[BC] Westinghouse WOWO

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In a message dated 02/27/2006 04:55:17 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
jjohnson at goodnews.net writes:

> I built my first 'solid state' (major term at the time) superhet from 
>  scratch for a science fair project in 1959 or so. Worked great! (I was so 
>  pleased ...)

Was it a kit, or did you design the entire ckt fron scratch? I can't remember 
the 1'st radio I built or fixed... there've just been far too many in the 
interim. :)

I do remember the super-soup-up job I did to the one we had to assemble (on a 
breadboard type system) in Electronics Shop in my high School, though. I 
added another IF stage and another audio stage. It was picking up a Buffalo NY 
station loud and clear in the middle of the day (We're in Southern CT) and was 
capable of cranking out 55 watts (peak) of glorious monaural audio. ;)


>  tune up to the top of the dial (yep string dial pointer - home made) and 
>  peak for most noise. Test equipment?? -signal generator?? - why that was 
>  WOWO! Fond memories of young geekdom.
>  
>  Jeff.Johnson at goodnews.net

I was fortunate to have a station at 540 and one at 1600. Both weak, and 
perfect for alignment. Still have them, but the 540 is a bit stronger. (Power 
increase.) I also have a TIS about 2 miles away, on 1670, that makes an excellent 
alignment source. I also have a nice surplus digital RF gen.

Willie...