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Conclusions About W9YEI's Early (1940?) Homebrew Television Receiver
Posted: 20 Apr 2022 04:19 AM PDT
http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2022/04/conclusions-about-w9yeis-early-1940.html
It may have looked something like this. Recent build of the Scozarri
receiver by Jack NeitzJoh DL6ID and I have been exchanging e-mails in which
we compare notes on the early homebrew television receiver of Johnny
Anderson W9YEI. In 1973 on WOR New York, Jean Shepherd described a very memorable demonstration of TV conducted some three decades earlier by Anderson for teenage friends in Hammond
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Young Jean Shepherd Gets Hung-Up On Ham Radio
Posted: 19 Apr 2022 03:34 AM PDT
http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2022/04/young-jean-shepherd-gets-hung-up-on-ham.html
Oh man, we've all been there: OBSESSION with ham radio. Shep went over
the top and didn't sleep all weekend when his homebrew transmitter was
finally neutralized and started to put out a decent signal on 40 meter CW. One of my favorite lines in this episode is about how, before the neutralization, the transmitter had had so many parasitics that it would continue to transmit for two hours AFTER
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