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Re: Radio Shack Electronic Kits

I like many of you had my first experience with electronics through the

> electronic kits that Radio Shack has had over the years. The versions > that spanned the 50, 100, 200 electronic experiments all come to mind. > > My question is...how many versions and types of these kits have they > had over the years? > > I would be interested in hearing which ones you recall.

I recall my first electronics kit consisted of a single hair pin (U shaped hair pin) i promptly applied it to the nearest power source i could find (which happened to be a 120v outlet) nothing happened at first so i proceeded with my experimentation of wiggling the hair pin so as to make contact, i remember the lights flickering and then i recall a loud scream imminated from my general locale and the rest blurs

my second electronic kit was radio shack am radio with ear plug phone it scratched out some noise and occasional radio signal

my third project was a shock box (pop-mech kit ?) where i dug up some old transformer from my dads shop that resembled the one in the design (same shape & number of wires) and i applied either 6v lantern battery or couple of D cells to the indicated wires then self-tested the output... i have no idea what i put together but my arm ached and felt like jello for a short while after the test.

4th came the 100 or 125 kit from RS where you had to build some of the elments/switches/ variable capacitor ? ( eg. bunch of thin brass(copper) sheets and some thin plastic wafered together with an adjustment knob? ) i remeber lights, buzzers (elec keyboard ), meter ?,

I enjoyed it then but electronics interest faded quickly once the TRS-80, TI-99-4a, timex sinclair, ataris and commodores etc became available for play plus the video games of 70-80

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Rob B
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Uh, considering that it's often very difficult to find a free frequency on either HF or the VHF/UHF bands, because of all the QSO's going on, one can only assume that either you don't actually listen to any ham bands, or you're a troll.

- Rich

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I think they are not going to engineering school for two reasons.

1) With less effort they can go to law school and make more money. 2) The contraction of the electronics industry in the US. There are not nearly as many jobs there as there was when I started as a tech 26 years ago.

These kids need to be able to eat. I advise my son (14) to study something he is interested in at college, graduate and become a plumber or electrician. They won't be sending clogged toilets overseas.

BTW - He likes trons too.

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Mike McGinn
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Mike McGinn

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