A man after my own heart!
Someday I may have to embarrass myself by describing attempts?
at building a spark gap transmitter while in early primary school.
Those encyclopedia entries were just not explicit enough.
Jerry, KE7ER
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On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 04:27 PM, jerry@... wrote:
Once upon a time...
I did ( well, tried to do ) 2M FM with the following setup:
* A Harvey Wells TBS-50D transmitter driven by
* A Heathkit VF-1 VFO
with
* A paper megaphone taped to it. I figured the VFO would FM enough to be "modulation"
for the TBS-50D. Which had a single 807 tube for its output stage. Frequency of the
VFO was multipled by IIRC 18. Power out was 1 or 2 watts. Never did make a contact with this setup, but it was fun trying.
- Jerry KF6VB
