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Hi Guy,

Sorry, I just realized that I failed to answer your email.? Seems to happen more often than I like.
YES, I've always loved homebrewing radio stuff.? First got my interest in 1953 (I'm 80 now) when a neighbor gave me an old defunct console radio that he was going to toss out.? I was 10 years old and knew nothing about radio.? But I dragged it home and played with it.? Burnt my fingers on hot tubes and it threw me across the room a few times when I touched things I shouldn't. Don't know what I did, probably a loose wire or tube in a dirty tube socket but I got that beast playing.? WOW, BBC London, Quito Ecuador and so forth.? Those stations were a LOOOOONNNNNG way off.? I was hooked!

I've built many many different radios, bought many 'junkers' and fixed them and sold/swapped them.? Probably hundreds if the truth be known.? Don't do as much now-a-days, fingers being stiff and sometimes? painful due to RA (arthritis).?? But I'm not going to let me get it down :)

Anyway Guy (had an Uncle on mom's side named Guy).? Keep on doing what you enjoy most and keep us posted about all those Softrocks.

<>< 73 From "The Beaconeer's Lair" ><>

Specializing in DXing NDBs (Longwave Beacons)
Phil, KO6BB,

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EQUIPMENT:
YAESU: FTDX-101MP Xceiver, Dual SDR Receivers (~2020)
YAESU: FTDX-3000 Xceiver, DSP IF, 300Hz Roofing filter (~2019).
Portables: Eton Elite 750, AKA Grundig Satelite 750 (2020)
Sangean ATS-909X2 (2021), Tecsun PL-990 (2021)
SDRs: Perseus, Softrock II LF
ACC: MFJ-993B Auto Antenna Matcher.
HOMEBREW 4 Port Antenna Multicoupler, Feeds 4 RX's.
HOMEBREW Tunable LF-MF Pre-Amp.
Ratzlaff 440Hz, 6.5Hz BW Audio Filter
Autec Research QF1 Audio Filter.
ANTENNAS: 88 foot Long Ladder-line fed dipole, ~35 feet AGL for MW/HF.
Top Loaded Tee (Dipole fed as single element).
Butternut HF-6V 6 Band Vertical, ~12 Feet AGL for 75-10M
Ratzlaff Active whip, 5 Foot Long, ~22 Feet AGL For LF/MW/HF.
Wellbrook ALA1530LN Loop For LF/MW/HF at ~17 Feet AGL
Discone at ~35 Feet AGL For Scanner
QTH: Merced, California, 37, 18, 37N 120, 30, 6W CM97rh