Yes, those were the days Mal... I had an old Adcola when I was a
teenager. The "front end" looked like a long coil of steel wire and the
handle was a "phenolic paper" tube which got so hot I needed a glove to
hold it! :-) I am too young to have enjoyed the really good old days of
radio (born 59) but I built my first crystal RX on a 30x50cm plywood
board at the age of 7, I think the "active device" was an OA79, and two
years later I built my first phonograph amplifier in a plastic icecream
container. Crystal pick-up, DL96 pentode powered by three 22.5V
batteries + 1.5V heater and 1kOhm headphones...
It didn't have 200 buttons, not a single button actually, only a 1 meg
potentiometer for "volume" but I was soooo happy! :-)
hamilton mal wrote:
> G2AK in Birmingham had Adcola soldering irons
> for 1 pound and 2 pence, the solder was free.
> Those were the days and every radio amateur was
> chattering away in morse
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