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	Chevy's 1987 MS-DOS 'Build And Price' Program Was Totally Rad Category: Technology If you go to pretty much any car company’s website in 2020, you’ll find a “build-and-price” page where you can pick colors and options for any model, see how specs look and get an MSRP. That’s been around for ages, but you might not have seen an older example of a digital car configurator than this incredible “Chevtech Disk Drive” MS-DOS program from the &...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 07/13/2020	Technology
	Homebrew Hallicrafters HA-7 XTAL Calibrator Category: Repair & Restoration Having recently scored a vintage Hallicrafters SX-122, one of the best Receivers Hallicrafters ever made, I was dismayed to find it was missing the HA-7 Crystal Calibrator. By themselves, they are very rare, and go for probably as much as the whole radio on Ebay when one does show up.I downloaded the HA-7 manual from BAMA (It was part of the SX-122 manual) and surmised what it would take to build ...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 05/26/2020	Repair & Restoration
	Rob Wagner, VK3BVW Category: Friends Let's face it: for technologists, Hams generally have crappy web sites.  Not this one.   As a professional developer, my hat is off to this Aussie.  Lots of great content. for the vintage enthusiast and Shortwave/Mediumwave DXer....  READ MORE	UncleBrad 04/07/2020	Friends
	73 Magazine - Free Online! Category: Friends "There are many interesting Swan modification articles available in the back issues of 73 magazine for free download.  The old 73 magazine archives also contain a lot of useful information on other amateur radios and amateur radio related related topics as well. Since we're all sitting around the house these days, it can provide some additional topical reading material."73 ...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 04/02/2020	Friends
	Just Radios Category: Friends We specialize in high voltage capacitors and resistors for tube radios / electronics. We sell high voltage film capacitors, high voltage electrolytic capacitors, silver mica capacitors and AC-rated line filter safety capacitors for tube electronics. We carry 630 volt & 1600 volt Orange Dips and 630 volt, 1000 volt & 6000 volt tubular a...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 03/10/2020	Friends
	D-Lab Electronics Category: Friends Terry, N6TLU, is truly committed to the vintage radio art.  You'll find lots and lots of first-rate YouTube videos from within his D-Lab headquarters, where he repairs and updates classic gear.  If you have a DX-60, you need his mods - and don't forget to grab an official wine glass....  READ MORE	UncleBrad 03/07/2020	Friends
	Delphi Turns 25! Category: Technology [ The Delphi language is proof positive that all the best things are not necessarily household names.  Not only was Borland's Delphi OOP language (ObjectPascal) superior to every compiled, client-executable solution out there from vendors like Microsoft and PowerBuilder, its IDE was years ahead of its time.  To this day, I compare all the languages I run into to this groundbreaker.&n...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 02/17/2020	Technology
	W9RAN's W6IQY Homebrew SSB Transceiver Category: Friends [Bob, W9RAN checked into the Feb 9, 2020 20M Vintage Sideband Net and sounded great with this one-of-a-kind hombrew piece.  Click on the link above for all the details and lots of pictures.][This] is a three band rig, 80, 40 and 20M, as was popular during the first half of the 1960s when sunspots were low and the money saved helped make SSB more affordable.   It has a fifteen t...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 02/09/2020	Friends
	The Hack That Saved Apollo 14 Category: Technology How on Earth do you patch the software on a computer orbiting the Moon?  Very carefully. ...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 02/03/2020	Technology
	The Geocities Archive Category: Technology [I started professionally developing Web applications back in 1996, where MIDI music, dancing babies, unicorns, insane colors and animated gifs kicked off what has now become a very different (and sometimes very dark) place to "surf" with your morning coffee.]Geocities was one of the first places your average person could make a website for free. The Geocities Gallery aims to a...  READ MORE	UncleBrad 02/03/2020	Technology