MRAM

This is the Remco Caravelle. It was one of my first Part 15 endevors as a child.

The Caravelle came out around 1961. It was a combination Regenerative AM Receiver and AM Voice/Code Transmitter.

This is the Remco Caravelle. It was one of my first Part 15 endevors as a child.

The Caravelle came out around 1961. It was a combination Regenerative AM Receiver and AM Voice/Code Transmitter.

The transmitter was very unstable, changing frequency when you keyed the Carbon Button microphone.

The range was very limited, maybe 100 feet.

Of course, even way back then, I modified it so I could feed my record player directly into it.

The Caravelle gave Rush Limbaugh his start in radio. I guess we took different paths.

I got three of ’em from Ebay.

Were you in the Cub Scouts? Then you probably made a Cub Scout Crystal Radio. I did. Dad strung a wire between my bedroom window and the fence for the antenna.

Got a couple at Ebay.

Were you in the Cub Scouts? Then you probably made a Cub Scout Crystal Radio. I did. Dad strung a wire between my bedroom window and the fence for the antenna.

Got a couple at Ebay.

Want to remake one? This is the pictorial you attached to the box to mount the parts on.

I’m recapturing my youth on Ebay, one item at a time.

This Remco Crystal Radio is like the one I had all those years ago.

The dust has settled and for the moment, everything is running.

The dust has settled and for the moment, everything is running.

My main Station PC was having hard drive problems. When it was all said and done, the same drive seems to be working again in the original box and the MRAM STREAM is up again.

Temporarily the Station was running on the Trial Webpage server but that PC didn’t want to co-operate with the external USB drive that stores 90% of the audio files used on air. So I started sweating bullets around 0200 local time.

By 0230 everything was put back as it was and it’s still running. And just when I though the bed was in sight, I remembered an 0300 deadline for a voice-over edit.

It was a late night…

Hmmmm, something looks different. The elves were working late last night.

Well it seems that Part15 is not the only site that has occasional hosting/maintenance pains.

My 50webs FREE host is not allowing access to my MRAM webpage. All the files are intact. I can logon to my account profile and see that. However, my FTP app is not allowed to logon.

Short story – I’ve copied my MRAM webpage to a mirror site heartandhoof.com/mram keeping things going until I figure out what happened at 50webs.

Too bad all the search engines don’t know that!