Just thought I'd mention a project that I'm a part of. Here, at the
college where I teach, we've purchased several old Hallicrafter S-38s
off of eBay for our beginning Electronic Engineering students to get
some hands-on experience with communication electronics. The
instructor in Engineering is a Tech class amateur operator and has
formed a little radio club. Despite the fact that most of these
students had never even heard of shortwave before starting their
studies here, they've done an excellent job of re-conditioning and re-
calibrating these old tube radios. This quarter we had them buy the
TenTec regenerative receiver kits, so they could compare the tube
radios to some simple solid state designs. A couple days ago, for
their final project, they took the receivers outside and hooked them
up to antenna and ground system we had assembled. It was a real
delight to see the excitement some of these kids expressed as they
heard signals from the other side of the world that weren't bouncing
off of satellites. A couple of them want to start amateur study groups
to help work towards their licenses. Our goal for the Spring is to rig
a permanent antenna on the top of our classroom building.

I've already donated several radios to the club (including 10 and 2
meter transceivers), but if anyone out there is aware of anyone who
might be willing to make a tax-deductible donation of any equipment to
a group of eager students, please let me know. I'll have them contact
you directly to work out the specifics.

Mike Bryant
General Education Dep't Chair

On Dec 12, 1:22�pm, Mike wrote:
Just thought I'd mention a project that I'm a part of. Here, at the
college where I teach, we've purchased several old Hallicrafter S-38s
off of eBay for our beginning Electronic Engineering students to get
some hands-on experience with communication electronics. The
instructor in Engineering is a Tech class amateur operator and has
formed a little radio club. Despite the fact that most of these
students had never even heard of shortwave before starting their
studies here, they've done an excellent job of re-conditioning and re-
calibrating these old tube radios. This quarter we had them buy the
TenTec regenerative receiver kits, so they could compare the tube
radios to some simple solid state designs. A couple days ago, for
their final project, they took the receivers outside and hooked them
up to antenna and ground system we had assembled. It was a real
delight to see the excitement some of these kids expressed as they
heard signals from the other side of the world that weren't bouncing
off of satellites. A couple of them want to start amateur study groups
to help work towards their licenses. Our goal for the Spring is to rig
a permanent antenna on the top of our classroom building.

I've already donated several radios to the club (including 10 and 2
meter transceivers), but if anyone out there is aware of anyone who
might be willing to make a tax-deductible donation of any equipment to
a group of eager students, please let me know. I'll have them contact
you directly to work out the specifics.

Mike Bryant
General Education Dep't Chair

Greetings Mike!
What a great idea! I am disabled but with all my mental faculties
remaining. I have thought about doing a similar thing in my area. I
love all aspects of radio but got hooked on shortwave and medium wave
as a teenager. I want to limit what I do now to restoring the old
Halicrafters, Nationals, etc, and building crystal kits. I would
appreciate any tips you or anyone else can give as to resources etc.
For you and anyone else there is a site I have found that has some
interesting kits. It is at the bottom of this post. Have a wonderful
weekend! Jon in Upstate South Carolina.

www.kits.com

On Dec 12, 1:44*pm, jon wrote:
On Dec 12, 1:22 pm, Mike wrote:





Just thought I'd mention a project that I'm a part of. Here, at the
college where I teach, we've purchased several old Hallicrafter S-38s
off of eBay for our beginning Electronic Engineering students to get
some hands-on experience with communication electronics. The
instructor in Engineering is a Tech class amateur operator and has
formed a little radio club. Despite the fact that most of these
students had never even heard of shortwave before starting their
studies here, they've done an excellent job of re-conditioning and re-
calibrating these old tube radios. This quarter we had them buy the
TenTec regenerative receiver kits, so they could compare the tube
radios to some simple solid state designs. A couple days ago, for
their final project, they took the receivers outside and hooked them
up to antenna and ground system we had assembled. It was a real
delight to see the excitement some of these kids expressed as they
heard signals from the other side of the world that weren't bouncing
off of satellites. A couple of them want to start amateur study groups
to help work towards their licenses. Our goal for the Spring is to rig
a permanent antenna on the top of our classroom building.

I've already donated several radios to the club (including 10 and 2
meter transceivers), but if anyone out there is aware of anyone who
might be willing to make a tax-deductible donation of any equipment to
a group of eager students, please let me know. I'll have them contact
you directly to work out the specifics.

Mike Bryant
General Education Dep't Chair

Greetings Mike!
What a great idea! *I am disabled but with all my mental faculties
remaining. *I have thought about doing a similar thing in my area. *I
love all aspects of radio but got hooked on shortwave and medium wave
as a teenager. *I want to limit what I do now to restoring the old
Halicrafters, Nationals, etc, and building crystal kits. *I would
appreciate any tips you or anyone else can give as to resources etc.
For you and anyone else there is a site I have found that has some
interesting kits. *It is at the bottom of this post. *Have a wonderful
weekend! *Jon in Upstate South Carolina.

www.kits.com- Hide quoted text -




Thanks for the URL, Jon! The EE instructor should have some material
that I might be able to gather for you. I lack the electronic skills
for the restoration hobby myself, but some of our students are quite
talented at it. Feel free to forward me an address where we can send
any material to. I can be reached at this email. I'm more into modern
solid state portables, myself, but I am looking forward to getting the
antenna up so that I can DX while at work!

Mike