GB> Flexible Flea rediscovered

[Mike Silva]

The EI Annual doesn't say which issue, but the Annual itself is 1967, so I'd
guess the article was 1966-1967.  I'll see if I can scan it in without
having the magazine fall apart :(

73,
Mike, KK6GM


>Which issue of electronics Illustrated was that Mike?  I remember reading
>that article back then, later 60's wasn't it?.    I would sure like to find
>the article and read it again, maybe build it too!!
>
>73,  Scott WA9WFA in Saint Paul Minn
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike Silva [SMTP:mjsilva at jps.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 2:38 PM
>> To: Boatanchors; Glowbugs
>> Subject: GB> Flexible Flea rediscovered
>>
>> I just picked up an old Electronics Illustrated Annual and there it was:
>> The
>> Flexible Flea.  I could feel the rusty synapses waking up -- yeah, I
>> remember that!  And boy, did I want to build it!  (Just a 6AK6 TX with
>> continuously variable power input from ~0 to 5W).  I'm sure it wasn't the
>> specs that excited me, just the look of it.  Same reason I wanted an
Ameco
>> AC-1, and so many other goodies -- the looks.  I also remember being
>> thrilled by what was probably my first transmitter article, the 6DQ6 rig
>> in
>> the early '60s "How to Become a Radio Amateur".
>>
>> So, for fun, what rigs (homebrew, commercial, kits) did you folks
>> desperately want way back when?
>>
>> 73,
>> Mike, KK6GM
>>
>

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