A little "Off-Topic" Nostalgia Anyone?
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A little different but I loved the 1st 1011D I ever saw just never bought one.
The Siltronix 1011D "Comanche" transceiver?
How about a Shortwave transmitter site from back in the day?
Can’t stop once I start with this old stuff..only reason I added below, not my pictures but I actually worked at the pictured WVIP in Mt Kisco NY in the 70s for a year and a half before I got a real job (!) in both sales and a bit on air along with my 3rd class license taking transmitter readings on this exact 5 kw unit and a remote FM transmitter. The building below was the office and studios. The transmitter was in a separate building. Unfortunately, the studio burned down in 1997 and was never rebuilt. Towers and transmitter building survive today and I believe fed remotely obviously with a much newer 5 kw. That’s it..from me no more nostalgia!!!
Well I did tour the Radio America Site in 1981 ish
I love this old stuff as well. One of my old Ham friends (SK) was the engineer at KELA radio and he gave me the $1.00 tour, not the $.50 variety back in 1998 and things changed quite a bit from the old days that I knew from hanging out around KLOG back in the 70's. They no longer spin records, like they did back in the day, even the American TOP 40 was on record back then, now it's all computer. A guy can now set up a whole 4 hour gig in 15 minutes by placing the songs, commercials, news and talk on a timeline on the computer screen. Also much of the talk radio stations are all satellite or Internet fed with pre-scheduled/timed breaks for local stuff. The romance of broadcast radio died for me the day of that tour.
I used to have one of these back in the day. I really loved it, sadly the clock died and I stupidly got rid of it. It had a good run though, it lasted over 30 years.
I'll have a little time on my hands tonight, tomorrow evening and all day Wednesday. Does anyone have a particular photo or radio they would like to see enhanced and cleaned up?
Did any of you build a Heathkit back in the day?
Yes, but I really do not remember what it was..I do remember it was not complex or big and did not cost much since I had no money and was in the 70s. It was not an sb310!
Hey, thanks for posting the link to those Heathkit catalogs @a727469! I really wanted on of those weather stations when I was a younger man, they still look great, but now you can the same information in a pre-built for much less money.
That‘s a Collins 21E AM broadcast transmitter. I never kept or maintained one of those but I did maintain and send my voice through its baby brother a Collins 20V (1 kW) while I was in college during the late 70’s. It looked like the left hand cabinet of the 21E. BTW, the station these pictures came from was directional as I can see the Potomac AM-19 antenna monitor in the left hand rack.
The station must have operated non-directional during the day and directional at night? Until deregulation the mid 80’s, you had to have a first class radiotelephone license to operate an AM broadcast station while it was using a directional antenna. A third class license with a broadcast endorsement could operate a non-directional station 10 kW or less.
10 virtual points if you can figure out what radio this is...
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Purchased one of these for my father in-law back in the late 80s. He enjoyed listening to European broadcasts. Sensitivity was less than exceptional on several of the bands. Fun radio nevertheless.
My very first radio... It really worked well when connected to any metal part of the family telephone.
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