Novice Stations of the 1960's - 1975 Part 2

[@barrymontgomery9860]

Love these video’s! My dad had ALS back in the 70/80’s (he survived 18 Years, one of the longest) he was on a respirator and could not talk or move, he could CW via a straw in his mouth (KT3O) and he could “talk” to the world! All the local hams came over and set up/fixed his rig when needed. I fell asleep many a night to the sound of the world in morse code. I got my ticket in 1985, but after my fathers passing I let my ticket expire. Your ARC-5 videos got me hooked on your channel and back into Ham radio and now I have my old call back. Thank you!

[@bronka42]

welcome back , OM

[@barrymontgomery9860]

bronka42 gutierrez thank you!

[@BruceNitroxpro]

God bless... what a wonderful way to remember your dad. I got my ticket about 1957 and never regretted it. de KQ2E

[@russpeck1320]

Your videos are the best thing on ham radio I have ever seen. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm. Building and repairing electronics has been a wonderful hobby of mine, one that led to a career in the industry. I hope some young folks can find the joy that we have had, getting our hands a little dirty and learning the intricacies (oops, OUCH!) of electricity. 73

[@MIKROWAVE1]

Thank you for watching and for the great feedback. Some kid is watching no doubt and some 70 something kids are too.

[@sathyamurthyponniah124]

Excellent video Sir ! Brings back memories of yester years, 6v6’s 807’s and 5U4 G tubes. Thank you so much !

[@MIKROWAVE1]

Those are the classic bits for a real transmitter.

[@jimgiordano8218]

Brought back memories. I got my novice license in 1971 and was building all kinds of radios. Then got into Heathkit like a mad scientist. Fun times, now 40 years later I am getting into ham radio again.

[@Tom-W7TMD]

My generation and newer hams missed out on so much. So much to learn and have fun with.

[@MIKROWAVE1]

I really did too but I managed to grab some of the old 50s and 60s excitement even though it was the 70s

[@dougtaylor8735]

This brings back memories. My brother was a novice in 1967. He used whatever he could find till he got his General and then moved up a quantum leap to the Heathkit HW-101. Lots of fun building and running it for years. Thanks for this refreshing video. Please make more.

[@AlreadyThere1965]

It is nice to see these older radios. I was licensed in 1970 so much of them are familiar. Thanks for taking the time to make this.

[@mikepetroff4240]

Very nice video and explanations. It brought me back to the 50's when I was a Novice and then moved up to General class. I had a DX20 with a screen grid modulator for AM. A family friend lent me a 75A-1 receiver, which made me the hit of my high school ham radio club. Thank again!

[@vonzigle]

I Started with a Heath DX-20 xmtr and an AR3 receiver in 1958. Worked a lot of stations on 40 and 15 meters. The sunspot cycle was at near record levels. Later on, acquired a BC-348 which I used till I graduated from college in 1965. Thanks for bringing back pleasant memories!

[@SkyWire88]

Fine, fine job. Takes me way back. Big smiles here at the QTH. Thank you sir! de Earle / WB3EFE

[@khalidtarawneh2289]

well where shall i begin? Firstly i would like to say that your videos are like therapy to me and I'm sure many more would agree, I find my self watching them over and over with no boredom what so ever. I also went along and read some of the stories written by Operators on the Novice Historical Society talking about their experiences and man did some of those stir the thrills in me HI HI. would love to see the building and schematics for that beautiful Tx you held there at the end especially for 40m if possible. Again TNX FER sharing this wonderful info 73's from Amman JY

[@MIKROWAVE1]

Kahlid, thanks for watching. Is Kahroba Elektronica still open near the Intercont. just before 3rd Circle?

[@khalidtarawneh2289]

@@MIKROWAVE1 OMG I can't believe my eyes. Actually I think it might still be ill definately check that n let know.. As majority of electronics shifted to different areas

[@yophotoman]

OMG! A Heathkit AR-3 short wave receiver! I built one of those as a DIY kit in the 60's as a teenager. BC-348 military surplus receiver! I still have one!

[@mikesmuseum]

Great stuff - Thanks for all your efforts! Your videos could never be too long!

[@shamrock1961]

The hobby could use projects like this. We've become spoiled with all the digital technology. The day we added WINDOZE 10 to operate a transceiver is the day I declared I will build my own if I can find the parts. Great presentation.

[@martyyoung598]

I was fortunate to have an Elmer who was a WW2 radioman and taught me how to correctly send with proper hand and knob control. I didn’t get much training building stuff, but got lots of complements on my fist! Hi!

[@BruceNitroxpro]

Marty Young , My Elmer was an engineer who taught me the difference between a real ham and an uneducated "engineer." LOL By the end of 1957, I found myself using stuff I hadn't heard of before, like the types of antennas talked about here. de KQ2E

[@michaelhudock8426]

Great video series. I was first licensed in 1967 and like you show life was very different for the ham. I has a TV repairman give me a TCS Receiver and Transmitter. I traced out the power connector and build a HB supply. My Transmitter was from the 1949 handbook. A 6V6 built on an orange crate

[@radiotronic]

Michael, absolutely wonderful content on your channel. Much appreciated!

[@normanmoment7379]

Thanks for bringing back those memories. Got novice licence about '64. Used an ancient rack mount James Millen 90800 - An 807 with 6L6 driver (Plug-in Tank Coil for each tube).

[@marknesselhaus4376]

Oh how that all brings back fond memories as a novice in 1974. I had just about all of that station gear at one time or another over my first few years :-D

[@michaelberry1028]

Happy days and very interesting... Thanks

[@cfpradiocreationsfredetpie8120]

i've found your channel only q few weeks ago shame on me :) so great content, I restore radio for years and your content is exactly what I'm interested for. so cool. every morning at breakfast I'm watching and due to your big content I will do this for years. sorry for the poor English. have a nice day

[@n8nkqrp595]

This is the most amazing, wonderful, feel-good ham radio video series ever made! It should be required 'watching' for every new testee, with questions about the content. In fact - every new licensee first licensed since 1980 shall be retro-tested on the video series as well. I'll call it.. hmm.. the 'cultural appreciation' element of the exam. Maybe then morons would leave 7.048 and go back where they belong. Thank you SO much! 73 OM

[@mauricewilkes826]

Yet another excellent video Mike!

[@jeffgarrett4533]

Great video OM brought back good memories well done 73 KE4EZ

[@MIKROWAVE1]

These were fun and desperate times!

[@josephhager1933]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience means so much to me and very helpful

[@scharkalvin]

Back in the 80's I made a three band trap dipole (80/40/30) building two sets of traps. I used some surplus ceramic doorknob capacitors and B&W inductor stock. I measured the coils on the workbench with a GD meter, but I also double checked the dip with the dipole hanging loose from the tower (not quite up all the way) while I stood on an A frame ladder. I then adjusted first the inner dipole SWR on 30, added the 40 meter legs and 30 meter traps and double checked the 30 meter SWR before adjusting the 40 meter segments. Added the 40 meter traps and 80 meter legs, repeat, spin, rinse! That dipole worked rather well, 80 meters was set for the phone band, but would load up fine on CW thanks to matchbox.

[@voytekfid7734]

Nice movie, and nice radio history. Than you. 73 from Voytek

[@grs6262]

my first comments to you altho been monitorin' you for long time---good memories--gotham vertical was everywhere advertised---made my own version of one--worked ok---needed more radials i know now--spring of '58 was magic--i entered this hobby and been active ever since, except for 4 year stint in army--but i was CW intercept there so got plenty of radio--very enjoyable and also informative, even for those of us who have been around for a few days--thank you and 73--k5psh

[@johnshellythomas7695]

OMG I had a broken-down BC-348, which a neighbor had given me as "payment" for helping him mow the lawn and clean up etc. .... I never could get it working ... but what amazing mechanical construction.

[@BruceNitroxpro]

See Mr Carlson's Lab here on KZbin, but first join him on Patreon.com. You will have that old BC-348 receiver going in no time. Don't worry about anything he says... the man is a VERY competent engineer.

[@MoTown44240]

Very good video MIke. Merry Christmas. Brings back memories that sparked my interest to become a ham. If I could go back in time and change things I would not have waited 22 years to let that spark turn into a flame when I got my Novice in 1987. The Novice 90, what I knew as an inverted "L" and the Gotham Vertical are two antenna names I've not heard. Thanks for introducing them to me.

[@Sys-Edit0r-1995]

Man I really wish I was born in the days of the novice class. I love to fix and build things and this day and age it just doesn't seem the same. I feel like I'm lone wolf in my cities club (RARC), being one of the few builders in it, although I haven't met everyone in the club and I do know there are some older guys who where builders at one point, but it seems like it's a dying art. I'm a fairly young guy (23) and it would have been so cool to be able to build and use this stuff and learn in detail how it works, sure there's some kits out there today, but I don't think it has the same feel. I quite like the older equipment especially tube stuff. I think what I like about it is that it's all "Macro" big enough you can see what it's doing, and actually work on it. Anyway, 73 de David KEØPBI

[@superhet7281]

Excellent! You’ve inspired me to put up an HF antenna. Merry Christmas and happy new year Mike!

[@MIKROWAVE1]

Thanks and same to you and your family!

Fantastic dear Mike. Thanks for the excellent images of old equipment. Happy 2019. José Luís- ea5bii-73s

[@bill-2018]

I remember the Command receiver. Nice to see some older gear again. I started SWLing with an H.A.C. one valve receiver aged 13. About 8 years ago I made a one valve tx. using a 61BT valve out of a non working oscilloscope, about 1½ Watts out. Chirpy if I try to get any more power out. Xtalled for the QRP frequencies on 40m and 60m. G4GHB.

[@MIKROWAVE1]

Yup and the big valves can crack the crystals. Big Crystals are better in that regard. New HC-49 crystals are worse...

[@md10591]

very interesting video Mike , but next time try to load the tomatoes cage from your back yard on 40 meters , hi ! 73 ka2kug .

[@tommybewick]

Great overview, I was too young back then but you have inspired me to build something! Merry Christmas!

[@davidgood6320]

I got my novice ticket circa 1965. My transmitter was the venerable 6L6 single stage rig and a Knight Kit R-100. Oh when I think of it! That’s when ham radio used to be fun. Sigh

[@jeromewysocki8809]

David Good, it still can be fun! Just do as I did and build some of this tube stuff. I began as a novice in 1962 (as WA9FHH), built stuff from scrapped TVs and it worked. Real fun. I still build and use this stuff. ... Jerry Wysocki, KC9JXE

[@peternilan4276]

i the bc348 and the command sets also heathkit stuff in the uk after ww11 we had lots of american radios the RCA AR88 was one of them! thanks for your youtube video it brings back great memories peter G0LVG

[@declercqmichel2990]

Thank for Nice vidéos on4kmc Best 73

[@renetrinquet120]

Impressive collection of "oldies but goodies" !!! 73's from France. René very little little french SWL but i love radio since i was 10 years old . I am today 61 old ;-)

[@erdingtown]

i loved my 10 meter coaxial vertical stuck in the sewer pipe in the dorm with a coax droped down i to my window, worked like a charm 6aq5, 12ax7, 6au8 home brew

[@MIKROWAVE1]

Nice! I lived in a high rise at RIT and attempted to load up my window frame. Sansui Amplifiers protested and I was QRT pretty quick. People were forming a lynch mob in the hall.

[@jeremycole3008]

running 200 / 300 volts on tubes scares me way more than a half wave rectified 120 vac line voltage. You would have had a heart attack seeing how I wired up a general radio oscillator a few years ago just to use it. I do get your concern about how peoples household power plugs are wired though. Its still kinda practed if you think about the upstream portion of a modern day switching power supply rectifying 120 vac RMS ofcourse into 170 Volts. I did buy a real general radio power supply to run my oscillators now though, since one was available on ebay. Though this same topic of safety is why I never became A television repair guy. Opening a CRT unit scares the crap outta me, probably the same as what you described about running +170 from the house line down your widowmaker stuff. To me, the widowmaker was over 200 volts on a tube. And yes, I do know why it needs to be very high.

[@PapasDino]

Thanks for the memories Mike...Merry Christmas! 73 - Dino KL0S

[@N9CQX]

What fun, nice job OM. Harry

[@kamalkouerd5040]

Please, how do you protect a radio from outside noise?

[@erin19030]

My first job was with Barker & Williams.

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

There must be a way to use TELEFUNKEN Space Charge Vacuum tubes that can run on between 9-30V with a heater of 3V, you want to use a BALUN to match your dipole antenna to the coax.

[@dambuster6387]

I have a 1946 ARRL Handbook it shows a 807 crystal M.O.P.A 25 watts and you can plug in to the crystal socket a V.F.O.

[@KarlsLabReport]

Would love to hear more about the Gotham Vertical.

[@thebuggy736]

To learn Morse Code is a important part of a Novice ham. How did you learn morse code, with a codemaster morse code oscillator you used later as a monitor on your transmitter? In a morse code class as scout or alone at home?

[@MIKROWAVE1]

From Boy Scouts and my Sears 100 mW Base Station with the code key on Channel 14 with my best friend, who was about 2 blocks away. Oh how the CBers loved our CW QSOs

[@BruceNitroxpro]

Just curious, as a follower of Paul Carlson of Mr Carlson's Lab fame... "Have you replaced all the leaky caps in the old receivers you show?" In other words, almost ALL of them? I had to admit, I still had a few in equipment that I had totally forgotten about here. de KQ2E, Bruce (First licensed circa 1957 as WV2CCE)

[@davidkerl1431]

My first receiver was homebrewed regen, 1C5gt, I recently built another duplicate just for the fun of it. Dave N9HF

[@stanleybadams]

Eico 720 with Johnson vfo and xtals. Eimac rx. 1971.

[@stationvictormike3415]

I'd like to get one of those Dip Meters

[@bobbysykesjr.354]

I don't care what anybody says but those were fun days......

[@ronb6182]

Yes kinda like the 8 and 16 bit computers. Computers were fun until windows took over. You could write your own programs and they were free to copy and pass along to your friends. Now you don't even own your own computer. You may have bought it but every program is rented. You pay for updates maybe not for money but your privacy. I am done with buying Microsoft computers I will just use my old stuff. My phone took over the need for a desktop computer and even a laptop. My old ones will do word processing and that's about all I need. It will be a year soon when my internet service stopped and I don't miss it my work has all I need if I need to look something up. I may hook my phone and/ or tablet to my tv and have a big screen. Back to ham radio. I had an Atwater Kent radio which I picked up anything from the low end of the broadcast band all the way up to 18 Mhz. I sure miss that radio. I think the only thing I replaced was the filter capacitor and the transformer everything else was original maybe one resistor because the wire broke off the one end. I loved the sound of stereo on AM. Maybe not two channels but the fidelity was outstanding. It sounded like stereo. In fact the sound was way better than any transistor stereo. These radios were fun to work on. I also had a radio compass for war aircraft I did not use the direction finder but it picked up long wave transmissions from 150 khz to 1500 khz which I could pick up WCKY in Cincinnati Ohio from Florida. The actual range went up to 1530 khz off the scale. It the radio ran off two car batteries which was enough voltage to run the 28 volt dynamotor. The filaments were 6 volt I guess there was a dropping resistor in the radio. I built a power supply from a 12 volt battery eliminator which had a transformer that was 24 volt on the secondary I put a bridge rectifier and computer grade capacitor which the voltage needed to be dropped down to 28 volts I had a 100 watt wire wound resistor that had a slide to drop the resistance to the correct value to get 28 volts under load. My nephew loved the oldies station in NC which played no disco crap. We had fun with this WW1 radio. 73

[@robertpendergast2620]

Excellent presentation and so interesting to me as well. N5JYW

[@RichLeespage]

I have the radio at 2:07 :)

[@СтаМилАлас]

Свака част, прави радиоаматер и ја сам од 1966 године аматер и бавио сам се конструкцијама и данас чувам све то што сам правио то је права љубав веза са целим светом истински хоби.

[@СтаМилАлас]

73 милан

[@warplanner8852]

OH NOES! *NOT* an S-38E receiver! I had one and it was a dog! The cursor on the slide rule was as wide as the novice 80m or 40m band and the band spread was the drizzlies! No nostalgia here. 73 de WV6KJK, WN6EPZ, KB6HK, K6WHP, KR6LP, N6ABV

[@kvintaureli8382]

I had wiew your video a lot and some time it isn't easy for me. I don't understand english well and when you turn your head from microphone your voice is less intelligible. Will better if you will use body microphone.