldn't afford to
call back then, at least at the age of 16) and received another, in
good shape.  Then, a few years later, I built a keyer/multivibrator
circuit from the Handbook and need some Fairchild ICs -- they had a
office neaby and I called -- took a while to find whoever could
"authorize" the sale -- and then drove to pick them up.  It clearly
wasn't a retail operation!  (That was when I lived on Long Island, ca.
1968.)

The good old days!

73,

Joe, W2RBA

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Wayne Burdick <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I obtained a CK722 when I was about 9 years old. It was the first
> electronic part I ordered. The only place I could think of to get one
> was Heathkit, and somehow I managed to talk them into sending me one
> as a replacement part.
>
> It was a few years later that I ordered my second part: a disc
> capacitor. From Digikey! (This was about 1970.) Unfortunately, they
> sent me the wrong part -- a monstrous, oil-filled electrolytic.
>
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
> On May 26, 2011, at 2:45 PM, John Adams wrote:
>
>> I once broke a leg off my ck722, I was a teenager....
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