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OK, perhaps it's not quite as elegant as a "Q" creation, but hey, I can see Sean Connery pulling this little gizmo out of his ...

Replacing the Zener, ZD1: As I mentioned in my previous post, my SB-220 also had a blown zener diode (ZD1) and two smoked resistors: the ...

I'd decided to work on a Heathkit SB-220 Linear Amplifier with a bad Plate Voltage meter (as well as a couple of smoked resistors and a ...

Some time ago, one of my relatives brought this wall-mount telephone back from Norway (it had been in the Oslo apartment of my step-mother...

Some of the gang (from a BBQ at my house after the last De Anza swapmeet of 2007 (October '07)): Joe, N6DVD; Vlad (sitting), KB9OLM; ...

Unbeknownst to me, last year my dad gave his cousin Ben a bottle of wine that I'd made (Olcese Family Reserve -- I named it after my Gre...

(Click on photo to enlarge.) I picked up this receiver some number of years ago, pre-Ebay, on rec.radio.swap. It's actually a Collin...