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Look what else I found while cleaning the house yesterday: a Hallicrafters S-38! 😍

I built my first working transmitter when I was 12. Two years earlier had learnt Morse code and started building an AM receiver: went to an electronics store and asked for a "Leyden jar", which was what I thought capacitors were called, based on an old encyclopedia I was reading. Needless to say, I ended up drawing a schematic to get what I wanted.

The pictured was acquired a few years later.

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Tom Montgomery

@65dBnoise

I remember those! Several of my ham radio friends started out with S-38s. Is that an added S-meter at the bottom left? The local oscillator and speaker switch were in that location, IIRC...

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Gary Schulz

@65dBnoise Hallicrafters. Now there's a brand name I had long since forgotten. I think my first ham radio receiver was a used a Hallicrafters, way back in the day, early '60s. It looked a lot newer than the one in your picture there, though. My transmitter was a Heathkit DX-60. Thanks for the memory.

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Fred_S_at (main)

@65dBnoise
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DCC

@65dBnoise tres cool

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Andrew "Ace" Arsenault

@65dBnoise That's a beautiful radio! : D

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