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Steve - WB3HUZ
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« on: October 11, 2006, 07:29:17 PM »
Been using this receiver for several years and I haven't heard one Sputnik. I want my money back!

These units sold for  over $1200 in 1958. That's almost 8 grand in today's dollars.
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w1guh
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« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2006, 07:32:10 PM »
Yes - hear sputnik...wasn't it around 7 MHz?

It just so happened that my father was listening to Radio Moscow after the launch but before the news hit America and heard about it there.

Sniff...'scuse me while I get wistful for the great days of shortwave radio.
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« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2006, 07:36:20 PM »
They equipped the Sputnik with transmitters to broadcast on frequencies at 20 and 40 MHz.
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« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2006, 10:02:49 AM »
It must need alignment, Steve. Sputnik is all-powerful, it pins the gauges here. I listen to it awwwwwl the time!

I remember an OT telling me the Ruskies set Sputnik up to sound like it was laughing at us. Sounds like  ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaaaa ?  Judge for yourselves:

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« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2006, 11:09:37 AM »
Quote from: Steve - WB3HUZ on October 11, 2006, 07:29:17 PM
Been using this receiver for several years ...



Aren't the Collins -4 series receivers (75A and 51J), according some members of this Board, pieces of crap unworthy to be used for AM?
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Steve - WB3HUZ
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« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2006, 11:12:56 AM »
Two different animals Don. Betcha you never heard a Sputnik on your A4. That's another reason to get rid of it. Grin
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« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2006, 09:53:26 PM »
I heard Oscar 6 or 7, I think, on 10 meters back around 1974.  All these ssb signals drifting around together...  But, I was using my R-392.
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