22 Mar
2009
22 Mar
'09
11:34 p.m.
On 22 Mar 2009 at 15:16, M H Stein wrote:
But you're right: I never thought about it but
we've come full circle
with surface-mount techniques; I wonder if royalties are being paid...
When I was a boy, my father thought he'd show me how he made radios
when he was young. So he went down to the local electronics parts
jobber and asked for a UV201.
I think he had to settle for something like a 1G4G, but he built a
regenerative circuit up nicely, with hand-wound coils on a shellacked
paper form, all surface-mounted on a piece of clear pine. It was a
thing of beauty. No vario-couplers or book-type tuning capacitors,
but it still worked.
Although it was dated, it served to push me along my career path.
Just think, I might have been a hedge-fund manager or television
sitcom producer instead...
--Chuck