[BC] My AM Radio Kit Antenna...

[Burt I. Weiner]

Ok guys - It was the early 50's and I was about 13 at the time.  Mine 
was a thing called and Electronic Baby Sitter.  It also had a 50C5 
modulated by a 50C5.  Sort of a MOPA, like a tiny BC-375.  This thing 
was on 550 KC.  My antenna was a 750 foot longwire between our house 
and a friends around the corner of a horseshoe hilltop ridge in the 
Los Feliz area of Los Angeles.  It had a little wire hanging out the 
back so I hooked it to the antenna (what's matching???) and it went 
way the hell off frequency.  I had to tune it back.  It got out but 
not overwhelmingly.  You could hear it about a mile and a half in a 
car.  The antenna went from a post on the back, upstairs porch to the 
side of my buddies patio.  It really sagged in the middle but we were 
up pretty high.  We used some old military copper clad wire we bought 
at J.J. Glass Electronics in downtown Los Angeles.  My dad made us 
take the antenna down because he was afraid it was going to pull the 
side off of the porch.  He was probably right.  Just think of what it 
might have done if it had been properly matched!

Burt

At 05:30 PM 2/4/2006, you wrote:
>Subject: Re: [BC] AM Radio Kit
>To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
>Message-ID:
>         <2950.192.168.1.1.1139100076.squirrel at sujan.hallikainen.org>
>Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
>
>
> > Was this the transmitter you had...
> >
> > http://www.knightkit.com/
>
>It's the one I had! Built it in fourth grade. I had the "newer" one that
>doubled as an audio amplifier. I found that I could take an external
>amplifier and drive the speaker output of the unit with the external
>amplifier. Got more modulation and perhaps better sound.
>
>Harold
>
>--
>FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com

Burt I. Weiner Associates
Broadcast Technical Services
Glendale, California  U.S.A.
biwa at earthlink.net
K6OQK