** Wanted to buy Home Broadcasters, Phono Oscillators, and Babysitters!

[Brian Carling]

No pictures I am afraid, but mine was a homebrew 807,
grid modulated by a plastic K-Mart record player!!
I used a 1400 kc/s crystal though (sophisticated eh?!!)
Not sure where the rock came from but the
station worked very well from the third story of a
fake "windmill" type building that served as the poolhouse/laundry
of our apartments in Georgia. It started out life in a construction shack, but that
was of course lower to the ground, and the
AM signal travelled much farther after going up to that
3rd story level!

I don't have it now, so it's not for sale - sorry!

Most of the parts came from a cannibalized MARS surplus
BC-610 tuning unit some ham had given me (sorry!)

On 1 May 2003 at 21:13, ed sharpe wrote:

> Ok the latest tangent for a future display are:
>
> Home Broadcasters, Phone Oscillators and Babysitters!
>
> looking  for the acual items of course, but to go along with that,
> advertisements, and  some first hand oral history  about your early
> experiences and  fun and  trouble yuo got into etc etc  regarding
> these devices!
>
> It would be interesting to now how many folks that  enjoyed these went
> into some form of boradcasting.....
>
> Three that I remember myself were the
>
>  knight kit little  blue unit with the 50c5's in it ( had loads of fun
>  with one of these! This baby would be fun to play with again!)
>
> the RCA Unit ( I almost remember this having a pentode or a pentagrid
> tube in it.....
>
> Lafayette unit... Did not have one but always looked in the catalog at
> it.
>
> Was  there also a heathkit unit?  I seem to think so but a catalog
> check will  fill in the details of it's existence.
>
>
> a close brother to the home broadcaster  was the 'baby sitter' and
> knew people when I was young that kludged extra inputs and preamps
> onto these.....
>
> Yep want examples of all of them! cash, trade, free... whatever!
>
> But most of all want some history of  peoples involvement with them to
> add to the section on the web site.
>
> Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
>
> Please check our web site at
>  http://www.smecc.org
> to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff
> we buy, and by all means  when in Arizona drop in and see us.
>
> address:
>
>  coury house / smecc
> 5802 w palmaire ave
> glendale az 85301
>
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