[BC] AM Radio Kit

[Rob Atkinson]

no, it was worse than that.  it was something that wouldn't be allowed on 
the market today.

The chassis consisted of a single piece of stamped steel in the shape of an 
upside down U with flanges on the ends.  It was a U when viewed from the 
sides.  i.e. there were front and rear panels, with the tubes on top, but no 
bottom and no sides.  so the components and 120 v. were all exposed 
underneith.
no company would ever sell this thing to kids today in a million years.

rob atkinson
st. charles IL
k5uj

From: "Rev. Robert P. Chrysafis" <kc8gpd at hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [BC] AM Radio Kit
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 19:05:41 -0500

Was this the transmitter you had...

http://www.knightkit.com/


----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo at hotmail.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 6:46 PM
Subject: RE: [BC] AM Radio Kit


>when i was around 10 years old, i got an AM bc band transmitter from 
>Lafayette Electronics.   i don't remember much about it except that it used 
>one or two tubes and plugged into the wall(!!!).  none of those wimpy 
>batteries for me.   the "power supply" involved the use of a huge Omite 
>wire wound resistor, which got hot as hell.   you adjusted the frequency by 
>moving a slug in a coil.   The antenna was a 3 foot long wire that came out 
>the side of the chassis through a grommet, and you were supposed to keep it 
>vertical and taped to a wall ( or some other method of support). I think 
>the instruction sheet cautioned to only use the supplied wire for an 
>antenna which I did.  lots of microphonics on it and i don't remember how 
>audio got into it or how well it got out signal-wise.   Not very well I 
>think because I don't recall fooling around with it for very long.    I 
>wonder how much trouble I would have gotten in, if I had known then what I 
>know now about antennas.    maybe youthful ignorance isn't all bad.
>
>rob atkinson
>st. charles IL
>k5uj
>
>
>From: "Bob Barnswatts" <amfan at collins21e.com>
>Reply-To: Broadcasters' Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
>To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
>Subject: RE: [BC] AM Radio Kit
>Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:34:35 -0600
>
>Sounds like the story of my life growing up on a farm.  I somehow got one 
>of those breadboard kits you know where you can make a radio receiver, a 
>little transmitter,  various other bells and whistles  and who knows what 
>else out of it by simply reconfiguring the wiring.  (all powered by a 9 
>volt battery it was so powerful)  I had it out one day in front of the 
>farmhouse and i had the old Ford F-150 radio on and the doors open and i 
>was modulating something into it and listening to it on the radio and my 
>mean uncle  at the time came flying out the door and raised hell that the 
>FCC would be coming and we'd lose the farm and all be in jail and he tore 
>it up right there and ruined my little transmitter.   So I never got to see 
>how far it got out, that was the next step to take a ride down the country 
>roads and check out my long wire antennae.  I was probably 13 at the time 
>but still drove around the farm.  He ranted and raved so much and 
>complained to my parents and eveyrone that would listen for weeks and i 
>never heard the end of it that we were all going to go to jail if anyone 
>ever found out what i had done on a saturday afternnon that summer so I, 
>needless to say, never tried anything like that again (around there). This 
>was back in the early 70;s or late 60s.
>
>-Bob.
>
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