Posted by John T on December 16, 2011 at 19:48:44 from (173.243.181.15):
In Reply to: Re: OT Old Time Radio posted by Bob Huntress on December 16, 2011 at 19:37:01:
Ham is still alive n kickin, right wingers, survivalist and the likes. I was never a REAL Ham, but I did have a 2 meter no code tech license and I'm still a good SWL Short wave Listener on my Hammarlund HQ 110 and Hallicrafters SX 110. It was just more romantic to sit in the ham shack on a cold snowy evening with the tubes glowing and tweaking the antenna tuners, I still have my 1967 ARRL Handbook the BIBLE of Ham radio.
Nowadays the expensive ICOM receivers do all the work digitally automatically just turn it on punch in the frequency and it does what it took 30 minutes and tweaking 50 knobs used to, no fun anyone can do it now
See my post reply below for a couple fun web sites with all the old radio you want
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