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You can spend days exploring here.)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I’m a BARS member who enjoys using and fixing old gear. What Juan has discovered is the appeal of what came before. Before FT8. Before FM and repeaters. Even before single sideband. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Sometimes I feel like I am one of the few club members left who knows how to solder. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Does 468/f(MHz) mean anything to you? Regardless of when you got your license, it should! And it’s in the 1938 Jones handbook. It’s the length of a half wave dipole. So you should know if you’re going out to operate Parks on the Air you might need supports 66 feet apart to operate 40m….so maybe 33’ on 20m might be wiser. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">In 1938 it had been about a decade since hams were thrown off what’s now the AM broadcast band to operate “200 meters and down” - HF. People didn’t realize they gave us the bands which would allow easy worldwide communication by skywave and the ionosphere. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Things were still being discovered and invented in radio in 1938. Look at that Handbook and you’ll see construction articles where a handful of parts got you on the air. Simple receivers. Simple transmitters. It’s like making an iPhone in your basement in 2005. High tech. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">We learn by what came before. That’s important. Even in a day when Venmo buys you a carton full of electronics to do FT8. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Andy</div><div dir="ltr">KA1GTT</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="display: block;" class=""><br></div><div style="display: block;" class=""><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="">Dec 29, 2024, at 4:03 PM, Juan Jiménez <k1cpr@bd5.com> wrote:</div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Picked up a copy of The Radio Handbook, 1938 edition, for a couple of bucks several weeks ago. I started reading it today and realized it beats the ARRL handbooks by a long mile. Easy to read, concepts well-explained. $1.50 in 1938 would be $31.95 today. </div><div><br></div><div><img alt="Radio Handbook 1938.jpg" src="cid:ii_m5a2yi4f0"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>73,<div>K1CPR</div><div>Juan</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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