rickert@cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (02/04/91)
In article <16667@accuvax.nwu.edu> prg@mgweed.uucp (Gunsul) writes: >[Moderator's Note: Indeed they are illegal for use on Citizens Band >... >years ago a fellow sold me a tuneable ten/eleven meter rig made by >Allied Radio. (Allied Radio was Radio Shack's name thirty years ago >for you young'uns reading this.) He threw in a bunch of stuff: the Wrong. Allied Radio was one of Radio Shack's competitors. Radio Shack had several competitors, all of whom were (in my opinion) better than Radio Shack. There was quite some choice in those days. Alas the business became non-profitable, probably because of the integrated circuit. Radio Shack bet on computers (with its TRS80 series) and survived. The others (or most of them are no more). Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940 [Moderator's Note: Yes and no. See the next couple of messages for more detail on this. PAT]
prg@mgweed.uucp (Gunsul) (02/04/91)
In article <16667@accuvax.nwu.edu>, prg@mgweed.uucp (Gunsul) writes:
< Pat, a 100-watt linear amplifier for CB!!?? I thought that was
< illegal??
< [Moderator's Note: Indeed they are illegal for use on Citizens Band
< frequencies in the USA; i.e. 26.965 - 27.405 megs. They can be
< purchased in the USA for export purposes only, although a lot of guys
< buy them claiming they will be used only in the ten meter band while
< knowing good and well the amp can easily be tuned to eleven meters
< (CB) with no hassle. For that matter, I think the FCC has banned the
< use of linear amps in ten meters also; they're not fooled! About 25
< years ago a fellow sold me a tuneable ten/eleven meter rig made by
< Allied Radio. (Allied Radio was Radio Shack's name thirty years ago
< for you young'uns reading this.) He threw in a bunch of stuff: the
< linear, a phone patch, lots of RG-8 coax, the Sams Photo-Facts book,
< etc. I never did use the linear. PAT]
Thanks Pat, I'm proud of you! 'Had me worried for a second!
Allied Radio! I remember the thrill of getting my mother to take me
into Chicago to pick up the speakers for my "Sweet Sixteen" speaker
encloser which I built from the plans in "Popular Electronics"! Those
were the days.
Phil - WB9AAX
[Moderator's Note: Then you no doubt remember the big warehouse store
they operated at Western Ave. and Washington Blvd., right across the
street from Olson Electronics (remember them also?). In the late
fifties and early sixties we'd go shopping there on Sunday. Unless you
went in right at 10 AM when they opened you could count on being there
several hours before you got out, what with the sales people having to
call to the back for 'stock checks' and such. Credit approval could
take another thirty minutes (they did their own credit in house) and
you would then wait until your name was called on the public address
speaker: "Townson, go to cashier seven". You'd wait in line there for
maybe ten minutes to sign off on everything and pick up your package.
After Tandy/Allied closed the store, it was vacant for a few months;
since that time it has been a local office for Illinois Public Aid.
Olson Electronics remained open several more years but I guess they
are gone now also. That whole neighborhood is the pits now:
stereotypical inner city advanced urban decay. Nothing around there
now but the welfare office, a couple of liquor stores and the
omnipresent Illinois State Lottery agents. *Ancient* painting on the
side of the welfare office now mostly faded away welcomes everyone to
Allied Radio, open Sundays, HAymarket 1 - 2600, parking for customers
only. PAT]John_Richard_Bruni@cup.portal.com (02/07/91)
Hi Patrick, I see from your postscript to my letter that you shared some electrifying experiences with me ... I got zapped by plate voltage a few times while hamming, thank God not on a linear amp. The best zap I ever got was off a power supply I made for a linear accelerator in high school. This was basically a Tesla coil, but the primary was tuned and drew about .15 amps at 12,000 volts. I was playing with it one day using a four foot florescent tube attached to the proverbial ten foot pole. A lightning bolt traveled down the tube, down the pole, down the *outside* of my arm and under all my clothes where it went to ground through the safety kicker switch I was standing on. The only place I got shocked was where the bolt went through my toe. It left a little black pinhole in my big toenail. Oh, and when this happened I got thrown off the kicker switch, which shut down the coil just before I hit it. I got a second shock from the large static electric field that the secondary coil always built up after a minute or so of operation. This tall but true tail has nothing to do with Telecom, I present it here for your amusement. The coil was designed, BTW, to put out 2.5 MEV of tuned power to a linear accelerator tube, unrectified. The tube was short enough that AC merely made it put out a beam from each end. Vacuum problems put the fini to this project, as well as radiation concerns from the people granting me money to build it. I`d guess that of the 2.5 MEV I was shooting for, 1.5 of it vanished in solid blue corona. The device built up enough ozone in the room it was being tested in to give one a severe headache in only a minute or two of operation, and lit florescent bulbs in several houses nearby. TVI and RFI were problematic as well. John_Bruni@CUP.PORTAL.COM
roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) (02/08/91)
(Ob telecom: Holding on to both wires of a phone line when it rings is even better than casual contact. Learned that when I was only 16 ;-) > [Moderator's Note: Then you no doubt remember the big warehouse store > they [Allied Radio] operated at Western Ave. and Washington Blvd., > right across the street from Olson Electronics (remember them also?). Ah, memories of sweet youth, Pat! When I was just a little electron herder, I used to drool over the Allied and Olson catalogs for hours. (after all, Nome, Alaska had very few electronics stores in those days) The other two standbys were Newark and Lafayette. I haven't seen anything indicating that Lafayette is still around, but Newark is a regular supplier to my place of employment. I was also a Heathkit fan ... built a HW-16 and a digital clock, among everything else. The clock still runs, and will be 20 years old next year. If Heath is still around, I think I'll send 'em a picture of it. Roy M. Silvernail now available at: cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu
allbery@ncoast.org (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) (02/10/91)
As quoted from <16667@accuvax.nwu.edu> by prg@mgweed.uucp (Gunsul): | (CB) with no hassle. For that matter, I think the FCC has banned the | use of linear amps in ten meters also; they're not fooled! About 25 It's illegal to *sell* ten meter linear amplifiers commercially, but legal for hams to alter linear amps for ten meters for their own use. You can also sell them non-commercially (e.g. at hamfest flea markets or the local swap-and-shop net). Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN America OnLine: KB8JRR AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY