Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

In the early 1960s my dad bought a DST100 (ex tank radio from) a local garage. It was deaf and weighed a ton. We took it to a local amateur ...

Way back in the early 1960s, my very first communications receiver was a war surplus DST100 bought for £7 from a local garage. It was huge...

We all have a tale to tell about how we started. Although I had been interested for several years, my interest was really started when m...

My first "proper" HF receiver was some beast! It was a DST100 which covered from 50kHz to just over 30MHz. It took 2 people to l...

In the years following WW2, there were plenty of surplus transceivers and receivers around, often in "as new" condition. Also, m...

My very first communications receiver weighed a ton (it took 2 people to move it!) and was a DST100 . I believe it was made by Murphy during...