brought into our seems and I Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Over the Internet. And I've rebroadcast on about 600 or 700 low-power and micro-broadcasters in the United States and Canada. And in all of that tremendous audience, I know without any doubt that there are really experts out there who know all about radio. Much more probably than I ever will. Now, I'm not talking about broadcasting like I'm doing right now. Because I know, you know, a modicum about that. I'm talking about building home radio stations, CB stations, amateur radio stations. Whether you're licensed or not, I really don't care. That's a matter of your own conscience. Once you understand the law and the true authority of the FCC, then it's up to you whether or not you want to stand on the law or submit to tyranny. That's your choice. But we want to concentrate tonight on building home radio stations that will serve all of us in time of emergency. A network, if you will, of people who listen to the hour of the time, who are educated and conversant upon world events, real world events, and the real forces behind them. We want to be able to talk to each other should the whole structure of Western civilization come tumbling down around our ears. We hope that it doesn't. But we can look around us and see tremendous forces working hard to try and bring that about. Specifically, looming in the immediate future is the big bugaboo Y2K. We've already determined that Y2K is not really the issue, whatever inconvenience it may cause. Whether minor or major, those inconveniences will be solved. And people who are properly prepared have no need to worry. The sky is not falling. But the hysteria and the panic being whipped up by individuals and organizations, not just here in this country, but around the world, could cause some very terrible things to happen. Wouldn't it be nice if we could build a network of CB radios, amateur radio stations, shortwave transmitters, without spending tremendous sums of money? And I can tell you right now, it can be done because Doyle and I have done it here. You see there, there's a lot of old equipment out there. The question is determining which is the best of that old equipment and which we should stay away from. Those are the questions that we want to try to get answered tonight from those of you in the listening audience who knew more about all of this stuff than I ever will. Where do we get tubes for these radios? All of the radios that have been touted as what you should purchase and buy in case of an emergency are the wrong radios. And most of you already know that because we have discussed it lightly. Anything that has a computer chip in it is subject to destruction with a simple electromagnetic burst. It can be from a hand-held unit such as now used by some police forces to stop your car on the freeway simply by aiming it at your engine and pulling a trigger. They can emit an electromagnetic burst that will fry every chip that your engine uses to operate. Same with your radios. Any kind of atomic or hydrogen burst in the atmosphere will cause an electronic or an electromagnetic emission that will destroy all computer chips within a certain tremendous radius of miles. I have heard some experts say that one major atomic burst anywhere above the United States would destroy all computer chips in the country. I do not know if that is in fact true. But I do know that it will destroy all computer chips within a certain radius of that air burst. And so it behooves us as responsible individuals to be prepared for that. Why are we buying radios that contain computer chips? Why are we not calling up the tremendous number of old tube radios that are still in perfect operating condition? And I understand from talking to experts in this field, whom I have contacted over the Internet, that tubes are plentiful. Another question we need answered by those in the listening audience tonight is where do we get these radios tuned up, spec'd out, repaired? How can we get them brought up to standards? And I'm talking about the original or as close to the original specifications upon which these radios were supposed to operate when they were first manufactured. I've got to tell you, there are some good radios out there. We purchased several years ago one of the best Sangian radios available. Sangian is a good brand. I don't care what anybody says or tells you, Sangian is a good modern radio. However, it will not operate after it has experienced an electromagnetic burst. From whatever the source. Now, I've used that radio. It's state-of-the-art. It's sort of mid-range. It's not really expensive, nor is it cheap. And it works really well, or at least I thought it did, until I purchased a Halocrafters S-108. And when I hooked that Halocrafters S-108 up to the same long wire antenna that I had been using with a Sangian, I was amazed. I was pulling in stations that we never knew existed before and couldn't even begin to hear with the Sangian. This S-108 was an old radio from the early 50s. At least, that's my guesstimate of when it was manufactured. I guess early 50s. Somewhere in the 50s time frame. It is fantastic. It will receive AM upper and lower sideband and everything from 10 meters all the way up to 80 meters and a few things in between that I think it's not supposed to receive. And I don't know whether that's because it's out of spec or what. But I'm very happy with it. So tonight, folks, we're going to talk about these kinds of things. Two meter. Shortwave. Amateur. We're going to talk about CB. CB. For instance, we purchased a really, really nice CB radio, which is a Siltronics 1011C. They also have the 1011D. What's beautiful about this radio is it not only receives and transmits all 40 of the shortwave bands. I mean, excuse me. Let me back up there. That was wrong. That was a wrong statement. It receives and transmits on all of the CB, or Citizens Band, frequencies, which is the 11 meter. It also operates on upper and lower sideband. And it receives and transmits on the 10 meter band, which is amateur radio. On the AM side, it transmits with 50 watts of power in normal AM, or the normal 40 channels, and 75 watts on upper and lower sideband. That's measured with a meter right off of our set. So I can tell you it's true. If you buy a modern CB radio, what you get is 4 watts if you're lucky. 4 watts if you're lucky. And if you can find a good linear, you can pump it up from there. A linear is just an amplifier that goes between the radio and the antenna and boosts the power of the signal. Now you may or may not be able to do this, depending upon whether or not you intend to follow the FCC rules. And I suggest that if you do not have a good legal foundation and a good knowledge of why you should not, and be able to apply that and win in the court of law, then you had better follow what they tell you to do. But in case of an emergency, all that disappears. It flies out the window. In an emergency, no one is ever going to hold it against anybody for using excess power over that required by the FCC in order to save your life or the lives of others. No one is going to convict you in any court for doing that. You see, when it becomes life or death, extraordinary measures are called for. And using those extraordinary measures are always forgiven. So, let's open the phone lines and let's see who's listening out there who knows something about what we're talking. The subject of tonight's broadcast. Let's see who in the listening audience can be our special guest or guests. You know, I'm willing to let you talk as long as you want to talk, as long as you're contributing to the knowledge base of the listening audience on tonight's subject matter. And when you run out of steam, we'll take another call and that person can then become our guest tonight on the hour of the time. The number is 520-333-4578. That's 520-333-4578. What do you think about this idea? Do you think that we could build a network like we did of micro-broadcasters across the country? Across this country and maybe even around the world? So that in case of real emergency, whether licensed or not, we can communicate with each other? And I know that some die-hard people out there will say, well, you can't do that. Well, I'm here to tell you we can do it and we probably will do it. And as long as we don't abuse the equipment or the airwaves and as long as we only use it when it's necessary in an emergency, life or death situations and no one is going to fault us for that. 520-333-4578. Let's hear from some of you people out there who are the real radio experts. If you disagree with this, tell us why. we're all eager to get your input. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Let's have a luau Let's have a ball Let's have a luau Fight for it all No need to dress up Come as you are You bring me cola I'll bring my guitar I'll bring my cola Boys will sing We'll have a luau I won't do the thing You don't need to live in the island To have a buttermilk Just pretend you're a patio And I live in the sun Let's have a luau Let's have a luau Let's do it right Let's have a luau Have a luau See folks, I told you that we had all the old stuff I mean, how many of you ever heard that? Let's have a luau Good evening, you're on the air Alright, check it out man You guys talking about transmitting on 11 meters, right? Transmitting on whatever we have to In case of an emergency Where there really is a need to be able to do that Okay, well I operate a citizens band radio station here at my home location I operate a Ranger Communications Go ahead It's a 2950 radio that I'm utilizing it It's Ranger Communications? RCIS And it's a 2950 Barefoot is capable of after modification on the 11 meter band Which it'll go from 26 flat to 32 flat It's capable of 25 watts on AM 30 on sideband It has FM and CW That's pretty good for a citizens band What started out to be a citizens band radio Actually it started out to be 10 meters It's been modified Oh I see You know there's a bunch of radios out there that you can do that with In addition to that as you said You can also incorporate a linear amplifier I myself Am operating a Make or not Hey Paul, can I interrupt you for a moment I ask you to talk a lot louder Our phone patch here is a speaker phone with a microphone about 14 inches away from it Oh okay Well I didn't know if I was going to bleed back through my shortwave I've got it going in the next room Oh you're doing fine Okay As I said I incorporated on my particular station here A Nitra 300 amplifier Which is like circa 1979 or something like that It might even be earlier than that But it's a glass amplifier It uses a 4.6L Q6 It's driving one And on the high stage I can achieve On the peak about 4.25 watts Driving it with Say one and three quarter watts What kind of range does that give you Paul? Well actually the other day I spoke with Australia Oregon, Washington Yesterday I talked to New Hampshire, Jamaica Bermuda, Trinidad This afternoon I spoke from Let's see who was I talking to here It was California Ontario, Canada A place called Woodstock, Ontario, Canada And this is all on the free band They call it the free band Which is above 40 Just below the 10 meter band Which is not legal to operate on naturally But there are a bunch of people out there That you know You say something about the networking of Say micro broadcasts You know the networking of pirates Was like that up until a few months ago Here on 6955 up to the upper side band You know there was radio nonsense And it seemed like every time that Joe Mama got on there There was five or six other people You know and after his program They just had like pirate chat You know and first back and forth It was really a great thing Of course Joe Mama's deceased now He died back in October in a motorcycle accident But you know hopefully there's some other good people out there That'll you know keep up the good work Oh there always is You know yeah Yeah well the FCC's really been cracking down on them I think they had three major busts And like December According to my monitoring times magazine Well we don't encourage anyone to violate the law Unless they have a good foundation in the law For doing what they're doing And according to our research The FCC is extremely limited In its authority and enforcement capabilities anyway Yes to my understanding I just got to the point Where the FCC is so overwhelmed with all this Especially with all the internet stuff That's going on now That would be enough to overwhelm anyone As well as communications Via telephone Via satellite You know TV What have you Yeah how did they get into all of this stuff? How did I get into it? No the FCC How did they get into all of this stuff? I mean their only mandate was to To license And regulate Commercial Interstate And international broadcasting Well that goes back In the early Early years Of Citizens Band Actually You know It was originally 23 channels Yeah But she had 8 channels in there Which were For remote Like Garage door openers When they first started out with those You know All that's Within the 11 meter band You know As you said yourself Regulate You know They are there to rule And regulate you Any federal Administrations that way And I'm not trying to be anti-government And I'm not trying to put you on the spot Oh no Of course not Obeying the law Is not anti-government Unfortunately The FCC Chooses not to obey the law In many instances Well for instance If for instance I mean You look at the frequency That you're transmitting on right now Okay Now I You know I was told that You know It was probably provocation But I really don't buy that You know I really don't I mean There's a station from Mexico That I'm getting On my receipt And then I've got What is it World Harvest Radio Which is just below you guys Okay And there's a couple other stations That are like right on Center slot On this frequency Now the radio That I'm listening to you on Right now Is It's a very old radio But it's a It's a classic It's a Holocrafter SX-96 I don't know if you're familiar with With older Tube type shortwave equipment I myself like Tube type equipment It's solid It's rock solid And if you run it Right It lasts forever That's what we're recommending And that's what we want to talk about Most tonight Yeah Well I would recommend Tube type equipment For anybody that has a lick of sense And is willing to actually You know Work hands on With equipment It's totally hands on equipment Now don't get me wrong It requires a lot of adjustment It requires a lot of patience But the performance Is superior I mean I have a Radio Shack EX-440 Shortwave receiver That's a portable Yeah that's really a Sangian you know What's that? It's a Sangian With the Radio Shack Brand name on it Yeah well this one that I have It just Went defunct on me The other night Man I mean It's showing the frequency Read out everything But there's no receive So I have to send it Off to Radio Shack Now I had a problem With my With my Holocrafter Okay And I went to a local Hand Fest I took the tubes That I thought were toasted And $5 a piece $10 I was back up And running For $10 Wow that's great And you did it yourself Yeah it's dirt simple To work on them You know Whereas if you're running Transistorized equipment You know Yeah you can kind of Poke around And gas here and there And yeah the phase loop Lock is all fine and good It's very nice You know It's not hand on You know You just set it The frequency And you let it run But you're going to Receive a lot more Interference You're not going to Be able to go Center slot You're not going to Have the On mine it's Sensitivity You know Is what they call it But essentially It's RF gain In order to receive You guys this evening I had to kick my Sensitivity down to Oh man I mean I had to Turn it way back down To knock those other Frequencies out of there On that spot Yeah You know that's one of The things that's Really hard to learn When I first started Playing around with my Helicraft there's S108 I learned that the That the key to Pulling in signals The one that you Want to listen to Is the volume And the sensitivity Knob And really nothing else Once you locate The proper frequency And it really Amazes you That you would think That to receive The station you Want to listen to Really well You would turn up The sensitivity And the volume But just the Opposite is true No no yeah You're correct though It's just the Opposite man Yeah Yeah I thought The same thing When I first got it I got this unit About two years ago I picked it up On consignment At a local Ham shop here And I got it For $100 My SX96 Oh you got a Real good deal Well when I was At this last Ham fest over here In St. Charles Missouri It was the Winter fest Where I got the Tubes I was asking a Gentleman that had A table of Helicrafters set up No he had the What is it The 99 And the 100 You know SX series He was missing The 96 For his collection He offered me $200 cash If I went home And got it Not working You know so I'm kind of Thinking to myself Well maybe This piece of Furniture Is worth it Which I mean It would be The last thing That I'd ever do With me part With that radio That would be The last piece Of equipment To go out Of my radio room Wow Well you know Everything's worth Something to Whoever needs it The trick is Finding who needs It when you Want to get rid Of it Yes This is correct I don't know You know If you do much 11 meter Or free band Activity But I listen to A lot of things And doing it On that S108 Helicrafters Is a hell of A lot of fun And you really Have to be Sensitive with Your touch Because when You're tuning One of these Things you don't Have the Phase lock loop Or the Digital punch In thing You have to Set it on the Band And on the As near on the Band to the Frequency that You want to Receive And then you Fine tune On the Fine tune Knob And sometimes When you think That you haven't Even moved That knob You've skipped Two or three Stations Oh yes Oh yes Yes That's where The Extremely sensitive That's where The selectivity Knob comes in On the Particular unit I have I mean I can kick You down Selectivity To 0.5 KC's Up to What was it Up to 5 The notches There are 5, 3, 1 And 0.5 KC's On the Selectivity On this Particular unit Which is Very nice For finding Center slot On a Given frequency There And then Click it Back up To 5 KC's If you Want But of Course When you Kick it Back up To the 5 KC Selectivity It broadens The range Then again Then you get All the Interference And the Adjacent Stations And all That other Stuff Exactly Exactly I find it Operates Best At 3 KC Setting If you Get a lot Of noise In there You can Always click It on the Upper side End Mode And that Will knock A lot Of the Noise Out Yeah I've Always Thought of Shortwave Listening As a Participation Sport And when I First started Out I found Out that Sometimes When I Couldn't Hear Anything If I Just Grabbed The Antenna Between My Big Toe And the Next Toe And reached Over And touched The tomato Plant While scratching My left Ear That sometimes I could Hear Like I To Say Would Be About 150 Feet But The Kick Around This Antenna Is It's A Very Low Noise Antenna You Utilize A 50 Ohm Coax And It Is Fed From The Center Strand Out To The End Of The Antenna You Have A 300 Ohm Ladder Leap Which Is Approximately Five Feet Long And The Center Strand On The Coax Is Shorted To The Shield To 300 Ohm As Speed Points Okay So Essentially What You're Doing Is You're Doubling The Length On Each Leg Of The Antenna And The Shield Acts Is Kind Of It Blocks Out A Lot Of Extra Noise You Know What I Mean Yeah It Works Excellent This Double Bazooka Does A Friend Of Mine Built It For For Christmas As I Said It's Kind Of Wow Do You Think Later On I'm Going To Give The Address Do You Think You Could Send Me A Schematic For That Yes I Could Do That Can I Just Send It To Alan Or Something And Can He Forward It To You Or I Think Alan Is Probably Busy Enough That He Doesn't Need Anything Like That But You Can Send It To To Us Just Send It To The Hour Of The Time Hour H Times In Care Of 101 .1 FM 101 What .1 FM .1 FM PO Box 940 940 Eager Spelled E-A-G-A-R What was that Again E-A-G-A-R E-A-G-A-R Yep Arizona 85925 85925 85925 And We'll Just Stick That We'll Just Stick That In Our Info Pack And Everybody Writes For Information Will Get A Free Diagram For An Antenna Okay Now 904 What Was PO Box 940 Yeah I Was Trying To Do The Consolidated Version Here I Do That From Time To Time To Yeah That's Fine I Could Include A Couple Other Ones Do You Have Any Designs For Zeps Or Anything Like That I Don't Even Know What That Is Oh Really That's More Of A Directional Antenna Which You Designed Along The Line Of Long Wire But It's N Fed Instead Of Side Fed Oh I See What We Have Been Sending Out To People Is The Schematics For An Inverted V Long Wire That That's The The Configuration That Has Double Bazooka And That Works Great Because It Not Only Picks Up The Horizontally Polarized Signals But Also The Vertically Because It's In A Sloping Pattern Yeah We Found The Inverted V Works Really Good With A Bare Long Wire And With What You're Talking About I Can't Wait To Try That Out Yeah Actually It's Along The Same Principles Is What You're Talking About But The Wow That's Neat You See What I'm Saying Yeah By Shorting At The End You Feed It You Feed Points Okay You Have To The Shield For One On The Coax That's Your Feet Coming In Okay And That's Center Strand Center Strand But One Center Strand Goes To The Shield The Other Goes To The Center Strand Left And Right So You Say On Inverted D And Utilize That Those Two Feet Points To Your End And Of Course A Good Ground Is Always Important On An Older Tube Type Yeah That's True That's Very You You Find Yourself Laning Up On It Grabbing On Your Microphone And Try To Talk On 11 Meters At The Next Thing You Know It It You You You You Right Another Little Thing Unplug A Lot Of Time You Can Unplug It And Leviate That Problem In Some Cases Yeah You Know I Learned That When I Was A Boy A Lot Of Things Will Work Better With Those Two Prong Plugs If You Have Problems With It If You Just Unplug It Turn Around And Plug It In Again Yeah This Is Correct This Is Correct Anyway I Don't Know If You Have Any Other Callers Out There Well Great We'll Just Plug Into The Network Yeah Okay Well Check Out Sometime In The Evening Listen On 27515 Lower Side Band And Listen For 911 That Would Be Me Okay It Would Be 911 Joe Mamos Radio And The Northern Ghettos Of St. Louis Alright Paul Thank You So Much Okay Well Happy Dexing My Friend Thank You Okay 73 520 333 4578 Well That Was A Great Call And I Don't Know About You But I Learned Some Things That I Did Not Know Before And Paul Said He Is Going To Send Us The Schematic For The Double Bazooka And I Can't Wait To See It I Like To Try Things Like That Rigging Up A New Antenna And Trying It Out Is Really Inexpensive And A lot Of Fun Especially If you Have Good Radios To Do It With So Let's Hear From Somebody Else Out There We Still Need A lot Of Information Which Of The Old Tube Radios Are The Best How Many Of Them Are There Out There Where Do You Find Them How Do You Get Tubes And We Know About Ham Fests And We Talked About Those Before On This Broadcast All Around The Country And I Guess If You Are Looking For It You Would Never Know That It Happened But You Check The Classified Ads And The Free Shopping Papers And Stuff Like That Good Evening You're On The Air Yes Sir Mr. Cooper Yes Sir I Have A Question On Your EMD Destruction On Radios Does That Cover The Old Time Crystal Sets I'm Not Really A Radio Expert But I Really Like To Know The Information No It Will It Only Affects Computer Chips Oh Bless Your Heart By The Way For The Public There Is A Place In Arizona Called Antique Radio Supply That Will Sell You Short Wave AM Type Crystal Set Oh And Now What Are You Talking About Are You Talking About Those Little Things That We Used To Make When We Were Children Sir The Old Heat Kit Style Things Yeah So Those Are A Little Better Than What We Used To Make Well I Can't Say That I Made My Own From A Heat Kit But I Just Got Back In The Radio And I Heard You Talking About The EMD Listening Device But That Should Help A Lot Of People It Takes No Power Weren't Crystal Radios The First Receivers That Were Built Yes Sir I Think It Based On Some Of The Marconi Principles Yes So I Just Thought I Throw That In The Pot By The Way I I Am Here In Ohio As Soon As You Started Talking About The Radios VOA Kind Of Cranked Their Power And Kicked You Right In The Butt VOA Is Not Supposed To Be Transmitting Right Now Well Buddy They're On 7405 And They're Really Gassing It Up You Sure That's VOA Yes Sir I Heard Them ID Them Well If That's The Case Then They're Broadcasting At The Wrong Time Out Of Band They're Not Even Supposed To Be On The Air In That Frequency At This Time Not Anywhere I Have No Idea About That But I Really Enjoy You Back On The I Lost You For About Two Or Three Years But By God I'm Glad You're Back Bill Well Thank You I Really Am That's About All I Had To Say But I Want To Check Out Them Old Time Crystal Sets Where Is This Place At Do You Know It's Called Antique Radio Supply And Bless Your Heart Keep On Going Brother We Need You Thank You Sir And Thank You For Your Call Thank You 520 333 4578 Is The Number Well There's Two Good Calls I Know There's An Awful Lot Of People Out There Listening Who Know All Of The Answers To These Questions They May Be A Little Shy I Can Imagine Though A Him Operator Or Somebody Who Loves Radio That Transmits Being Shy That Just Doesn't Fit The Mold I Would Imagine That There Are Probably Some People Out There Who Hold Licenses Who Are Just Scared To Death Of This Subject And Don't Want To Talk About It Because They Fit Into The Sheeple Mold Which Is Basically Huge Tremendous Herds Of Cowards That Roam At Will Across The Country Bowing And Licking The Boots Of Tyranny And If That Be The Case Then So Be It We Don't Really Need To Hear From That Particular Area Of The Population Anyway We Support Propagate And Promote Real People Not Sheeple Guts Bravery The Ability To Study And Learn What's Right And Do It In The Face Of All Opposition No Matter The Consequences Simply Because A Deal With The Devil Is Still A Deal With The Devil There Is No Such Thing As A Choice Between The Lesser Or Greater Of Two Evils Anytime You Use And Choose The Lesser Of Two Evils You Have Made A Deal With The Devil Did You Know That Five Two Zero Three Three Three Four Five Seven Eight The Topic Tonight Is Tube Type Old Radios How Do We Set Up Our Own Home Stations Where Do We Get The Parts And The Tubes And Where Do We Get These Radios Repaired Where Do We Get The Radios To Begin With Which Ones Are The Ones To Buy And Which Ones Are The Ones To Stay Away From What Do We Need To Know To Be Able To Operate This Equipment We Need To Hear From You You Make A Burning Man See When You All That War Baby You Are So Pleasing Because You Know That What You Pleasing I Get To Certified When You Are That War Well You Got A Rolling Motion Like We Born A Deep Blue Ocean We Are That Ringing A Sissy I Can See What I Can See Keep Rocking Groove Table Fairy Mo Hard Love I love the way you shake it But baby, baby, please don't break it You know you'll find out handy You've got to look so handy I want to walk with you And I love you too Baby, you've got to use it Don't you know that what you're doing You're able to feed when you walk that way Well, you've got to roll in motion Like we're going to be close When you start that ringing out of the street I can see what I've got to see People are going to go All of the best, the very best of all the old music From all the generations gone by That's what you hear on the hour of the time And that's what all the people in the Round Valley Here in Arizona hear on 101.1 FM Which is our community service Non-profit radio station Run by the Family Charitable Trust Good evening, you're on the air Good evening, Bill This is Steve up around Kalamazoo Regarding the radio equipment Yeah, Steve, can you help us out here? Certainly I've been into conspiracy radio, Bill Ever since the fifth grade Well, I doctored my crystal radio set That my dad got me Trying to be a good dad Because, of course, I was the first child And the instructions obliquely said That it was tuned by this coil And this capacitor, see? So, your average fourth or fifth grader Says, well, what happens if we fool with this coil? And I got the thing on the middle of the 49 meter, I believe it was Shortwave band And guess what? None of the news broadcasts matched up So, if the truth is the truth And the news represents the truth And all the newses were different There was something wrong here Didn't take a fifth grader to figure that out, Bill So, we got a little experience Well, wonderful Sounds like you were a child right around the lines Like my brother and I Who liked to experiment As far as radio equipment Because starting out as just a little kid And my meager allowance Because, of course, that first crystal set Was only the beginning Then we moved up to Kip Super regenerative radios Which the advantage to those things were That if you fooled with some of the parts You could make a darn good transmitter Out of the exact same thing you were receiving on So, that was a lot of fun But, of course, if you had many of them It just turned into radio chaos Apologies to Roger Waters there Be careful about the use of that word kid You could get me in big trouble Oh, that's right Oops, I did the oopsies Hopefully booze, not monster But, anyhow, on to the radio equipment The thing I got into Coming up as a young teenager And financing this whole thing off my allowance Was army surplus stuff Which in the late 50s and early 60s Was amazingly cheap Actually, I'm appalled at some of the prices That are currently being got For what little of that equipment remains Because most of it was scrapped out for parts, of course But, back then I actually used this stuff Some of the top-of-the-line stuff, of course Is still around Like your Collins Series R-390 Which was the broadcast band set Boy, if you ever wanted to broadcast band DX radio Made by Collins That's the Cadillac As far as whatever was done You know, I was looking at some of that Collins stuff on the Internet And I don't think I could even afford To look at it on the Internet It sells for more now than it did New then, Bill I had my first commercially made Not-surface receiver Was the Holocrafters S120 And some of my ham's friends were over And were fooling on the E-Bar network Which is just Or eBay Whatever the auction thing is And it's just fascinating As far as seeing pictures of our old rigs Way back when That, of course, we got rid of Because there's better stuff about But if the issue is now Reliability and serviceability And repair history As far as everybody knows What the bugs are Those old Collins sets These are the commercial ones Or my favorites, of course Were always the military ones There's also another A vehicular set Which had a vehicular Collins It was an R392 receiver And these were digital readouts But not electronic digital readouts It was a mechanical Beater root Sort of arrangement And on the transmitter side As far as stuff That doesn't have any semiconductors And any brains to it At all There was like your Holocrafters Many Holocrafters Transmitters Many Heathkit Types of gear And, of course, my favorite Again, was stuff like ART-13 AM aircraft transmitters Which covered from 1.5 MHz Which, of course, is 1500 On the AM broadcast band Up through about 18 MHz Unmodified And they were once upon a time Available real cheap And are still relatively Inexpensive And there's still a lot of All of that stuff That you just named around I've seen it Yeah, and that's it You know, if the issue Is the EMP pulse protection Which is what we are talking here That was what the Russian military Philosophy was As far as staying with Vacuum tubes For virtually as long as possible Because after the pulse Goes through it It will ionize the tube But then after the pulse Is gone The tube deionizes And in a mass number Of conditions You know, a mass number Of trials Will still be operable Because the tube radios Function on High voltage circuitry Where you're dealing with You know, anywhere from 130, 150 Up to 600 volts As far as supply rail Anything that's solid state Is working at a 3 to 5 volt supply rail So it A, when it Gets the pulse through it It destroys all those junctions All those junctions Just go futz And it's useless You know, Lancet has been Suitably prepared To take EMP pulses Which generally Only high end military Stuff currently is Yeah The Russians are currently Because they stay current With the tubes Just because it was The most economic way To solve the Solve the problem They're actually The foremost producers Of vacuum tubes Both commercial vacuum tubes I was As broadcast stuff As well as Ham and Audio Like guitar amplifier Type vacuum tubes Yeah, I was just Waiting for a break To put that in there And you beat me To the punch Yeah, it's No secret In the electronic Industry, Bill Your copy is The radio copy On the planet Out here in Michigan This evening Is just terrible Normally, of course Record the broadcast And it's been Unrecordable The last Three nights It sounds like You're going to run The power sucker On you Or VOA Has a couple Other transmitters Pointed in opposite Directions And are basically Back splattering You guys Well, you know what They can try Whatever they want to They can never Silence the voice Of truth Well, I sure wish It was back At a good satellite feed Boy, that was just The berries As far as rebroadcasting Because anything That comes over The shortwave You just always have That atmospheric fade To them I just like Good audio Guy I'm sorry Well, we would If we could just Find a reasonable Price On one of the Satellite networks Or You know A Geez I'm trying to Think of the name For it The Trans What do you call it? The service providers Off one of the birds Yeah, yeah, yeah If we could just Find one at a Reasonable cost I mean, since we Were on the satellite Last The price has just Gone up Oh, yeah Because, you know The birds are Good and fried And the replacement Birds cost a lot And the international Bankers want to get Paid for financing The replacement Birds And the Bill Cooper's Program is part Of the mix That probably It probably costs Somebody a big time Yeah, and I think Part of it is to Keep those of us Who can't pay that Big money Off of there anyway Oh, yeah Yeah, you know That's really the Function of the FCC Is to silence The voice of the people Correct Yes, they have to Control all means You know, Bill When I was coming up Just with another Curious radio fact And I'm sure a lot Of other fellow Communications geeks Out there share The same thing When I was Like in my early teens You know, first Getting started In the radio hobby All the guys Were old World War II vets Who, of course Picked up their CW in the Navy And were radio ops During World War II Or Korea Or whatever And at that point You know, we're Talking the late Eisenhower years Virtually all the Communications As it is now Was all totally Tighten And there's always One way All these old guys Always just had Such a bad attitude That the country Is going to hell In the handbasket And there's commies In the State Department And all like this Because they were Alive when This country Was really free Right But the important Thing is, Bill At that point In time It was the Ham radio operators Those old codgers Who had such an Attitude Were the only ones That had at that Point virtually An uncontrolled Communication media To A. Compare notes As far as what Was currently Politically going on As well as Because of their Communications training And networking They're all Like service guys So they knew At that period Of time What protecting And defending The Constitution Against all enemies Foreign and domestic Meant And that's basically I could never Figure that out Why these guys Are always so grumpy And now that I'm A grumpy old man Worried about the Exact same issues I understand Yeah Isn't that amazing Yep Bill, because the Copy was so bad I was back Working in the shop Was there anything Else Old tube type radio Or communications Related As far as Modern state stuff Just let me State my preferences For universal boxes And as far as Your communication Network There's enough Communication Geeks out here When the balloon Goes up You'll be amazed At what pulls Together My favorites Right now Are the Kenwood TS-50 That's normally My receiver That I use To record you Off shortwave Although I As it's Gillian's Other shortwave Receivers That's just On the console The advantage With that thing Is if you cut The green wire Inside It's Continually Received From below The AM broadcast Band All the way up Through 32 Megahertz All mode That's upper Lower AM CW Data And FM So you have A Just by cutting One wire Yes The transmission Starts from 1.5 meg All the way up The rig is 5 5 2,500 watts PEP As far as The three Power levels They're available On the internet At AMFEST For The five To six Hundred dollar Range Depending on What the deal Is And it does Pull out Put out The whole 100 watts Of snot Continually All the way From 1.5 Megahertz All the way Up through 30 I think It's 32999 If I recall As far as On the other Side of the Equation I like The Kenwood TS 741 742 Tri-band Rig Because you Load Three band Modules When the Appropriate Wire is Cut In that Thing It Receives Virtually The entire VHF UHF Spectrum With very Little Gaps In there As far as The modern Scanner The Unidin What is this Thing I got a Bank of Them The Unidin Bearcat BC 895 XLT Is what's Called A trunk Tracking Scanner That When Suitably Programmed A lot Of the Police And government And the City Buses And all That Go into A radio System That's Called A trunking System Where They're They're All Combined Over Multiple Transmitter And receiver Sites And frequencies The problem Is they're All in there Jammed Together That this Radio Is designed To track Like specific Agencies So it Automatically Follows the Frequency And the PL Tones To straighten That all Out Uh huh And uh Now Just counting All this Modern stuff Let's go Back and talk About the Tube stuff I refer to Them Tank Anchors Tank Anchors I've heard Them referred To as Boat Anchors Boat Anchors Tank Anchors Well It depends On whether It's Naval Equipment Or army Equipment Oh I See Now Uh huh Discussing That you've Told us Your preference Is Collins Now Aside from Collins Within the Realm that Most people Can afford What is Your next Best Preference In Transceivers And or Receivers Um Shoot A lot Of the Military Stuff And the One of The earlier Callers Mentioned Antique Electrox Supply Down in Tempe Arizona And they're Just Just excellent As far as Keeping the Antiques Going And hard To find High voltage Builder Capacitors And things Like that The other Place that Used to Be great Because Curiously Fair Radio Sales And I Are the Exact Same Age As are Arnold Schwarzenegger But Nevertheless Fair Radio Sales Has a Lot Of Military Equipment But Unfortunately The Military Equipment That Are In Their Current Catalog Are Not New Five Dollar In The Box Brand New Command Sets That Still Smelled Like World War Two When You Took Them Out Of The Box Their Current Stuff And Current Military Issues Stuff And The Market Is All Being Bid Up By Foreign Governments And Foreign Governments Procurement Agents Inside The United States That Buy Stuff From Air Radio Sales And Other Airborne Equipment Sales Places And So The Market On That Stuff Is Stratospheric I Mean I Got Some Old World War Two Definite Tank Anchors They Are Cast Iron AM Broadcast Low Band Sets That Were Typically Used In White Half Tracks That Made By General Electric And These Things Bill Are Literally Tank Anchors They Are All Cast Iron And Use Circuit That Was Typical Of The Early 1930s As Far As Really Archaic Stuff And A Long Time Ago I Bought One Of These Things For The Brand New In The Box For Like Fifteen Dollars The Problem Is The Thing Weighed Like 300 Pounds And It Had To Be Truck Shipped And The Truck Shipment Bill Was Like Fifty Bucks So It Was Sort Of A Bummer But To Show You How The Stuff Got Military Vehicle Collectors Paper Because People Need It For Their Totally Correct White Half Tracks That's Where A lot Of The Ex Military What Remains Of It Is Now Going Back In Even The Crazy Old Airplane Radios I Never Thought They Run Out Of Stuff Like Command Sets Or ART 13s Or Some Of This Other Stuff For They Just Phenomenal I Mean Fields Full Of This Stuff Time Marches On I Guess It's Now 40 Or 50 Years Later Yeah And Eventually It It'll Be Crumbling To Dust But Right Now Most Of That Stuff When You Set It Side By Side Against Some Of This Modern Stuff Holds Its Own Really Well And Some Of It's Better Than What They Make Today Oh Yeah Well It Certainly Well After The DMP Pulsor Like In The Case Old Heat Kit Or The Old Con Stuff Hey It Still Works 40 Years After It Was Manufactured So That Means It Reasonably Ought To At Least Go Another 20 Years Which Is All We Need To Worry About Bill Looks Like We're Coming Up On The Top Of The Hour I Show You You Got About Two Minutes To Launch Appreciate You Taking The Call And Hopefully We Manage To Spread Some Knowledge Even Though It's From My Particular Perspective Well That's Okay That's You Know We Put All These Different Perspectives Together And We Get An Overall Picture From Which To Make Our Own Personal Decisions And That's What It's All About Absolutely Sir Carry On Bill Thank You So Much For Your Call Number Is 520 3 3 3 4 5 7 8 If You Want To Jump In Here I Mean We're Really Interested In Hearing From As Many People As We Possibly Can Who Really Know About This Stuff Where Do We Get Tubes Who Fixes These Things Besides This Place Down In Tempe And I'm Not Sure They Fix It It Was Sited By Both Of The Last Two Callers As A Place To Obtain Parts You I'm One Of Those Kinds Of People Who I Could Obtain All The Parts I Wanted To But I'm Not Sure That I Could Put Them In A Radio And Make Them Work Except For Tubes I Can Do That Really Well Anything That Plugs In Or You Can Unplug And I Know How To Use A Tube Tester When I Was A Boy All The Radios Still Had Tubes In Them And So When Our Radio Didn't Work I Mean We Didn't Throw In The Trash And We Didn't Take It Down To The Repair Place We Pulled The Tubes Out And Took Them Down And For 25 Cents We Could Test The Tubes At Places Like Woolworth And And You Know Wherever They Had A Tube Test You Paid Your 25 Cents And You Tested Your It Was Brand New That's What I Like About That Stuff You Know These Things That I Have Now Some Of These Modern Things When Something Goes Wrong With It I Can Open It Up And Look At It And That's It I Better Not Touch Anything And I Have To Send It Off Somewhere And It's Going To Cost Me An Arm And Leg To Get A Fix And They Send It Are Really Sensitive For Instance In The Winter Time In Arizona It's Really Dry Which Means If You Walk Across A Floor That Has A Carpet On It And You Touch Something That Has Computer Chips In It You Can Actually Destroy That Piece Of Equipment It Doesn't Matter What It Is It Could Be A Microwave Oven And So You Have To You Learn In Arizona The Expensive Way Not To Touch Anything That Has Computer Chips In It Until You Grounded Yourself And Then You Don't Move Your Feet Until You Grounded Yourself And Then You Do Whatever You Have To Do And Then You Can Move Your Feet Because Every Time You Move Your Feet In A Dry Climate In The Winter On A Rug Or Carpet You're Generating Electricity And So You Walk Up To A Sangian Radio After You Walked Across A Carpet In The Winter In Arizona And You Touch That Radio And A Spark Will Jump And I'm Not Exaggerating A bit A Spark Will Jump A Half An Inch From Your Finger To That Radio And Then It Won't Work Anymore And You Have To Send It In To Get It Fixed Because You Fried It With Static Electricity You See What I'm Talking About Folks And We're Buying These Things To Keep And Use In Case Of Emergency It's Not Going To Work And Folks I Got News For You These Little Bay Gen Radios That You Crank Up Guess What They Got Inside Of Them We're Being Taken For Another Ride 5 2 0 3 3 3 4 5 7 8 You're Listening To WBCQ Monticello Maine USA I'm William Cooper This Is The Hour Of The Time Our Subject Tonight Is Old Type Radios That We Can Listen To People All Over The World And That We Can Transmit Upon You Know Either In One Piece Or Several Pieces Or Whatever Tube Type Radios They're All Over The Place Isn't It Amazing It Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Take care, man. Okay, thanks a lot. I was just talking to Paul folks who called again while that music was playing and gave me some information. So if you want to take your pen and paper and write this down, I've got some good information for you here that Paul called back and gave us. One is a place where you can get tubes. The tubes. The tubes you need for your old tube radios. And that is SND tube sales. The telephone number is area code 314-770-0119. That's once again, SND tube sales. And they have an email address. And they have an email address. If you want to send them email. Here's the email address. And another one. And another one. And another one. And another one. Antique radio classifieds. And another one. Antique radio classifieds. Which I've heard of this before. And so you can write to ARC and get a free catalog. ARC PO Box 802-P14. That's P as in Paul. Once again, PO Box 802-P14. Carlyle spelled C-A-R-L-I-S-L-E. It's Carlisle. C-A-R-L-I-S-L-E. Massachusetts. 01741. 01741. 01741. They also have a webpage on the internet. www.antiqueradio.com. www.antiqueradio.com. Okay. The number is 520-333-4578. We're still on our subject. The subject tonight is old radios that we can use in emergency that won't be fried by any kind of an EMP burst. Okay. You all understand what we're talking about. And as far as I have discovered, folks, they're equal to or better than most of the modern stuff that you can get today. Good evening. You're on the air. Have you ever heard of these radios? I saw them just today called Roberts. Uh, doesn't ring a bell with me. It might ring a bell with some of the people in the listening audience. Go ahead. These are some of the things made in England. And I just saw them on the internet today. Uh-huh. I've never heard of that brand before. And, um, I didn't realize that they made any short waves in these other countries. I thought they were all made like in China. Oh, no. You know, up until the last few years, every country in the world uses short wave radios like gangbusters. We were the only people who ignored them. Okay. Um, now I know they don't manufacture any in the United States except maybe Drake. Drake does. Okay. And they're, but they're expensive radios. They're probably very good. But, um, like. In fact, Drake is one of the last manufacturers in the United States that makes anything in the United States. Yeah. I have this Grundig. I bought it. I didn't know that this thing was made in China. I don't believe I would have bought that. I got it because it said Grundig. I thought it was a German radio. And I, as soon as I pulled it out of the, you know, the way they advertised it, it was kind of like false advertising. You know, German quality, German engineering. Well, the real Grundig was really made in Germany and was a top of the line, top notch piece of equipment. Uh-huh. Um, if you bought a Grundig today that has Grundig on it that was made in China, either Grundig is now doing what most other countries is doing and that's having their, their products manufactured in third world or, or other countries in order to, uh, save money on labor. Or, you've got a piece of fraudulent, you've got a fraudulent product. One of those two. I'm not sure which. Yeah. Can I ask you one question tonight that doesn't have to do with the radios? Sure. Go ahead. I've been listening on shortwave. They've got this, uh, identity message out there. Are you familiar with that? Yes, I am. I don't buy into that myself. Good for you. I, I just don't. There's no such thing as a master race. I don't care whether it's a Jewish guy who claims that they're the master race because they're God's chosen people, or whether it's a white guy who claims he's the master race because really they're the real Israel and the, and the Jewish people are all fake phony and they're not really who they say they are, or whether it's the black power group, or whether it's the Japanese racists, or I don't care who it is. There's no such thing. We are all people. We all have to live here on this earth. As far as I'm concerned, racism is a plague upon humanity. Yes. And I'm confused by those who want to divide us and conquer us and enslave us to keep us fighting amongst ourselves for reasons that, that are so absolutely stupid it's incredible. I'm glad to hear you take those positions because that's the way I feel. And I heard a shortwave broadcast last night and they were just working the Jews over nonstop. It was, I've never heard anything like that in my life on shortwave radio. It may have been on there before. before, but you know, saying the man actually came out and said that all Jews are traitors. I mean, every single one of them. And the program, he may have the free structure right, I guess, to say things like that, but what concerns me is that when people do say things like that, it provokes other people to violence and to do things that are wrong. And that's what really concerns me. Well, I think somebody would have to be pretty stupid to take a message like that and believe it in the first place. For instance, I can prove that George Bush is not a Jew, but George Bush is tremendously involved in the destruction of the United States and bringing about a new world totalitarian socialist order. I can prove that Jimmy Carter is also involved in that. Jimmy Carter is a Christian Southern Baptist as a matter of fact. I can prove that Jerry Falwell is involved in that. Jerry Falwell is one of the great charismatic Christian leaders in this country, who's also an extreme Zionist. The Zionists in this country are mostly Christians who believe that they're the true Israel and thus the master race. I mean, it's just incredible how far off the diving board these people can go before they hit the water. Yes. It's amazing. I don't understand this. It's called stupidity is what it's called. Anybody who actually believes that because somebody's skin is a different color or their eyes look different or they come from a different part of the world, they're not just as good as anybody else in this world. I agree with you. Well, I was listening to you last night and you said you were part Indian? Yes, Native American. Okay, I'm sorry. That Native American has... Well, if that's true, then they would believe you're not a part of Israel. Well, that's what they believe. You should see some of the letters that I get. You should see what they call my children because I'm married to a Chinese woman. Oh, really? Well... Oh, yeah. Well, you know, I used to... These people are dangerous. I used to mail some letters into the editor of the local newspaper where I used to live. And because I have a last name that is obviously people can know that I'm Jewish, after every time I would mail a letter to the editor in, I would get a letter from somebody in the mail who wouldn't identify themselves and it would have a swastika on it. Oh, yeah. And they would try to intimidate me. They'd pick you out. I mean, it's just amazing. You know, they... Yeah. Even though I was probably saying things that they would agree with, you know, like conservative positions. Yeah, well, these people are sick. They really are sick. I mean, anybody who has ever been in a Jewish community know that those people argue so much amongst themselves. How in the world could you ever get them with greed on a plan to destroy the world? Well, yeah, like the man was saying, all Jews are traitors. That's a lie because these Jewish people out there, they're not... I'm talking about the ordinary, average Jewish person you'd meet on the street. Yeah, they're not intertwined with anything. No, they're not thinking about conspiracies or anything. No, they're thinking about feeding their children and keeping their job and putting food on the table and getting laid and having a party and all the things that most sheeple think about. You're right. And they really fall into the sheeple category, to tell you the truth, with all of the rest of the sheeple in the country because they think that everything is hunky-dory and nothing's going on and that they're really not, you know, paying attention. Yeah. Well, you have a good night. And I'm just glad to hear where you stand on these kinds of things. Oh, you should have been listening to me for years because I've had some broadcasts where I've just flat-roasted those people. I don't like them. They're dangerous. Well, you know, whatever it takes, I'm going to do the right thing. I don't care what it takes and I don't care who gets mad and I don't care who gets hurt or helped, even if it hurts me. Yeah, one more thing. I read this book once called The Two Babylonians or the Papal Worship. Yeah. Have you ever heard of that one? Yes. I thought it was a pretty good book, but it was very hard to understand. Well, it is hard to understand because it goes into an awful lot of the old symbology of the ancient pagan religions, which the Catholic Church, or the Vatican, as a matter of fact, incorporated in order that it could entice the people who worshipped all the pagan religions to join their church. And by this method, for, gee, over a thousand years, they literally ruled the world. Yeah. Well, I want to get off in just one second so somebody else can get on. But when I see something in the church, is these letters IHS, they say it means in his service. No. Well, that's what they say. No. Well, they do. It means in hoc signa. It's Latin. Look it up. What is that? I thought it, could it possibly be Isis Horus Seb? No. It means with this sign, I conquer. I conquer? Yeah. So what is the whole meaning of that? I don't... It's the symbol that the Emperor Constantine adopted. Now, I don't care what the church history says, this man was the Emperor of Rome, and he was actually, at the same time, serving as the Pope at that time. He is the one who made the Christian religion the official religion of Rome. And it was because of him that the first council of the Christian church was called, where they got together and decided to adopt the dates and the holidays and the symbolism of the pagan religions so that they wouldn't be constantly at war with these other religions and they could all meld as one. This is probably just making Catholics just go up the wall, but I'm not talking about normal people who belong to the church. They, like everybody else, belong to their church because their parents did. They haven't really studied the history of it, and I'm going to go farther than that so you don't think I'm picking on the Catholic church. I'm going to tell you right now that every single organized religion in this world exists solely to take money out of the pockets of the people and to control them. Yeah. I don't care what you call it. Yes. Well, God bless you, and I hope people listen to you, and I'm going to keep listening to you. Well, thank you. Because, you know, I'm very happy to hear what you said tonight about the, you know, the racism and the bigotry. Yeah, but you've got to understand that it's not just this guy that you heard. There's racists in the black community. There's racists in the Jewish community. There's racists. The Japanese people are one of the greatest group of racists that you'll ever meet in your life, although they are one of the most polite groups of people that you'll ever meet also. The Chinese are, in some aspects, and in some of their populations, not only racists, but elitists. For instance, the Mandarins. Yeah. Well, that's all interesting. I'm going to go on and listen to you. Have a good night. You too. Thank you very much, and thank you for calling. Well, that was interesting. We went way off the subject on that one. Let's see if we can get back somehow, back to the subject of old tube-type radios. So if you're listening out there and you know anything about it, and you can help us with where to get these radios, how much should we pay, what kind should we be buying, where do we get the tubes and the parts, and if we don't know how to fix it ourselves, where do we send them? Good evening. You're on the air. Good evening, Bill. I want you back to the radios here. I have a suggestion. Okay. I need you to talk a lot louder. Put that phone right in front of your mouth and talk real loud. Okay. That's better. I went to an auction. I live here in the Midwest, and I went to an auction and found a tube tester that was there in a box of junk and bought the box of junk for about $3. Wow. You got a deal. Well, I got this Mercury model, 1101C grid circuit analyzer tube tester, which has testing for octopins, seven pins, decal, Magnaval, Nobar, nine, ten pins, Compactron, and some other ones, and a variety of test functions on it, and meter and pin straighteners on it, and to get this for only $3, I thought I just really came out of that thing in a lucky manner, and my suggestion is this, is that a lot of times there are these auctions, especially out there in the farming communities, you'll have people that have old-time items that have been kept around for an awful long time, and now they're up on the auction block because the person passed away or whatever. So if you go to those auctions, oftentimes you can maximize on all kinds of old and radios. I've seen old shortwave radios go for $40 to $50. Uh-huh. And AMF radios go for a little bit less, and you can sometimes even find some old electronic smarts. And of course you'll find other things like wood-burning stoves and all kinds of gardening equipment and stuff like that, but that's a whole other topic. Yeah. But I recommend that the people check out the auctions, see what they're all about, and learn how to work the auctions to your advantage. If you come in there and decide if you're going to buy something no matter what, you may pay out the notice for it. Uh-huh. On the other hand, if you are discreet in what you do, you can get yourself some awfully good buys. So that's my suggestion. I just wish you the best, and God bless you, okay? Thank you very much. Thank you for your call. That's an excellent idea. And I know it'll work because he's absolutely correct. There are some sales and auctions across this country where people want to get rid of their old stuff or somebody dies and whoever's handling the estate has to liquidate it. And a lot of things from way back, you know, just turn up right there. You know, and you might have a chance at one hell of a deal on some really good stuff. So pay attention to that in your area. 520-333-4578 is the number. Subject tonight is old radios for receiving and transmitting on all of the different bands. CB, shortwave, amateur, whatever, just so that we can have some kind of a network and communicate with other people in some of these terrible emergencies that happen without having to rely on somebody else or not having any communications at all. I know an awful lot of you live in areas of the country where where if the primary services were to fail, you would be absolutely cut off from society. So one of your responsibilities is to prepare for that. You know, remember the remember the parable of the of the ant and the grasshopper, the old the old I guess it's an Aesop's fable, isn't it? Pay attention to that. It's true. Good evening. You're on the air. Okay. This Paul, once again, man, you got the email address wrong on the SMD tube sales. I've got a regular webpage for Paul. We're getting some a lot of feedback here, Paul. You need to turn your radio down. Yeah, I'll just walk away from it. And then you need to talk real loud. Okay, here you go. I walked away from my radio. I should not have any feedback now. Is that better? It's good. Okay. Okay. The email, for a full catalog, okay, email address is www.vacuumtubes.com. Okay. That is for a full color catalog of SMD tube sales. Oh, that's not what you gave me a while ago. Okay. Well, okay, this is the one that I gave you a while ago for the email address is S-N-V-T-U-B-E-S at S-T-I-N-E-T dot com. That's right. Okay, you did have the telephone number, correct? I thought you had the email address wrong the first time around. No, we had it. That's exactly what we gave out. Well, this guy, he's a really good guy and he's reasonable. He also has a fax number if anybody wants to fax him. He's located in Hazelwood, Missouri, but his fax number is 314-770-9448. And if there are people out there looking for tubes, he does, you know, he does major credit cards and all that that's shipped worldwide. He will ship the tubes to you. Wow. Okay. So, he's an excellent source. It's the best that I've found for both shortwave. He's probably one of these old guys that live way out in the country under a big old spreading tree and his house is full of tubes, I'll bet you. Well, no, actually, he lives in a subdivision, man. I, myself, I'm a 35-year-old hippie that just loves radio, man, and I look in the ghettos on the north side of St. Louis, man. Oh. Well, when you said Missouri, I could just picture him out in the country with one of these old houses under a big old elm tree or something surrounded by tubes. They do exist, my friend. They do exist. There are places like that and hopefully when I get old enough to retire, I will find one sitting on maybe a couple hundred acres of land and have some cows walking around and I could say, come on, doggy. You know, and then retire back to my radio room or my shack or whatever late at night and listen to people like yourself, man. I'm enjoying the programming. Oh, good. Great. You know about the racist kind of business there, you know, that's not my ball of wax, man. You know, I get enough of that here in the ghetto, man. Being the proverbial marshmallow on a sea of hot cocoa you would, for lack of better words. Well, you know, a lot of the black community is beginning to understand how racism is being used against them and against us in order to enslave us all. and they're starting to wake up. You are correct. You are correct because I find it more and more increasingly so that a lot of, you know, the black community as you put it, you know, they're not all the same color. They have varying shades just like myself, you know. They don't like it but they see my child playing with their children and they kind of say, well, this guy, I guess he must be alright because he lets his kid play with our cats. Sure. You know, if nobody would teach this nasty stuff to children, it wouldn't exist because children don't go out and even think of that kind of stuff. Okay, well, I think my calling card is totally up now. I just heard a tone. I'm sorry we used up your calling card tonight but I really appreciate all the information you've given us. Well, I will send you that diagram for the double bazooka not a problem man. Great. It'll take me a little bit to get it together but I will do it and maybe I might throw a zap in there or something. Oh, great. Thank you mucho. Alright, 73s. 520-333-4578. 73s, from what I understand, folks, from listening to the radio means good wishes, good luck, and you know, all that kind of stuff. Good evening. You're on the air. Oh, boy, there's the resident jerk-off. Always got one of those out there. I bet he's got a license. You want to bet? 520-333-4578. Isn't it amazing how some people who don't have brains choose to express themselves? Poor little feller. 520-333-4578 if you'd like to contribute. Good evening. You're on the air. Hello? Hello? Yes. I heard you talking a while ago about these wind-up radios. Uh-huh. And you mentioned something was in now. Could you tell me why? Yeah, well, they don't have tubes, do they? No. Well, I wonder how they can operate if they're hit with an EMP burst. If you're hit with any of what? With an electromagnetic burst. Oh, I see what you're saying. Okay. They won't work. I see. Okay. All right. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. Bye-bye. See, nobody ever thought of that. And I've got to tell you the truth, folks. I didn't think of it for a long time. And then one day, a couple weeks ago, I was sitting there looking at my Sangian radio, the one that we had purchased to get us through an emergency, and it just dawned on me, it just hit me like a brick right between the eyes that it wouldn't work. And then I started thinking about all these other things, the Baygens and all these wind-up and solar-powered and all that stuff. They've got chips inside of them. They've all got chips and that's how they can make them so little. They won't work either. And you know, if I'm wrong about this, let me know. If they don't have any chips in them, let me know so I won't be steering you wrong. But that's what I see. That's what I see, folks. And it might be intentional. I don't know. It might not. But whatever it is, we need to get it straight so that we don't fall into these traps. We've got to be able to know what's going on. And we've got to be able to communicate. We absolutely must be able to hear what's going on in the rest of the world and we must be able to communicate. And so we can't let ourselves fall into these traps. Tube radios, the old kind of radios, that's where it's at. And you know what? Except for the ones that are considered to be top-of-the-line collector's models, they don't cost very much. They really don't. I've been looking at them all over the place. I've got some. And they're fun. They're really fun. You know, it's amazing how much fun they are. Seems like the more modern things get, the more they make it impossible for you to enjoy them. For instance, when you turn on the sanguine, you turn it on, you punch in the frequency, you hit enter, and you don't have to do anything else with that radio. That's no fun. That's no fun. At least not for me. That's not any fun. I like to, I like to be a part of what I'm doing. And so, with those old radios, you really can be. good evening. Good darling, Miss Molly, naughty how you act. Good darling, Miss Molly, naughty how you act. You stop the mother's laughing like a man's new Cadillac. You've got me rolling and soft in my feet. You've got me all my things letting me run away. I'm onicheers, my darling, for the holy everybody let me feed you. I'm not calling you, I'm not calling you Let me be your fool When you mama like me do I have a bad night I want you, baby, to make love for my time I give you all my loving If you're in pain, then you'll be kind Good, good, darling Oh, Miss Molly, Lord, what can I do? I'm good, darling I'm Miss Molly, Lord, what can I do? Good evening. You're on the air. Yeah, I just wanted to comment about the two radios. The best ones to get that aren't ultra expensive are like your Halicrafters, like your SX96 or 99 Uh-huh Or if you want to get a Hammerland, now they can be a little more expensive like the good ones, like what's our HG170s and 180s, those are expensive Now when you talk about the Halicrafters, the SXs, are those receivers or transceivers? Those are receivers Okay And I have an SX99 that my dad gave me Now it's not as fancy as the 96, it doesn't have the gear or tuning but it does have some backlash in the band spread but I mean it's not as, you know, good a DXer for like amateur sideband like my Drake is, but of course that's solid state Uh-huh But on the AM broadcast band at night, when the Drake is like getting swamped with multiple DX signals This thing's got a crystal phasing and it pulls in DX AM broadcast band stations like better stunning than any radio I got That's what my old S108 does, the Halicrafters Yeah It's just incredible Yeah It blows the modern stuff right off the porch Yeah, and so the Halicrafters is a good model to keep but as far as parts go, there's different ones in these publications I can't think of like antique wireless supply as one of them Where's that at? Uh, I'd have to look it up, it's in one of the books I think, uh, the broadcast receiver book Uh, one of these books has the address on that I imagine it's out there somewhere Oh, well, can you give us the name of some of the books that maybe people could purchase that would steer them in some of these right directions? Universal Radio has that one about shortwave, uh, uh, you know, communications receivers past and present those kind of books Oh, I see Okay And, uh, there's several different, uh, listings for these kind of things But also, if you know any old hams and stuff I've got a brother-in-law who's an extra class ham And he has an old hammer on them Now it's an amateur band only That's what you gotta be careful when you buy tube radios Some of them are amateur bands only They don't cover broadcast bands Yeah And so you gotta be careful when you buy them Now it's an amateur band only receiver But I'm thinking about slopping it for something of his that I want One of ours, the H-man, the G-A-K That's a good old radio with the geranium diodes Yeah, good luck though People want a lot of money for those things Oh, yeah But other than that, as far as transmitting gear I don't know what to tell you on that That's really, you know, a caveat right there Because you can have, uh, burn up, uh, cores And the transformers and stuff Yeah, and they're always talking about the finals Yeah You need new finals Yeah, burn up, but also the transformers can be ate up too Yeah Yeah And the only bad thing about emergency radios It takes a lot of juice to the rubbing tube radios And so you're gonna have a hell of a generator Or have a way to work it off your vehicle Well, you can work it off your vehicle You can, you can have a generator And everybody should have one Yeah Or you can have a solar system set up Uh, which, uh, will provide enough power To run it not 24 hours a day But for, like, uh, five or six hours During certain portions of the day Yeah, you'd have to have a large solar array In order to have a large stockpile of batteries Though to run these Because, I mean, they do take some, uh, real amperage Yeah, they do That's true Okay Well, that's my recommendation So, because I mean, Collins It's like, you know, almost untouchable Like, you know, the price range I'd be willing to pay I know, I discovered that I used to know some people who had, uh, a lot of Collins And they were real inexpensive back during that time And then I remembered Collins And I went looking for Collins And I found out real quick that, uh, I don't want a Collins even if I want one Because I can't afford a Collins Another good one is, uh, National National were a good one, too Now, nobody's talked about that yet Tell us about National Uh, I'd have to look up the model numbers on that But a friend of mine had an old National And I think it's just as nice or nicer than the Helicrafters Really? What do they look like? Uh, they're big gray metal boxes Just like the rest of them Uh-huh But they're old two types And they're like, you know, late 50s, early 60s And all the old ones usually have two dials on the front One is the, is the band dial And the other one is the fine tuning Yeah, yeah, the band's spread And then, of course, they all have the nice big, uh, deluxe meters on the front usually Yeah They're really pretty I mean, they, they really can catch your eye and make you fall in love with them And I, yeah Yeah, that'd be a book I'd recommend though That, uh, shortwave receivers Their communications receivers Past and present Well, that's interesting Okay, I'll write that down They're different models in them And they tell you what they're, you know Uh, whether they're really a good value for the money or not And they even got the yen prices Japanese collectors are stamping up some of the best ones About what they ask for yen-wise If you have a Japanese collector, watch your radio Well, that may have been true at one time But I don't think they're doing it too much right now They're in a deep, deep recession They're in trouble They're really in trouble And it's, uh, it's gonna hit us too But yeah, remember the more tubes the better the radio But then again, some of these tubes are getting harder to find Um, I have heard that from some people And from other people I've told them They've told me that they just don't know where to look That they're there Yeah, and then you also got the problem of, uh, you wanna get something That they have the transformer Cause the other ones are the ACBC without a transformer Uh-huh So you can get electric, you know, fatal shock On some of the earlier sets I don't wanna get a fatal shock Yeah, and then the capacitor sometimes has to be changed I think that's what one of our callers was talking about When he said that you gotta make sure that your set is grounded well Yeah, that's right Because, yeah, you can get, you know, the last, you know, radio thrill of your life real quick Have a good night I like the way you put that The last radio thrill of your life Yeah Thank you so much Alright, bye-bye And, uh, the last radio thrill of your life This is, by golly, the theater of the mind And it is thrilling to me I love to listen to radio I've always loved to listen to radio Now, sometimes when I get really involved in research Or some of the products I don't know about products Some of the, uh, the, uh, projects Is what I meant to say That we have going on around here Uh, I don't get to listen too much But, uh, whenever I, I can Especially in the summertime Doyle and I just love to sit out on the porch And listen to radio late into the night During the summer when the reception is really good Uh, we do it in the winter But we live up in the mountain 7,500 feet And it's cold It's cold in the winter Late at night Even if it's warm in the daytime At night, it's cold And you don't find too many people Sitting out in the cold at night Unless they've got a nice rip-roaring campfire Uh, you know, in the middle of a circle And then you might find some people doing that In fact, we've been known to do that too Especially up at the ranch 520-333-4578 And by the way, those of you who, uh, remember Jeff From our conferences Jeff just got married Uh, March the 3rd Which was yesterday, as a matter of fact So you might want to, uh, give him a call And wish him well But, you know, give him a couple of weeks For the honeymoon to wear off Good evening, you're on the air Oh, hello, is this Bill Cooper? It sure is Can you speak a little louder, please? This is Dave Martin in California Hi, Dave And, uh, someone called, uh, one of our broadcasters From a public To tell them to call me to call you And I don't know why I'm supposed to do it Well, I'll tell you what the subject of tonight's broadcast is And then you can determine whether you have anything to contribute Oh, okay We're talking about old tube-type radios That you can use to receive broadcasts from all over the world And, uh, transmitters are transceivers, as they're called Either way, either separate or together or just receiving Are, are the sets that are combined in one unit Which are called transceivers Uh, but all, only tube-type, uh, we're interested in And we're talking about which ones are the best ones to get Where do you get them? Where do you get tubes? Where do you have them repaired when they break down And it's not just a tube that you need to fix? Well, I'm good at that Okay, well then I'll get there You've got it You've got the microphone Go for it Well, uh, first off, tubes are still available Uh, a lot of them are made offshore Of course the Chinese are real good at making tubes And, uh, of course we don't like buying from the Chinese But so what? You know, if they work, they work Uh, but there are still a lot of, uh, surplusers out there And, and people who specialize in just selling vacuum tubes And, uh, there are a few still made here in this country And especially high-power output tubes for transmitters Um, the, uh, finer, well, a lot of the old equipment That's, that's still around You can, you can pick it up Uh, uh, sometimes at ham radio stores They're all over the country Uh, the way to find out where they're at, um, is get the American Radio Relay League publication Uh, a QST Most magazine, uh, stores generally will have that Or a CQ magazine or something like that Uh, but QST has a monthly, um, uh, a little list of where all these places are gonna be during the month Um, uh, hams do still use tubes I've got some tube gear here, some older heat kit And columns gear Of course my thought, personally, is still columns is the best And it's still the best And I own several pieces of that Uh, and, um I, I know you're right about that Yeah But it's so expensive that the average person really, uh, can't get into that Well, I, I buy used pieces, uh, as cheaply as I can and restore it And I, I bought pieces for as little as two or three hundred dollars And turned it around for anywhere from seven, eight hundred to a thousand dollars Wow Uh, because people like it Uh huh Uh, then, uh, I also like to buy older receivers Uh, the military, of course Uh, there's still a lot of receivers Like, say, through, uh, their radio sales in Lyme, Ohio They have, uh, what are called the old R390 receivers You know, can I interrupt you for just a minute And get you to put the, the telephone right in front of your mouth And talk a lot louder if you possibly can It's all the taps on my phone Well, actually, it's our, it's our telephone patch here Uh huh What we have is a speaker phone with a microphone about 14 inches away from it Yeah, I, I have another little phone that I use when I'm on Republic I, I have a show on Republic called, uh, uh, the Com Center Uh huh And I'm the comp chief for that, so But, uh, that's on Saturday afternoon Why don't you give the frequency and the time? Uh, well, it's on Republic Radio On, uh, G7 Channel 14 7.71 Audio And on freeservers.com, uh, look for RRI I'm not on shortwave yet Oh, I see, okay So you're on satellite on, uh, G7 Transponder 14 7.17 Audio That's 7.71 7.71, okay I don't even know what frequency you're on right now I tried looking, but I 7.415 Which one? 7.415 megahertz For 15 That's an old Mars frequency years ago Yeah, it's also where the old pirates used to hang out, too And, uh, we may have some more real soon with the way things are going Right Well, I think we probably, well, not pirates, but people who, uh, who just need to communicate That's right Uh, real communicators Right People with a message You got it Um, I was gonna mention there's still a lot of other equipment, newer, or older equipment out there Of course you had the helicrafters equipment and the, uh, uh, the, uh, oh, gosh, my brain just died It is But there's a lot of stuff, Heathkit had a lot of equipment out there What do you think of Siltronics? I see a lot of that around Well, Siltronics, uh, was a, actually made by Swan, or was a subsidiary of Swan Corporation Uh-huh And they made primarily tube-type, higher-powered CV sets south of the border I think most of it was made south of the border I have a, uh, 1011C Uh-huh, so it covers 10 to 11 meters? Yes Yeah Upper and lower sideband also Uh, the transceivers, of course, the Swan made some really fine stuff, uh, for, uh, low cost It was good gear, it's still a lot of people using that for HF Um, and, uh, it was all American made, of course Now when you say HF, you're talking about high frequency High frequency, uh, well, it covers generally, uh, 80 through 10 meters Uh-huh Yeah And there's a lot of those out there And the ham bands only Yeah, there's lots of those out there And some of them say that they have 160 Now what's 160? Of course, uh, then, uh, you had, um, Helicrafter had quite a bit out, uh, and, uh What, what do they mean by, when they say 160? 160 meters is, uh, one, well, the ham band actually is, is, um, 1.8 to 2 megahertz So that would be what's called the 160 meter band Okay Yeah It's actually the wavelength of the frequency you're looking at Uh-huh Uh-huh Everybody, uh, rather than putting the meter band on there, they put the frequency in I see Or, uh, kilohertz Uh-huh Yeah How do you convert kilohertz to like, uh, uh, how do you convert, uh, uh, kilohertz to kilo cycles or, or, or, or megahertz? Well, kilohertz-kilocycles means the same thing That's the same thing? Yeah So, if I say I'm on 7.4, or, if I say I'm on 7.4, or, or, if I say I'm on 7.415 kilo cycles, that's the same as 7.415 kilohertz? That's correct Okay That was giving me some problems I didn't, I see a lot of radios advertised as from blankety-blank to blankety-blank kilohertz Right And, uh, I didn't know what that meant Right Well, uh, uh, back around the 60s, they decided to, uh, recognize Mr. Hertz, uh, who, uh, was the, uh, man responsible for determining different, uh, frequency or creating some form I don't remember the history behind it myself Uh-huh They, uh, changed it from kilo cycles to Hertz But it's the same thing? Exactly the same thing Oh, right Well, that clears up, uh, a few mysteries I, I don't even remember reading the history about Mr. Hertz, but very little Yeah But that was, uh, back when I was in high school, I think I see Uh, so, what, uh, what would be an optimum tube shack, uh, that would be within a reasonable cost for most people If they wanted to set up a communications center for use in case of some extreme emergency? What would you recommend? Okay, if you're going to get a piece of tube gear, find a transceiver that, that hopefully is working And if it's not, they are repairable and you can get parts for them And I, I can help you get them or find them or buy them or whatever, uh, through my company, uh, and, uh, I'll give the phone number out in a few minutes, but, uh, I can also point you in the right direction Okay Now, Light still sells a lot of the parts, uh, uh, Newark Electronics, uh, still sell some of the parts But then there's other, uh, companies, uh, and organizations that, uh, uh, you can get them digging here while I'm talking, uh, for a catalog that I have that just specializes in old-time products And, uh, there's a magazine, uh, out there called Antique Electronic Supply, uh, Catalog I'll give you a phone number for that, so everyone get your pencil and paper there And, uh, they sell, uh, tubes, books, parts, supplies Their phone number is area code 602-820-5411 That's 602-820-5411 And they have a fax on 800 Should I give that out, Bill? What is it now? They have a fax on 800 Sure, go ahead Okay, that's, uh, 800 706 768 Miner And that's a fax 678 Miner Okay, and that's a fax number, right? 800 Number fax, right Okay, great Now, they, they have a, a little catalog, uh, that you can, uh, send for, I think they charge you three dollars for it Well, that's okay, if we're gonna do this, it'll be worth it Tubes, the older styles Uh, sockets, uh, truces Uh, transformers, higher voltage transformers Now, remember, when you're dealing with vacuum tubes, you're dealing with high voltages In a receiver, you might deal with, uh, upwards of two or three hundred volts, DC In a transmitter, especially in the final output stage of the transmitter, you can deal with as much as Well, most of the older transceivers used, uh, uh, uh, 6146, uh, final tubes, uh, some of those were about 800 volts I wish I could find them, I'll put them together I used to love to build that stuff Wow, well, if I'd have known that, I would have picked them up, but, uh, I didn't know anything about it, to tell you the truth, at the time Actually, you'd probably have to replace some of the old, uh, uh, dried out capacitors That's the one thing you want to be careful of, when you do get a piece of gear Now, if you buy a transceiver, always be sure that you get the power supply with it Yeah, because you can't find a lot of them now Generally, it didn't have the power supply And, uh, Heath kits all use the same little supply So, if you find one Heath kit, it'll work with other ones Not only that, but it can be modified to work with a SWAT Uh-huh And some of the others that had 6-volt filaments Yeah Oh, volt filaments, I'm sorry For instance, on our 1011C, it's got a 12-prong male power fitting on the back of it That's a Jones connector on those And where do you get those kinds of things? Uh, the Jones connector? Yeah, and the power supply that goes with it Yeah, well, the supply you'd probably have to build up today Yeah Um, but if you have the schematic of the unit, it's not that hard Uh-huh There's several companies out there still make the transformers You can still buy the capacitors But you do want to replace most of the electrolytic capacitors That's a big, uh, generally aluminum or, or paper capacitors With the, the line on the side or the positive end on it Um, those, they're, they're, they get dried out Uh-huh And when they dry out, uh, holes tend to get poked in the, uh, uh, dielectric material Or the insulating material between the, uh, between the plates And, uh, that'll cause them to break down And you get a lot of hum in the radio set and things Wow So you want to avoid that and, and... Now, does that require desoldering and soldering? Yes, it does And so you've got to be pretty good to do that Amateurs shouldn't be doing that Um Now, somebody who hasn't done that before shouldn't be in there doing that kind of thing That's true If you don't know what you're doing, don't touch it Uh, the other thing, when you do open a set up like that If you are planning to do it, be sure that you touch both ends of the cap If you don't know which end it is, um, with a, uh, a screwdriver And, uh, and touch that to ground or, or something An insulated device Because if they are holding a charge And they do hold a pretty good charge Uh, you can get knocked for a loop Your last radio thrill, as the last caller put it And, and I like to say one thing Real radios glow in the dark Oh, I've heard that before, you know And I'm beginning to become a believer Uh, they really do I love them Well, we're out of time And, you know, I want to really thank you for this I would like for you to call me at the same number tomorrow afternoon Okay, so Can I give you a number also, and the people a number? Sure, go ahead Okay, uh, my company name is Martronics And I help people in this area And the phone number is 805-239-1932 That's 805-239-1932 Well, thank you so much You're welcome, Bill And feel free to call me, too Okay Okay Thanks a lot Bye Good night And that's it, folks, for tonight Uh, I hope my voice isn't too loud I had to turn the pot way, way up on the last caller Because, uh, his voice was just so loud And he has a radio program That's very unusual for somebody who's on the radio To project that low But he gave us some really, really good information And tomorrow I'm going to try to talk to him And, uh, arrange some way where, where, uh, we can, uh, get his help on a more permanent level And, uh, those of you with, uh, with satellite dishes You can turn in, tune in to his broadcast Although, you know what? 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