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Arc5 transmitter #1 with variable caps moved up top... note cap in vfo coil can.

transmitter is pretty clean on the bottom

Navy transmitter

 

Scores from W6LQN estate

w6iee garage BEFORE the move

Spectrum Analyzer... I usually don't gamble, but boy I sure did this time!

Homebrew AM transmitter, from SBARC hamfest

antique receiver

 

TRW swap scores, 12/26/09

It took 7 1/2 months and 4 trips to the DMV and $21, but they finally showed up in the mail today!

But the variable caps move nicely!

View from the bottom just after getting the cover off.

w6iee garage BEFORE the move

The last Glowbug of the 2018 Season (with a little creative license).

TRW Preview 10/29/11

 

4-1000 RF deck

As an information-fed consuming American, I may want smoother, cleaner, clearer skin. But I don't want to be a glowbug. I don't want to 'radiate'. I don't want people asking if I've been near any leaky cannisters of ooze! This make anybody else think about Lauren Redniss' recent graphic novel about Marie Curie, "Radioactive"? Radiation poisoning. Nobody wants that.

 

[Taken on Broadway at about 36th St]

homebrew 40m/80m receiver

  

TRW swap scores, 12/26/09

Inside viking II

 

Chino Hills Swap meet score, 12/20/08.

 

R-111/APR-5A "panoramic receiver, aircraft" 1000-4000 Mhz

Move progress 1/24/10.

antique receiver

 

TRW swap scores, 12/26/09

TDE transmitter at Apex Surplus.

w6iee move progress 2/3/10

Move progress 1/24/10.

garage shot...

This one is the faintest to see, but Jefferson, Solomon, and Dad are all there, faintly lit by their "lazer fingers," which were little LED rings with fiber optic strands.

Two receivers... with flash, duh

telephone switch?

Early 1950's Fleetwood TV

I scored a Civil Defense Viking II!!! One of these has been high on my want-list.

 

Chino Hills Swap meet score, 12/20/08.

 

SP-600 JX, 1/24/10

w6iee garage BEFORE the move

Denna is lying in her crib with the lights off, and only her glowbug providing illumination. The ISO is high and the shutter speed is slow, but it provided a pretty cool effect

SP-600 JX, 1/24/10

how heavy stuff ends up in the truck without destroying my back

SP-600 JX, 1/24/10

w6iee garage BEFORE the move

Modulator: 2 12sj7's (if I recall correctly) 1 for each input, going into a 1619, going into two 811's, going into an ART-13 modulation transformer.

w6iee garage BEFORE the move

Arc5 transmitter #1 with variable caps moved up top... note cap in vfo coil can.

TBW transmitter fragment, from TRW swap 3/26/11

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