{"id":7135,"date":"2010-12-20T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/12\/20\/al7rvs-zenith-transoceanic-from-vietnam-days\/"},"modified":"2010-12-20T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T00:05:00","slug":"al7rvs-zenith-transoceanic-from-vietnam-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/12\/20\/al7rvs-zenith-transoceanic-from-vietnam-days\/","title":{"rendered":"AL7RV’s Zenith Transoceanic from Vietnam days"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Bill,<\/span><\/p>\n

Glad the junk box is providing useful. Enjoyed your Blog about the great <\/span>Ham Radio day<\/span> you had. I got the same feeling when my Paraset 350v <\/span>power supply<\/span> came alive without letting any of the all important ‘smoke’ out. I did get ‘bit’, and had a flashback to the days of my youth that involved my Weller <\/span>Soldering gun<\/span> and a GE tube manual. I tried to build every circuit in the back of the manual and got ‘bit’ by most of them. Heck the shocks keep our batteries charged right?<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m side tracked on a project to construct a 455Kc BFO for a Zenith Trans-Oceanic 3000-1. I purchased the radio at the Tan Son Nhat BX\/PX during my first month in country. (~68). The radio spent a year in <\/span>Vietnam<\/span> and a little over two more years in Thailand. Used to wrap my fatigues carefully around it and pack tightly in the center of my duffel bag. Held up pretty darn well.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve dug the radio back out and am having a ball with it. It’s helping me a LOT with my <\/span>Spanish language<\/span> relearning efforts. But I do lament the lack of English programming on shortwave today. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Zenith<\/span> became our main source for news rather then the much edited and heavily censored AFRN. I would patch the audio output of the radio into a spare MUX channel going off to another signal site and they would in turn patch it to other sites in Vietnam. I head stories that in some camps the local AFRN low power FM radio transmitter feed would be pre-empted with the <\/span>BBC World News<\/span> that was coming from my Zenith. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hey, are you enjoying the cold weather! hihihihi…<\/span><\/p>\n

73 — Natchez Jim<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill, Glad the junk box is providing useful. Enjoyed your Blog about the great Ham Radio day you had. I got the same feeling when my Paraset 350v power supply came alive without letting any of the all important ‘smoke’ out. I did get ‘bit’, and had a flashback to the days of my youth … Continue reading “AL7RV’s Zenith Transoceanic from Vietnam days”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,379],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-history","category-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}