tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656328200489602135.post1285064266590860466..comments2013-07-11T14:08:51.738-07:00Comments on As things use to be: My First Transmitter Multi Elmac AF 67Tanchohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11196129338636347646noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656328200489602135.post-1319329601570843812013-07-11T14:08:51.738-07:002013-07-11T14:08:51.738-07:00Red Dot & Prince Edward.. those were the boxes...Red Dot & Prince Edward.. those were the boxes I got from Dad. Still have 1 R/D panatela box; when I wanna commune with Dad, I hold that old box. My first xmtr was built on a tapered-side bread pan - I thought it was very cool, as you could "easily view the meter with no parallax", and as the sports-car magazines used to say "the controls fell readily to hand". It was a 6AG7 and a 5Y3, with a coil, wound from the scavenged wire from a discarded transformer, found in the neigbor's trash (do you have any idea how long it takes to unwind a transformer WITHOUT taking the laminations apart?) Mom gave me hell when she discovered what happened to her bread pan.<br /><br />tom - W0EAJTom Daileyhttp://www.daileyservices.comnoreply@blogger.com