{"id":7457,"date":"2019-01-09T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/01\/09\/old-station-on-the-air-a-transmitter-half-as-old-as-radio-itself\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:57:20","slug":"old-station-on-the-air-a-transmitter-half-as-old-as-radio-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/01\/09\/old-station-on-the-air-a-transmitter-half-as-old-as-radio-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Station On-The-Air — A Transmitter Half as Old as Radio Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m biased, but I think it is “a thing of beauty.” With some unexpected free time available, today I followed up on my HT-37 work by cleaning and aligning the Drake 2B. I was assisted in this by one of the many great YouTube videos by Alan Wolke W2AEW<\/a>. <\/b>

<\/b> The Drake 2B’s 50 kc and 405 kc oscillators were right were they were supposed to be — no adjustment required. And I don’t think they have been peaked since 1973. The 455 kc IF can was also very close to perfectly tuned. <\/b>

<\/b> Since most stations from the mid-1960s had some QSL cards on the wall behind the rig, I pulled out some old ones and put them up. Many of these contacts were made by the rigs in the picture. <\/b>

<\/b> If we say that 1897 marked the first use of radio, and if we assume that this HT-37 was manufactured in 1959, that means that my old transmitter has been in operation for almost HALF of the history of radio. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m biased, but I think it is “a thing of beauty.” With some unexpected free time available, today I followed up on my HT-37 work by cleaning and aligning the Drake 2B. I was assisted in this by one of the many great YouTube videos by Alan Wolke W2AEW. The Drake 2B’s 50 kc and … Continue reading “Old Station On-The-Air — A Transmitter Half as Old as Radio Itself”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,59,100,31,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drake-2b","category-hallicrafters","category-old-radio","category-radio-history","category-wolke-alan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457","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=7457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7459,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions\/7459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}