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To: SDR-SI who wrote (4888)	8/1/1999 8:56:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

".. especially having built the first transmitter from scratch, checking it out, firing it up, tuning it up, getting on the air and actually getting someone to answer." My first "from scratch," wound up being just that: It had to be scratched. I wound up building a Viking Adventurer xmtr (50 watts on the final amplifier plate [that's right... vacuum tube plate] stage), and the obligatory dipole at first, too. My neighbors in Bensonhurst loved me for all this, I can assure you... I had to wait for the Honeymooners to be over before they would let me go on the air. I rectified that problem with a handful of RCL type TVI filters I picked up at Radio Row on Cortlandt Street in NY City. Radio Row was subsequently torn down to make way for the World Trade Center. I tell you, the value systems that some people have. There is no justice...