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Well, it's in the log...the first QSO. Tonight I worked Lou, VE3AWA, on 3565. We were 549-559 both ways and had a nice contact going unt...

After a little debugging it works! When I first put power to my version of Ross Hull's Hartley transmitter I could only get it to osc...

Except for a couple of coil clips my clone of Ross Hull's 1928 Hartley is complete. It's ready for power and checkout.

Today we have surface-mount-technology, before that we had pin-in-hole printed circuit cards, before that point-to-point wiring and before t...

Working through this project has given me a new appreciation of the homebrewing skills of many of the hams during the twenties and thirties....

That pile of old parts, wood and copper tubing is starting to look like a transmitter. The eight parts left are mostly to be wired into plac...

With (plexi)glass rods ordered and one additional National DX capacitor in the mail from a friend the next step is some table saw time.

After seeing my 1934 transmitter a friend asked if I was doing anything special for the Bruce Kelley Memorial 1929 QSO Party coming up in D...

This last weekend we planned a campout at Frontenac State Park . We've picniced there several times but have never camped over night. No...

Remember the safety problem with my 1934 transmitter? Two of the phone plugs is for metering and the third is for the key. If, in the heat o...