[BC] AM Radio Kit

[Rob Atkinson]

dan, how well did it get out?

rob a.


From: "Dan Kelley" <djkelley at frontier.net>
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Subject: RE: [BC] AM Radio Kit
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 19:16:14 -0500

Had a Lafayette AM transmitter kit too...small green or blue
metal case, IIRC.  Lafayette brand on the case too...

My antenna was a long long-wire strung from my 2nd story
bedroom window and then around 3 trees in my parent's
backyard.

The mighty WDK...AM 1200...Deerfield, IL circa 1969-70...

dan in lansing...



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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Rob Atkinson
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 6:47 PM
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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>
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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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