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KB2VXA > TODAY 07.08.16 14:06l 39 Lines 1484 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 22142_VK6ZRT
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Subj: Re: N0KFQ > Kon-Tiki
Path: IW8PGT<CX2SA<ZL2BAU<VK4TUB<VK6ZRT
Sent: 160807/1141Z @:VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC #:22142 [Boyanup] $:22142_VK6ZRT
From: KB2VXA@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : TODAY@WW
Hi radio history buffs,
I feel a personal connection with Tor Heyerdal and his Kon-Tiki expedition,
after a series of scrounged radio chassis my first communications receiver
was the same make and model he used, a National Radio NC-173. While the
transmitter is unknown to me, in one of many pictures the receiver can be
seen through an open door. Using a socket on the rear skirt it is battery
capable, the 6V heater line powered by a storage battery and the B+ by any
number of means including a 90V B battery in common use with portable radios,
I happened to have one of those too. For AC mains operation a jumper plug is
inserted into the battery socket and it uses its internal power transformer
and rectifier. That's when it was one small step for a teenager, one giant
leap for SWLing <groan> and the future KB2VXA.
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"New Jersey, the most American of all states. It has everything from
wilderness to the Mafia. All the great things and all the worst,
like Route 22."
Jean Shepherd K2ORS (SK) & WOR radio personality
73 de Warren
Station powered by JCP&L atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
Message timed by NIST: 07-Aug-2016 at 11:41 GMT
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