Subj : Re: XRF PROBLEMS
To   : Allen Prunty
From : Holger Granholm
Date : Mon Aug 08 2016 05:29 pm

In a message on Monday 08-06-16 Allen Prunty said to Ed Vance:

Hi Allen,

AP> A lot of her equipment is German... I noticed names like Grundig and
AP> Blaupunkt (Spelling not correct I am sure) I know from my performing
AP> arts she has a good microphone it's a Sennheiser (spelling not my
AP> best again).

Your spelling is 100% correct.

I have always had a preference for german radio, TV, household
appliances and whiteware, since my father was employed by Siemens, as
engineer for planning/building power and high voltage stations/lines.

I still have all radio sets made by NordMende, Grundig and Siemens,
until the latest two TV sets that became of asian manufacture.

My HiFi gear is all american, with a Harman Kardon 630, a d:o cassette
deck, a couple of AR-3a's, and a d:o turn table.

Non HiFi gear are an UHER 4000 Report-S tape recorder, a stationary d:o
made by Luxor, but modified by me for MS use, plus some small cassette
machines by Philips and Sony.

The only reason for mentioning all those names, is that you know them,
an ordinary american doesn't.

Amateur equipment consists of american and japanese made sets since
1960. Before that I built my own receivers and transmitters, among them
the first SSB exciter, a chinese copy of the Central Electronics 20A in
1955, and also a copy of their Sideband Slicer model B, to add to my
receiver.

I had to import some parts from the sates as "gift parcels", but fully
paid, because of the strict import regulations Finland had after the
WWII, that allowed only gift parcels through the customs.

I don't however remember how I got hold of the dollars needed.

I was the first SSB station on the air in Finland, and in 1957 became
the first one on the �land Islands too.

AP> The Channel 3 on VHF never was a good channel... everything seemed
AP> to interfere...

The same was true here too, because all those early TV sets had a 21 MHz
IF. No antenna filters helped to cure direct radiation into the TV's.


Have a good night,

Holger

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