The answer is Yes yes

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From: "Gerry Leary" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: For the other certifiable Old Timers Among Us


> 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
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>
>> 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]>
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>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>