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I started by enjoying .......as opposed to fixing .... record player, radio and a tv. Dad had a Philco 46-200 that introduced me to DXing AM. By age 11, I was getting "presents" of AA5s and began reducing some to parts and others started working by some miracle.
Our metal Motorola BW was buried in an upstairs closet when the '71 Zenith brought color to our den.
I would push the iron-rich Motorola down the hall to my room on top of a big Tonka truck for some early-morning cartoons, Hogan's Heros etc when the TV-Den was off limits. It was then that I HAD to address the antenna issues, which led to actually getting inside and fixing other issues.
I get sick of old radios, turn to tube receiver-amps and record players and get tired of that, then on to TV repairs and nostalgia-overload, which bring me back to the radios.....and so it goes.
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"When resistors increase in value, they're worthless"
-Dave G
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