Well if you have red or heard of Braille Technical Press, or you feel like 
an old timer then you will probably qualify in my book.
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From: "Howard, W A 9 Y B W" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: For the other certifiable Old Timers Among Us


> Hi this is one of the Howard's, W A 9 Y B W, Springfield, IL.
>
> How old or what other qualifications do you need to be considered one of 
> the
> other certifiable Old Timers Among Us?
>
> Just wondered if I was there yet.
>
> 73's
>
> Howard #3
>
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> From: "Martin McCormick" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 10:12 AM
> Subject: Re: For the other certifiable Old Timers Among Us
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>
>> I got one of their audio amplifier modules in 1964 for
>> my thirteenth birthday and it really worked quite well. Several
>> years later, it died when I transplanted it from one box it was
>> in to another and one of the leads broke off flush with the
>> epoxy. I think that module was made to work in a phonograph as
>> the input would take a crystal pickup and the 2-watt output was
>> about what you got with the one-tube amplifiers in a lot of
>> record players of that day.
>>
>> A lot of those phonographs had a motor with a
>> transformer secondary wound on the same core as the field magnet
>> for the motor.
>>
>> Anyway, one of those modules would have probably worked
>> nicely off the 6.3-volt filament winding when rectified and
>> filtered.
>>
>> I used mine for all kinds of weird stuff and once even
>> connected the audio input to a solar cell and let my whole class
>> hear the fluorescent lights in the room buzz through the
>> speaker. I then explained that the buzz was due to the fact that
>> the lights were actually going on and off 120 times per second
>> with each half-cycle of power.
>>
>> The amplifier was still being run from a normal battery,
>> but the solar cell converted any ambient light in to sound if
>> the light was varying. If it was steady light Sun light, you
>> just heard a thump when you exposed the cell to it.
>>
>> I do remember those modules well.
>> Butch Bussen writes:
>>> I remember those.  They were way cool!!!  I had a cw monitor and
>>> somewhere
>>> I think I still have an am transmitter.  I had one die once and broke it
>>> apart, just a bunch of discreet components in epoxy.
>>> 73
>>> Butch
>>> WA0VJR
>>> Node 3148
>>> Wallace, ks.
>>>
>>>