Question of the day What was your First Ham Radio Novice Rig N6tlu

Good Stuff! 73

Atlas 210X 80-10M transceiver and a Hammarlund SP-600JX-12 receiver

Hand held VX7 - first receiver AR88

Great bunch of folks with a great love of radio! Great video!

first Yaesu HT, FT23. HF was FT401dx, I blew its finals learning how to tune er up. I've been final phobic ever since.

HRO receiver and home made 160M tx

First rig was a Heathkit DX-60 transmitter and an RME 6900 receiver in 1971.

Novice Rig - Drake 2NT and a Drake 2B receiver

Mine was an Ameco AC-1 and Hallicrafters S-107. Found out by installing a 6L6, I could get more output...but then burned out pwr xfmr as it did not like the current draw of the 6L6 but at least I got 5 new states on 40m with it...I finally upgraded to a DX-40.

Terry Great Segment, I enjoyed the story's. Mine back in 1975 was a Drake 2NT With a WRL 775 VFO ( SSSShhhh don't say nothing...) From Trigger Elect on North AVE just out side of Chicago. With a SX110 Receiver and a 40m antenna in the attic. First QSO was my Elmer/instructor about 2 miles away. 73 Greg W7HRC now...

This was very enjoyable and informative. My first rig was a National NC-109 and Viking Valiant II. Way back then I was already collecting boat anchors, including 3 SX-100s that I later gave away to Novices. Wish I had all of them back! 73s!

Mine was a Gonset G77 transmitter and a Multi-Elmac PMR 6 receiver back in 1974. Yes, I did daydream about finding the Gonset G66 receiver to match the G77... never got one, though.... not yet, anyway. I'm still dreaming about getting a set of the Gonset Twins .... one of these days ... :-)

My first rig was a Knight T-60 and a Hammarlund HQ-129X receiver to a dipole, then a 14AVQ vertical. This was in 1966. Harvey, KM4JA

First rig was homebrew single 6AG7 from an old ARRL Handbook. Failed. Ate crystals. Second try was single 6146, also from an ARRL Handbook. It actually worked! Receiver was my Dad's NC-300.

Johnson Viking Adventurer with a box of crystals and a Heathkit AR-3 receiver. Later added a Heathkit VF-1 after I passed General in 1960. Good times! 73, Bill.

Heathkit SB-104, 1976

My first rig was a Viking Valiant ll and Heath HR-10B. Wish I had kept the Valiant...loved that xmtr.

cool stuff.-My brother-in-law owns hank williams 1948 packard. He found it in a junk yard with a big oak tree on top of it. He restored it from the ground up. The junk yard didn't know and he had it confirmed by the drifting cowboy band. He still has it in crossville Tennesse. I have hand polished that thing many times when I helped him in his body shop.

Kenwood TS 820

Heathkit HW-16 that I built myself and an HG-10 VFO that I borrowed.

First Rig IC 735 on loan till I got an IC 718...... First Boat anchor Johnson Ranger from D-labs! That was fun to watch!

Hello Mr. Terry). My name is Alexander(UZ7QAO), the city of Zaporizhia, southern Ukraine.With your permission, I will also share my first experience. my first transmitter worked on medium waves, somewhere at 1100-1300 kHz. it was an auto generator powered by a 6P6C(6V6GT) lamp. I was playing music with a friend then, and all sorts of small announcements between the tracks). This device looked shabby in a cardboard box, the lamp was inside the circuit, there was also a variable capacitance capacitor), and the darkening worked!). The antenna beam is 52 meters long, and the central heating battery is connected). Then I got to the station of young technicians (that was the name of the organization of young creativity throughout the union at that time, there were different modelers there). There was a collective radio station (I don't know if there are such in America), under the supervision of a teacher, you first listened, studied the radio airwaves, or studied radio engineering skills. I started with the UZ-9 receiver (BC-348). Your engineers created a wonderful radio!), and the union copied it))). Well, briefly, somehow. so).

Hello Mr. Terry). My name is Alexander(UZ7QAO), the city of Zaporizhia, southern Ukraine.With your permission, I will also share my first experience. my first transmitter worked on medium waves, somewhere at 1100-1300 kHz. it was an auto generator powered by a 6P6C(6V6GT) lamp. I was playing music with a friend then, and all sorts of small announcements between the tracks). This device looked shabby in a cardboard box, the lamp was inside the circuit, there was also a variable capacitance capacitor), and the darkening worked!). The antenna beam is 52 meters long, and the central heating battery is connected). Then I got to the station of young technicians (that was the name of the organization of young creativity throughout the union at that time, there were different modelers there). There was a collective radio station (I don't know if there are such in America), under the supervision of a teacher, you first listened, studied the radio airwaves, or studied radio engineering skills. I started with the UZ-9 receiver (BC-348). Your engineers created a wonderful radio!), and the union copied it))). Well, briefly, somehow. so).