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Early Radio

oldMohawk said:
As mentioned with pics in post#57 I built a single valve super regen radio and accidently discovered single sideband transmissions on 80metres. I used to listen to a group which included a ham radio guy call-sign G2DAF. He published a design for an advanced SSB receiver known as the G2DAF.

I decided to build it and finished it.
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Hi oldMohawk,

Much respect to you and anyone else who built one of those
very sophisticated receivers (for the time).

That was a pretty advanced project.

Kind regards
Dave
G0ELJ
 
when HAM radios looked like a radios. not just a black boxes.
i build a heathkit and only gave it away a couple of yars ago still working.
 
Dave89 said:
Hi oldMohawk,

Much respect to you and anyone else who built one of those
very sophisticated receivers (for the time).

That was a pretty advanced project.

Kind regards
Dave
G0ELJ
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Hi Dave, yes it was a major job and I soon realised I was near beyond my capability. I vaguely remember problems sourcing some crystals and I had to borrow some test equipment. It was reasonably easy building it on the chassis but testing and set up was very difficult and being just married I could not spare the necessary time.

I used to listen to G2DAF (Richard or Dick) talking on a net to a retired headmaster in St Bees Cumbria. I remember someone complaining that G2DAF has come on without announcing his call sign. He then announced it phonetically as Gaggle 2 daggle aggle faggle.

It was all a long time ago ... :)
 
oldMohawk said:
Hi Dave, yes it was a major job and I soon realised I was near beyond my capability. I vaguely remember problems sourcing some crystals and I had to borrow some test equipment. It was reasonably easy building it on the chassis but testing and set up was very difficult and being just married I could not spare the necessary time.

I used to listen to G2DAF (Richard or Dick) talking on a net to a retired headmaster in St Bees Cumbria. I remember someone complaining that G2DAF has come on without announcing his call sign. He then announced it phonetically as Gaggle 2 daggle aggle faggle.

It was all a long time ago ... :)
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prob the band police,there were a lot of them once phil
 
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