<div dir="ltr">I love those stories. I am so glad hat I belong to a group of guys that have truly inspired me. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Keith Harvey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keith.harvey@persona.ca" target="_blank">keith.harvey@persona.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">I still have one here, complete with the Q Multiplier. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Graduating from crystal sets, and saving for weeks I ordered the Heath AR-2.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Heath told me they no longer had that but suggested the AR-3, I saved for a few more weeks<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">and bought one. I couldn’t afford the cabinet at the time, purchased that later. I spent many hours<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">with headphones (ear squashers) listening to s/w from all over the globe as well as country music<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">stations from the south (WWVA Wheeling comes to mind). 100’ of wire strung from my window to the<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">fence line helped immensely.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sputnik was tuned in on a couple of evenings, a big thrill. I recorded it on ¼” reel – reel, an old relic I rebuilt.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I never did learn (at the time) how to use the Q multiplier properly, didn’t even know what “Q” was.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Every few months I pull the AR-3 off the shelf and fire it up. Tuning is a bit sloppy and it does drift for a while,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">but it does remind me of many hours of listening to International S/W “news and views”.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Keith Harvey VA3KRV<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Campbellford, Ontario, Canada<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Grid FN14ci<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">VE3KHV APRS Wx<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.wunderground.com" target="_blank">www.wunderground.com</a> IONTARIO810<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.weather.campbellford.net" target="_blank">www.weather.campbellford.net</a> CWOP AS831<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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