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 my dad bought me a DST100 receiver from a local garage for £7. It was
huge and needed 2 people to lift it. It was "attended to" by local amateur Roger Thorn
G3CHN (SK)
and this served me well for several years. I think it was designed for use in tanks in WW2.
In the 1950s and 1960s there was a lot of war surplus gear around and many of us used these as a start in amateur radio. Common receivers were the AR88, CR100 and HROs. These days new amateurs often buy a Japanese SSB transceiver.
See
https://sites.google.com/site/g3xbmqrp3/hf/dst100
1 comment:
G3LEK (SK) introduced me to the hobby around 1972 with an ex WD receiver jacked up with a block of wood underneath it in his cold garage. I was gripped.
73 Steve
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