People talking about their experiences at Carlisle, this one is about amateur radio, "back in the day." One year we went to the big HUGE Puyallup WA "hamfest." This thing is just HUGE. It's in the fair buildings, which are two floors and big as a hanger. We had "bought a table" and I don't remember if anyone had anything on it or not........we just wanted in the door.
But hours later, after the "peasants" had been let in, this place was elbow to elbutt, and toe to high heels, I mean it was CROWDED. So someone had an old WWII Collins TCS-12 setup and some of us were lying about how good or bad they had been.
Transmitter on top, receiver on bottom, "dynamotor" power supply at lower right. There were two dynamotors, which are a motor and generator on the same armature. The transmitter one generated ?? 800V or so for the tx PA tubes and the smaller one generated lower voltages mostly for the receiver
ANYWAY this guy is there talking, neither of us has any idea, and he says "you don't maybe have a modulation transformer for a TCS, do ya?"
I told him "I just might, I'd have to look." So we exchanged name/ addresses on scraps of paper. And he says "Didn't I just buy a radio from you?"
YEP. On the "on the air" swap shop I'd made a deal, and the day before we left for Puyallup, I'd shipped off a Yaesu 757 transceiver to this guy!!! And here we were, nose to nose, in the most crowded place you ever saw!! Bear in mind we are on the far left end of WA, I'm from N end of Idaho, and I don't remember, OR? where he was from!!
But hours later, after the "peasants" had been let in, this place was elbow to elbutt, and toe to high heels, I mean it was CROWDED. So someone had an old WWII Collins TCS-12 setup and some of us were lying about how good or bad they had been.
Transmitter on top, receiver on bottom, "dynamotor" power supply at lower right. There were two dynamotors, which are a motor and generator on the same armature. The transmitter one generated ?? 800V or so for the tx PA tubes and the smaller one generated lower voltages mostly for the receiver
ANYWAY this guy is there talking, neither of us has any idea, and he says "you don't maybe have a modulation transformer for a TCS, do ya?"
I told him "I just might, I'd have to look." So we exchanged name/ addresses on scraps of paper. And he says "Didn't I just buy a radio from you?"
YEP. On the "on the air" swap shop I'd made a deal, and the day before we left for Puyallup, I'd shipped off a Yaesu 757 transceiver to this guy!!! And here we were, nose to nose, in the most crowded place you ever saw!! Bear in mind we are on the far left end of WA, I'm from N end of Idaho, and I don't remember, OR? where he was from!!
