First of the Year/ First Radio
 

Getting away from the flames for a bit, what was the first radio one
used? Lafayette HE20T with a ringo ant. plug in crystals. slid between
21 & 23 to get that extra channel...

jim wrote in message ...
Getting away from the flames for a bit, what was the first radio one
used? Lafayette HE20T with a ringo ant. plug in crystals. slid between
21 & 23 to get that extra channel...

My first was a Hallicrafters CB7, likewise xtal controlled xmit, but
with a tunable receiver. Built like a tank!

jim wrote:

Getting away from the flames for a bit, what was the first radio one
used? Lafayette HE20T with a ringo ant. plug in crystals. slid between
21 & 23 to get that extra channel...

Our first radio is a Lafayette Telsat 1140. It's in a box, somewhere.
We used an RS 1/4 wave groundplane. I still have that, too.

jim wrote:
Getting away from the flames for a bit, what was the first radio one
used? Lafayette HE20T with a ringo ant. plug in crystals. slid between
21 & 23 to get that extra channel...

Heh, I had an old Lafayette tuber also in 1972 (cant't recall the model#),
with a droopy drawers 1/4 wave. Had to search for someone to talk to back
then..

Cool thread, Jim.

realistic navaho (don't laugh) a starduster and an astrobeam
i used a piece of paperclip on the channel selector and got what we called
back then 23A

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"jim" wrote in message
...
Getting away from the flames for a bit, what was the first radio one
used? Lafayette HE20T with a ringo ant. plug in crystals. slid between
21 & 23 to get that extra channel...


Courier Fanfare 880 circa 1975. My first SSB radio was a SBE Consol II about
a year later.

Dr. Death wrote:
realistic navaho (don't laugh) a starduster and an astrobeam
i used a piece of paperclip on the channel selector and got what we called
back then 23A


yup 23a. wonder what channel that relates to now...

Tram Titan IIa with a 5/8 (yes, I said 5/8) Starduster antenna.
This was MY first CB.........Many other radios were at my disposal while
growing up.
My grandfather was R.P.O.A.
Train

"jim" wrote in message
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Getting away from the flames for a bit, what was the first radio one
used? Lafayette HE20T with a ringo ant. plug in crystals. slid between
21 & 23 to get that extra channel...

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:37:55 GMT, "Train" wrote:

Tram Titan IIa with a 5/8 (yes, I said 5/8) Starduster antenna.
This was MY first CB.........Many other radios were at my disposal while
growing up.
My grandfather was R.P.O.A.
Train

"jim" wrote in message
...
Getting away from the flames for a bit, what was the first radio one
used? Lafayette HE20T with a ringo ant. plug in crystals. slid between
21 & 23 to get that extra channel...



RPOA?

jim wrote in message ...
Getting away from the flames for a bit, what was the first radio one
used? Lafayette HE20T with a ringo ant. plug in crystals. slid between
21 & 23 to get that extra channel...

lafayette comstat 25 base....1968...........no doubt about
it.......bought it on time from lafayette.......paid $10.00 a
month.....had a call sign too issued by the fcc.....paid $8.00 for
three years i think.......in those days the area where i lived as a
kid was thickly populated with radio antennas.......and a grey 300 was
a big deal..........and the fcc routinely busted people for running
power......