{"id":5294,"date":"2024-09-06T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/09\/06\/ham-radio-in-the-1970s-and-earlier-with-some-cool-jazz-what-favorite-rigs-do-you-see\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:21","slug":"ham-radio-in-the-1970s-and-earlier-with-some-cool-jazz-what-favorite-rigs-do-you-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/09\/06\/ham-radio-in-the-1970s-and-earlier-with-some-cool-jazz-what-favorite-rigs-do-you-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Ham Radio in the 1970s (and earlier, with some cool Jazz).  What favorite rigs do you see?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DLjrr8Mgu5A?si=V67oehLO6jpIs0vU?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Rogier PA1ZZ sent me this today. I think I may have seen pieces of it before, but this restoration <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>is really nice. But ham radio seems to have been a lot cooler in California. I don&#8217;t remember it being so socially advantageous on the East Coast. See Dilbert cartoon below. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>So many memories: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The video opens with someone working on a QF-1 Q multipliers. We have destroyed so many of these relics, in pursuit of the variable capacitors (which turn out to be not so good). <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; A Drake 2-B on Field Day. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; An HT-37 in a shack.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8211;What looks like an HW-32a in a mobile rig. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Maybe an HW-101. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; A BC-348. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The ATV station with lots of homebrew gear was very cool. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; I also liked the single THERMATRON homebrew CW rig made from an old TV. FB. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The CW used in the video was all pretty good. There was a lot of chirp. This, of course, adds character to a signal. FB.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>After the video, they take a walk down memory lane, looking at ham radio magazines with some cool jazz playing in the background. I saw a Swan 240 and a D-104. The debauchery of the 1970s was evident on the magazine covers. Even QST seemed to be caught up in this. Check out the August 1975 cover of QST. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Anyway, this video was a lot of fun. Thanks Rogier! <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>What favorite rigs do you see? Make note of them in the comments. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiv02Oez2xMgQkpcJWlYNLOg1QzQMIQ2EBaAXl6ls2tG_4zhgV6EH5d5blUql5nXxcVnXynyIU2tm1RYYeDCuP0s61Nxx98r0rKobcS9J4hHTqA3FpwATPlblIr0FRj2LN1jZsSZi8YUqI1u9lIE8BfQPxILnQIYkybqhlwwML4XvSAb6UlaBFvLKuvehM\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"121\" data-original-width=\"400\" height=\"121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image_1753087244.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;\">This video and the Dilbert cartoon reminded me of a discussion we had many years ago about THE KNACK: <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/cry-for-help-soldersmoke-responds.html\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/cry-for-help-soldersmoke-responds.html<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogier PA1ZZ sent me this today. I think I may have seen pieces of it before, but this restoration is really nice. But ham radio seems to have been a lot cooler in California. I don&#8217;t remember it being so socially advantageous on the East Coast. See Dilbert cartoon below. So many memories: &#8212; The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/09\/06\/ham-radio-in-the-1970s-and-earlier-with-some-cool-jazz-what-favorite-rigs-do-you-see\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ham Radio in the 1970s (and earlier, with some cool Jazz).  What favorite rigs do you see?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,116,59,149,166,100,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-california","category-cw","category-hallicrafters","category-heathkits","category-netherlands","category-old-radio","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5296,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions\/5296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}