Kit - better late than never

**I have a mint Dynaco PAS3 preamp (valve) ready to build. Since there's a large bunch of nutters who think this thing sounds good, it's value has been appreciating every day. I'm pretty certain I have a Dynaco valve THD/IMD meter kit somewhere too.

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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au

I bought a Talking Electronics mag with a free PCB. The PCB was the FM bug, Ant or similar. Don't remember when it came out, maybe even 80s... Anyway, I have collected all parts except for 1 or 2 caps, wound the coil, populated the PCB with the parts ready for soldering and left it in this state planning to buy the caps soon and solder the thing together. It still must be in this state somewhere in one of my junk boxes, I remember running into it from time to time over the years. It's a bit hard to find as I've recently sold my house and live at temporary accommodation with junk packed away and stored.

Anyone remembers when those mags came out? There were 2 or 3 in the series on FM bugging and prevention as far as I remember. I know I've lost the original mag because at one stage I was keen to finish my bug but couldn't find the schematics and didn't know what parts are missing...

Tom

I've got the full range of TE bugging books + some others. Not at home at the moment so can't check if there is any date, but it would have been late 80's to early 90's from memory.

Dave.

A related question that it would also be interesting to find out about.... what would be the first electronic kit released for sale in Oz? Presumably worldwide you'd be looking at Hallicrafters stuff going *way* back.

:> Can anyone beat that "better late than never" project? :>

:A related question that it would also be interesting to find out about.... :what would be the first electronic kit released for sale in Oz? Presumably :worldwide you'd be looking at Hallicrafters stuff going *way* back. :

It depends on what you call a "kit", ie. it could be full or partial.

I think you may have been able to buy partial kits for some Radio & Hobbies projects from around the mid 50's onwards.

Perhaps somebody who has copies of R&H from that era can check to see when kits started to appear.

Hobbies

kits

There were plenty of non-magazine, full kits available at that time and before. My memory of "kits" were U.S. things like "Heathkit", at a time when you had to run around with a tray selecting individual components from the local magazine project parts list. I don't remember anyone assembling local kits at the time, and metal work was something you had to do for yourself. May have been different in other states though, but I doubt it.

MrT.

When I find my kit I might ask if you caan find it in one of the books, at the moment can't remember how it was called....

Tom