A Queen can grow old, but she remains a Queen, so her crown has to shine. So, thanks to an unusually warm January Sunday, I decided to bring out, for an in-depth cleaning, the RT-70/GRC I recently bought at a hamvention. Surplus and boatanchors lovers will well know this unit. It puts out 0.5 Watts from 47 to 58,7 MHz, in FM mode.  Built at the beginning of the fifties in the Read more →

Everyone of us, despite the age, has weak points. One of mines, if we talk about radio, is low VHF manpacks. So, it didn’t surprise me, this morning, when we got downstairs to check if Santa had been here, and found – among other presents – a huge dark green pack. It revealed a Tesla RF-10 trasnsceiver. Santa well know kids all around the world, and what they have a crush on! Read more →