To be honest, I was never into Ham radio! I had an old Heathkit receiver that my brother had built that I used to listen to RSA the Voice of South Africa on. They had a great show where people would write in and ask how they could improve the performance of their Hallicrafter XYZ radio, and this guy would get on and say...."looks like if you change C343 to .002 from .047 and R157 to 10K ohms from 22K ohms, you'll change the center frequency of the low pass filter to 5 kilocycles and get a higher "Q" in the tank circuit after V23, which absolutely blew my mind.
But I never had much, if any desire to transmit. I dunno, I was enough of a nerd all by myself and it seemed exactly like what CB truckers were in the 70's (even tho that hadn't happened yet)...just worthless chatter. I liked industrial and test gear and audio gear and recording electronic music. My buddy and I used to spend weekends in WNYC studios and we constructed an absolutely devilish setup with the guts of 2 scrapped electronic organs, 4 or 5 oscillators I had built, and five tape recorders all set up in two lines across his bedroom so a single reel of tape ran thru 3 machines on one pass, looped around the pole of a lamp, and then thru the last 2 machines, LOL. We were the original 30-second delay. The pile of crap we had going must have rivaled Dr. Frankenstein's lab except we didn't have the Jacob's ladder sparky things nor the dead bodies or flasks. His mom went completely ballistic when she saw what we were doing. Just classic.
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