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Chevy's 1987 MS-DOS 'Build And Price' Program Was Totally Rad 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 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 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! "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 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 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! [ 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 [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 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 [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
Hallicrafters SR-150 Tech Notes [ Walt Cates, WD0GOF, is probably THE authority on these awesome transceivers. I was fortunate enough to have him go through my SR-150 a few years back. ]More SR-150 rigs were produced than any other SR series rigs. There were 7 production runs from 1960 – 1965. Documentation on production run 4 authorizes the purchase of parts and build of 250 units.... READ MORE	UncleBrad 01/27/2020	Friends
Retrocom Vintage CB Site [This site has been around since 1998, when I started the original Hallicrafters Collectors Association (HCA). If you like vintage Citizen's Band radios, and want to know more about their history, this is still the go-to site. Glad to see it's still out there!]Welcome to our site we call RetroCom, a collection of images and articles over ten years in the making. Thanks to all w... READ MORE	UncleBrad 01/11/2020	Friends
UFO On a Stick [Does this remind anyone else of the The Gods Must Be Crazy?]Stargazers have already mistaken SpaceX’s Starlink satellites for alien spacecraft. Now, CEO Elon Musk says the devices used to connect to the micro-sats will look like UFOs, too.The Starlink Terminal will look like “a thin, flat, round UFO on a stick,” Musk tweeted on Tuesday, noting that users... READ MORE	UncleBrad 01/09/2020	Technology
WK5R Circuit Boards Welcome to Wk5r Circuit Boards where we Design and sell Upgrade circuit boards for the Power Supplies for most tube type amateur radio transceivers and amplifiers except Alpha and Harris. We also repair the Power Supplies and amps except for Alpha and Harris. These boards come Boards only, kit form, Completely assembled, or we can install them for you. The installed option requires that you make a... READ MORE	UncleBrad 12/08/2019	Resources
Dongle a DIY Radio Telescope! A young friend recently spent a week learning about radio astronomy at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. His experience prompted me to ask: How big a radio antenna would you need to observe anything interesting? It turns out the answer is a half meter across. For less than US$150 I built one that size, and it can easily detect the motions of the spiral arms of the Milky W... READ MORE	UncleBrad 10/01/2019	Technology
AM Window Nets List (Provided by the AM Window Web site. Cannot vouch for how often it is updated.)Nets are listed by day of the week, starting with those held daily.... READ MORE	UncleBrad 09/13/2019	Resources
COBOL turns 60: Why it will outlive us all The credit for coming up with the basic idea goes not to Grace Hopper, although she contributed to the language and promoted it, but to Mary Hawes. She was a Burroughs Corporation programmer who saw a need for a computer language. In March 1959, Hawes proposed that a new computer language be created. It would have an English-like vocabulary that could be used across different comput... READ MORE	UncleBrad 09/09/2019	Technology
The Moon Tube: 1969 televisions What better to watch the Moon landing on than your brand-new 1969 television set?RCA, Magnavox and Zenith all debuted new TV lines that year, each with their own unique selling point. Televisions themselves were no longer novel by 1969 (not even colour ones), and so manufacturers were forced to develop new features that could potentially entice people to part with even more of their hard-earned ca... READ MORE	UncleBrad 09/05/2019	Friends
Sarnoff vs Farnsworth: The Battle for the Tube. Philo Farnsworth hadn’t had much of a choice. He needed money in order to pursue his invention, and that was the only offer on the table. Investing in television would seem like a no-brainer today, but at its birth it was considered an extremely risky investment – not only had inventors been chasing the dream (and spending money) for over two decades, but they still hadn’t adequa... READ MORE	UncleBrad 09/05/2019	Technology
Celebrating the CRT The Tube was everywhere, and its influence over western society would only continue to grow toward the end of the 20th century, as multiple-television households, computers and video-game consoles became increasingly more commonplace, until being fully replaced by LCD displays in the early 21st. I can’t imagine what the world would have been like without the Tube – or maybe I can.... READ MORE	UncleBrad 09/05/2019	Technology
Technology that changed us: The 1970s In this 50-year retrospective, we're not just looking at technology year by year, we're looking at technologies that had an impact on us, paved the way for the future, and changed us, in ways good and bad.... READ MORE	UncleBrad 09/04/2019	Technology
N8FQ Novice Rig Roundup Sked Page The GUI is a bit quirky, security-compromised and antiquated, but this site appears to support (along with SKCC) the Novice Rig Roundup. You can arrange for skeds with online messaging. To create your profile, you have to log in (!). Just make up a password and you're in.... READ MORE	UncleBrad 08/26/2019	Friends
W6CAW Swan Page Former Cubic employee shares some of his experiences and Swan products.... READ MORE	UncleBrad 08/14/2019	Friends
History of Windows OS in Screenshots Windows -- originally codenamed Interface Manager -- was announced by Bill Gates in 1983, but didn't ship until 20 November 1985. Its first incarnation was as a front end for Microsoft's command-line DOS, or Disk Operating System.Windows 1.0 could only support tiled windows, but had desktop features such as the MS-DOS Executive file manager, Calendar, Cardfile, Notepad, Terminal, Calculato... READ MORE	UncleBrad 07/03/2019	Technology
Kentucky Phone Net I check into the Kentucky Phone Net whenever I can. This is the best bunch of ladies and gentlemen on the air, and have a lot of good friends down there. The KY Phone Net has been around a long time - 1949, in fact - precisely because these are good folks with a gracious, helpful attitude. ... READ MORE	UncleBrad 06/29/2019	Friends
Dan's Small Parts Dan's Small Parts has been around for years. He has positively the WORST web site on the planet, but some of the best process on hard-to-get components (including inductors, NPO capacitors, mylar capacitors, older ICs and transistors) meters and much more. All the cool guys can repair radios and TVs, and this is certainly a go-to site.... READ MORE	UncleBrad 06/23/2019	Resources
NH Honors BASIC Language New Hampshire has installed what appears to be the first historical highway marker honoring computer programming, according to the Concord Monitor. The new sign honors BASIC, Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a programming language that was invented at Dartmouth College in 1964.The sign itself is located on New Hampshire Route 120 — a short distance away from ... READ MORE	UncleBrad 06/17/2019	Technology
ENIAC Operating Manual A look at the ENIAC Operating Manual, published 75 years ago this month, reveals just how difficult it was to program the world's first electronic general-purpose computer and how frustrating it must have been for its programmers....These days as soon as any piece of electronic equipment starts to malfunction there's the temptation not to fix it but to replace it - the replacement will pro... READ MORE	UncleBrad 06/10/2019	Resources
America's Rural Radio Stations Are Vanishing Lucke pulls on a Steeler’s jacket and a baseball cap over brown hair that falls halfway down his back, and leads me across the five-acre yard. Out here, 90 miles east of Tucson, the desert is a long sweep of brush the color of beach sand. Lucke seems to slip through the rainy day like a ghost.The radio station, whose call letters are KHIL, has long been the daily soundtrack for this frontier... READ MORE	UncleBrad 06/08/2019	Old Time Radio (OTR)
‘Robots’ Are Not 'Coming for Your Job'—Management Is As my old TV repair mentor, Charlie Percifield, used to observe: "The smeller's the feller."Listen: ‘Robots’ are not coming for your jobs. I hope we can be very clear here—at this particular point in time, ‘robots’ are not sentient agents capable of seeking out and applying for your job and then landing the gig on its comparatively superior merits. &lsqu... READ MORE	UncleBrad 06/04/2019	Technology
Radio Locator Welcome to Radio-Locator.com, the most trusted radio station search engine on the Internet. We have links to over 15,300 radio stations' web pages and over 11,000 stations' audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.Just enter your zip code, and be amazed at what you can listen to!... READ MORE	UncleBrad 05/20/2019	Resources
WB4IUY's Cushcraft Tribander Restoration Notes David has a lot of useful information for Cushcraft tribander owners.... READ MORE	UncleBrad 05/14/2019	Repair & Restoration
Boatanchors Unlimited Net The Finest Hour of Ham RadioEvery Wednesday at 7:30PM CST on 3.870 MHzCheck this site out for audio of all the nets!... READ MORE	UncleBrad 05/08/2019	Friends
Building the System/360 Nearly Destroyed IBM Instead, the S/360 proved to be the most successful product launch ever and changed the course of computingA short list of the most transformative products of the past century and a half would include the lightbulb, Ford’s Model T—and the IBM System/360. This mainframe series forever changed the computer industry and revolutionized how businesses and governments worked, enhancing produ... READ MORE	UncleBrad 05/01/2019	Technology
1972 Swan Spring Catalog If you own Swan products, you'll love this catalog. Arguably, Swan's best products are found here, including accessories and antennas.If you have the Swan twins, the 600R & 600T, there is a lot of information here.A big thanks to Andrew, KD5PUR, for sending me a copy of this catalog. Unfortunately, the ravages of time had taken its toll on that copy, but I was able to ... READ MORE	UncleBrad 04/28/2019	Resources
1973 Trigger Electronics Catalog Here are a few selected pages from the 1973 Trigger Electronics catalog. Trigger Electronics was based out of River Forest, IL and was full of ham and CB gear, two-way accessories, audiophile products, kits, books and test equipment. As a teenager, I would wear out these magazines - dreaming - but never had the money to order from them.... READ MORE	UncleBrad 04/28/2019	Resources
Burstein-Applebee Spring Flyer, 1975 Thirty fun-filled pages of Super Values for the vintage electronics enthusiast! I received this in the mailbox in 1975, around the time I graduated from high school. I'm not sure how many of these flyers have survived, but this one is in excellent condition. Enjoy!... READ MORE	UncleBrad 04/28/2019	Resources
The Radio Shop The guys on the FoxTango reflector all agree: Buddy's videos on the FT-101 series are a treasure. If you have a Yaesu hybrid, you WILL pick up some valuable knowledge here.... READ MORE	UncleBrad 04/26/2019	Resources
Indiana Area Nets (80-2 Meters) Larry, WB9FHP, maintains a comprehensive list of daily and weekly nets on the HF and VHF bands in the Indiana and surrounding states.... READ MORE	UncleBrad 04/19/2019	Friends
The Razor Blade Radio Bob, W9RAN, has scanned and made available to all Boys Fun Book - Things to Make and Do, which contains instructions on building the "Foxhole Radio" (constructed with a razor blade). I remember Dad told me about these, but I've never seen a working example. Bob and his father successfully built one. ... READ MORE	UncleBrad 04/19/2019	Technology
AA8V Projects Dr. Greg Latta, AA8V, shares information and pictures of his projects. He's inspired others, because a nice version of his 6x2 Superheterodyne Receiver showed up on EBay.... READ MORE	UncleBrad 03/31/2019	Friends
Fair Radio Sales Fair Radio Sales has been around since 1947. When I was a kid, I used to get their catalog, which had boatloads perplexingly ugly early GE VHF gear (AKA: Highway Patrol). Very reasonable prices on R-390s, Collins, Hammarlund and other receivers, parts, manuals, tools and lots more. You can order online.... READ MORE	UncleBrad 03/27/2019	Friends
Some Stoner CB History Bob Nickels, W9RAN, shares some knowledge about the rare and desirable Stoner SSB Citizen Band products.... READ MORE	UncleBrad 03/26/2019	Resources
Nationwide Radio & Eq. Sales Featuring Vintage & Used Amateur Radio Gear, Restoration Parts, and Many Hard to Find Items . Swan and Drake power supply rebuild kits, receivers, transmitters, T/R relays and other cools stuff - including an HT-9 that belonged to Bill Halligan himself.... READ MORE	UncleBrad 03/17/2019	Friends
Preserving Arvin In 1919, Q.G. Noblitt, Frank Sparks, and Al Redmond formed a small manufacturing business then known as the Indianapolis Air Pump Company. Later known as Indianapolis Pump & Tube and then Noblitt-Sparks, it took on the name Arvin in 1950. In 2000, after a merger with Meritor, Inc, it became ArvinMeritor for a few years. But then, sadly, Arvin disappeared from the name as well... READ MORE	UncleBrad 03/15/2019	Friends
Advanced Plating - The World's Finest Chrome! This plating, polishing and powdercoating is highly-rated by the best restorers. They are located in Nashville, TN.... READ MORE	UncleBrad 03/15/2019	Resources
John & Jean: Antique Radio Collectors Sales, restoration/service, buy, sell & trade vintage radios.... READ MORE	UncleBrad 03/15/2019	Friends
TOTALLY TUBULAR There was once a time in this nation's history that involved many historical events including industrial and technical advances which required electronics. During the early era of this electronic age, the vacuum tube was at the core of such advancements.With all the modern day conveniences we currently enjoy, most of their heritage can be traced to the vacuum tube.It is with the greatest... READ MORE	UncleBrad 03/15/2019	Technology
Straight Key Century Club My SKCC# is 5695. The Straight Key Century Club (SKCC) is the fastest growing group of mechanical-key CW operators in the world. First organized in January 2006, our club has grown rapidly to include thousands of licensed amateur-radio operators from all corners of the globe.Here's how it works:-- Membership is free.-- SKCC numbers are issued for life. Once you get it, it's your... READ MORE	UncleBrad 03/05/2019	Resources
Color Television in 1928! Color Television: 1928!John Logie Baird of Scotland was the first to demonstrate television in full color. He accomplished this in Glasgow, Scotland on July 6, 1928. In commemoration of the 70th anniversary, I [Peter F. Yanczer, K0IWX, SK] have developed a very similar camera and receiver, based on written information by John L. Baird, and J. ... READ MORE	UncleBrad 03/04/2019	Old Time Radio (OTR)

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