Ir is certain that we will be
moving and I don't know where.
However I have had a chance to
sit and reflect on some of this.
There is a little time now.
I've been working on the carrier
Ir is certain that we will be
moving and I don't know where.
However I have had a chance to
sit and reflect on some of this.
There is a little time now.
I've been working on the carrier
current coupler with the LPB RC-6A
on 1020 kHz.
I took the top off of the EC-6A to
let the 3 6AL11s breathe. The signal
is confined to the house at the moment.
Listening to the RC-6A on the radio
in my house with Frank Sinatra coming
through at 8:AM on a Saturday morning
is the bees knees. Especially on
the antique tube radio in the kitchen.
No need to comment unless you want to.
Bruce, 1020 CC
No, I guess I don't want to.
Nice! I wonder how those who didn't grow up with vacuum tubes view them. Perhaps as puny light bulbs? I like tubes because they look like they are doing something. They also make good "circuit is live" indicators so you know the high voltage may be on. Transistors are sneaky about concealing this.
My concern is what is going to happen when all the old tubes get broken and the vacuum is released into the atmosphere. Since rain is associated with low pressure maybe it will rain for forty days and forty nights.
Neil
My enchantment with radio started with the sense of impossibility associated with hearing Chicago and Minneapolis in the living room in Tiny Town, Some Other State, where I grew up.
In an attempt to discover the secret I pulled the 5-foot tall wooden furniture style radio away from the wall and saw all these glowing tubes inside and that giant electro-mangnetic loudspeaker. It seemed like there should have been something moving around in there, some activity, but the closest thing to it was the inner glowing depth of the tubes. They became a symbol of another form of life, another "place" where anything could happen.
Then along came the Knight Kit, the one with larger tubes, 50L6GT and 35Z5GT, and I found myself in control of the signals that pass through air without colliding with the furniture or the family.
I would try to impress people. I would point at the radio and ask, "Do you know where this is coming from?" Of course I meant- "Where's Tequila by The Champs" coming from. People would just ask...."Where?"
I'd point down the hall into the room at the other end where you could see a turntable spinning a 45rpm disk and two glowing tubes nearby with a red wire dangling upward, and I'd answer, "There!"
Nobody ever knew what I meant but the school psychologist said I was normal.
And it's gone.
Hmmmm. Probably just as well.
Bruce, 1020 CC
I pushed the wrong key once.
And I still am.
I went to monitor the CC signal
with my wonderful Sony SRF-A100,
a famous radio because it was
one of the best AM stereo radios
30 years ago. It decoded all of
the AM stereo formats of the time.
Even tho my 1020 CC transmission is
not stereo, the radio has amazing hi fi.
Well, anyway, it's going intermittent
with all kinds of popping noises.
I had been in the process of trying to
repair it's damaged front, which was badly scratched
up and dented years ago. I had been
making some headway, with a cut speaker
grill from another radio and superglue and
plastic. Little by little, the SRF-A100
was looking more and more presentable.
Now I'm going to have to go inside the thing.
This is going to take me a long time.
Bruce, 1020 CC