Please let me know what you think, and thanks for stopping by. - Curtis
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1/3/2012 04:24:23 am
I'm just checking to see how the guestbook might work out.
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6/6/2012 01:35:57 am
I wanted to email you some photos to see if you could identify a piece of vintage equipment. Could you email me so I can send you the pictures?
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Curtis Eickerman
6/6/2012 01:52:53 pm
You can post your pictures on a web site (like photobucket) and PM me as Eickerman on the Antique Radio Forums and I will take look.
Milton L
9/9/2016 12:32:51 pm
Great web site love the Paintings and the quilts and thank you for you help Mr Eickerman
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Julie Rush
1/5/2012 12:14:45 am
Really nice. Love the quilt and painting pics.
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Karen Peet
1/25/2012 05:19:04 am
I didn't know you used to sneak back in the middle of the night to listen to the radio!! The things you learn on a brother's website, sheesh!!
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5/1/2012 11:01:08 am
I enjoyed finding out a bit more info on the guy who helps so many of us on the Antique Radio Site. I am just getting into BAs and will no doubt have lots of questions. Without trying, I seem to have accumulated 34 BAs. I have yet to restore the first one. Soon.
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jesse harmon
5/2/2012 12:27:23 am
Thanks for all your help on the forums. I always know you'll chime in if you can
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Elton Smith
5/2/2012 04:16:51 am
Just dropped by from ARF , like your paintings, My uncle was a painter as well. He did stricly desert paintings , he would take his camper out into death valley for a week at a time and just paint . You can find some of his on the internet, Ed Hammerburg.
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Rickey
10/15/2012 08:56:24 am
Nice web page. I also appreciate what you do on ARF!
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10/17/2012 10:41:35 pm
Curtis, It's really fun reading your stories! Thank you for sharing them.
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David Correira
4/11/2013 04:58:26 am
Hello,
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david correira
4/11/2013 04:59:57 am
and also here is my e-mail to contact me: [email protected]
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Ambient
8/1/2013 12:44:15 am
OM I enjoyed your website. You might be interested in the Society for Scientific Exploration and its free magazine EdgeScience. Please visit:
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Hilary Lamothe
10/4/2013 04:59:30 pm
Great ideas for HQ-129-X. I bought mine in 1969 from a repair shop in NJ where I started working in HS. I saw an Antique Radio newsletter which had many mods for this receiver, but never seen it since mid 80's from a ham at work at Nortel. I recapped it and calibrated it 35 years ago and now it is shorted somewhere, blows fuses even on the variac.. It drifted some, and was noisy above 20M. Very interested in making the tube hang AGC ckt you have work. The last stage looks strange upside down (for negative bias of course). It was my primary receiver with a Viking II and VFO as WN2KAI/WA2KAI.
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Gene Pederson
1/22/2014 06:57:18 am
Enjoyable site. I especially like seeing all the cars you have had over the years. Wish I had taken pics of mine.
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3/4/2014 12:51:10 pm
Curtis: Nice website and I enjoyed reading about your many interests. I also see your input on Antique Radios. I had a Magnavox Brittany restored a couple of years ago. It is a console, with turntable, AM and FM. It's was made in 1956. My wife's great uncle was the owner of it. It sounds great. They use to play 45's on it when they were kids. It sits in my living room and I play it almost everyday. Again, nice reading.
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3/23/2014 11:41:02 pm
Curtis; I saw your comments about the Heathkit LMO for the SB series transceivers. I have an HW-101 I assembled about 1979/80. After reading the comments on http://antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=246753 I believe my HW-101 has essentially the same problem with stuck tangs on the front of the LMO tuning capacitor shaft. It will not turn the full rotation range of the dial in either direction. The LMO for this model is a little different from that on the SB-301, but I am pretty sure that is the problem after reading the discussion on Antique Radio Communication Receivers forum. Thanks for your input on that forum.
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Tig1
10/19/2014 06:14:40 am
Hi Curtis, looking at your pastimes i don't feel so bad now about taking up knitting. :)
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4/7/2015 09:57:50 am
A true renaissance man, Monsieur Eikerman...love the website.
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Tina Pauley
8/4/2015 12:25:38 am
Neat website. Love the paintings and quilts.
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Reed
12/24/2015 12:18:28 pm
I love your paintings, I get the impression of Vincent Van Gogh
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5/4/2016 01:34:38 pm
Enjoyed your site Curtis and the wife liked Susan's quilts. My wife also quilts and it certainly takes a LOT of room!
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Gary T. Lane
8/12/2016 07:51:42 am
Hi Curtis, Just listened to your radio interview, you seem to think the way I do! I just love science. I am 72 years old and have had some medical problems. I am a true believer in an all wise creator God.
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Steven Schindel
12/16/2016 02:43:22 am
Thanks for the help on the forum - it has been a long time since I had to do any audio output impedance calculations and had forgotten the math behind it.
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Randall "Randy" Jouett
7/9/2017 02:20:27 pm
Very nice site, Curtis. Love the layout and info.
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Dale Matthews
1/17/2018 09:44:55 am
Thank you so much Curtis for all the help on my radios Very nice web page thanks again
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4/13/2018 08:11:34 am
A delightful website. I too enjoy "glow in the dark" radios and have ALWAYS thought the 129X was a great receiver... actually quite splendid for CW to this day. I gravitated to British sports cars (they attracted more girls) after a '60 Impala I ran a "Twoer" in, & a '64 Malibu SS convertible "slickside" with a real Motorola "reverb" unit - it sounded like somebody dropped a screen door when you hit a bump! Still restore tube-type gear out here in the styx of CO, and hey,,.., it keeps me out of the bars. I'd never seen an ALDA (had one of their 30a p/s) before - very similar to the ATLAS 210X I just refurb'd. 73
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Gerry Roberts
8/13/2018 12:18:40 pm
Hello Curtis,
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8/14/2018 03:51:53 pm
Gerry, this should be relatively simple to fix since it appears to be a connection issue. It is probably not the socket itself, but most likely a bad solder joint of the filament wires to the socket pins 2 or 8 on the 5Y3. Alternatively if those solder joints are OK the soldering of the filament wires to the pins of the 5Y3 itself should be checked. Sometimes with age and heat cycling these crack loose. If all else fails please look up "Antique Radio Forums" via Google, set up an account (free) and post your question there. I or someone else will be happy to assist you further.
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Jacky Winters
11/10/2018 08:06:24 am
Did you ever get your power on issue resolved on your FT-7800? I have the exact same problem.
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Curtis Eickerman
2/13/2019 08:46:17 pm
Sorry I have not responded sooner. Indeed the problem was resolved. It turned out to be a fault in the display-to-body interconnect cable. Once this was replaced everything worked properly.
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3/4/2019 02:45:53 pm
I tried your AVC mod on my HQ-100A. It works well, but there were random oscillations at higher bands. I made sure the leads are of shorted possible length, but that didn't help. It disappeared after bypassing the new 1M resistor with a .01uF ceramic cap. I like the result and am trying to apply similar mod to other receivers.
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Curtis Eickerman
3/8/2019 10:45:54 am
I'm glad it worked out for you. Thanks for letting me know about needing a capacitor across the 1 M resistor. Please let me know how it goes with any other receivers.
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Kihwal Lee
3/8/2019 11:33:29 am
Here is the video of the HQ-100A after the mod: https://youtu.be/452yowhdvwQ
Curtis is my hero.
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Brad J Mumm
3/10/2020 07:49:06 am
Good Morning Curtis - the 50th year reunion committee is trying to get our contact information for the Sept '70 event. Hope you will consider attending.
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Ryan
7/8/2020 04:58:55 pm
Hello
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Curtis Eickerman
7/13/2020 04:43:08 pm
Ryan, I am sorry to hear you are having that problem. Mine really was just that interface cable between the face and the body. My cable was a brand new one yet it was bad or wrong somehow. I ended up sending it in the Yaesu (kind of expensive), but when it came back they said they just replaced my brand new cable and it has forever been functional thereafter. The bad cable did not return so I could not check to see if it was really broken or was just wired different. Sorry I can't be more help.
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Joe Koester
7/23/2020 07:59:46 am
Nice web page; I enjoyed seeing all your interests. Mine are ham radio (W4NSA) and antique radio, and my wife is heavily into quilting so we share some of the same interests. I also enjoy writing a lot and have a project going on now. I write frequent articles for Radio Age, a journal dedicated to Antique Radio. Well worth getting.
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gary d ketterman
11/23/2020 02:59:03 pm
I'm new to antique radio repair, just started early this year. I had a few radios i collected in my young years but then stored them as i raised my family. I'm retired now and started this hobby. Painting is something i would like to experiment with, but probably have enough to keep me busy. You have responded to some of my posts on ARF with my problems on radios. Thanks so much. That forum has been a savings to me, without i probably would have given up.
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Curtis Eickerman
12/5/2020 10:30:11 am
Gary, I am happy to have been of some help to you on the Antique Radio Forums. Painting isn't all that hard. It's the setting up and cleaning up that tends to prevent me from doing it. If I could just leave a place ready to go, I would be doing it much more.
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Curtis Eickerman
12/5/2020 10:35:48 am
I just discovered the silly Verification required by this guestbook. I couldn't even see the whole thing so was having to guess what pictures to select (failed miserably). I finally gave up and clicked the "Headphones" to type the words they said and that worked. Grrrrrrr. Why can't they leave things alone. There is apparently nothing I can do to turn that thing off, sorry.
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1/7/2021 11:35:16 am
I checked in curious about the radio stuff but I loved the first two paintings, I kept staring at them for a a few minutes.
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Curtis Eickerman
3/29/2021 02:51:25 pm
Thanks for your comments about my paintings.
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Karen E Snow
7/20/2021 02:11:59 pm
Hello Curtis, we graduated together TUHS Class of 1970. Our reunion was cancelled last year due to the virus ... BUT recently told we can have it THIS year!! It's rescheduled for Sept. 25th and it may be our LAST reunion if nobody volunteers to plan another in 5 years when most of us will be 74 ... nobody so far anyway. I've provided my personal email for you to contact me for more information. Looking forward to hear from you!! :)
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Curtis Eickerman
8/1/2021 11:07:34 am
Hi, Karen. It is highly unlikely that I will be attending the reunion. I have never been to any of them. I do hope that all who make it have a good time. My last tie to Tulare was cut 9 years ago when we cleaned out and sold my parent's home. That was sad. I don't expect to ever return.
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Steve Adcock
10/21/2021 06:16:52 pm
Hi Curtis,
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Curtis Eickerman
10/23/2021 05:55:11 pm
Steve, you are entirely welcome. I enjoy helping where I can and that site gives me the opportunity to do that.
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Ken Miller
10/24/2021 02:35:32 pm
Hi Curtis!
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Curtis Eickerman
10/24/2021 10:16:05 pm
Holy smoke, Ken. I certainly remember you. In fact I was just thinking about you last week. I remember visiting you one day while you were working at KGEN in Tulare (my home town). I think we actually mostly talked on 80 meters. Some of the group included Bobby WB6NSB, Del WB6OHA, Jim WB6RKH, Karl W6OHT, and there were others. I hope you are doing well and it is great to hear from you. I have been in Phoenix since '75 working for Motorola and General Dynamics.
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Kenneth W Miller
10/25/2021 02:07:18 pm
Hey Curtis, If my email is visible to you, I would like to communicate more about the old days. I hope you are open to that. If you prefer some other form of communication, or would just rather be left alone, that's fine.
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Sharon Lee
4/7/2022 12:30:57 pm
Wow, love the quilts and paintings. Great job both of you. Thanks for sharing.
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Michael Henderson
10/25/2023 09:19:44 am
Loved your site. The paintings are awesome! I also like reading your posts on antiqueradios.com I was just reading one this morning that you had responded to and it seems the OP left it open ended. https://www.antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=394859&p=3361390 I have tried joining the site but its been two weeks and no response from admin approving me to join. Weird. Anyway, In that open ended post I have the same distortion issue on same model, 9x571. I have replaced all R and caps, atenna good, speaker good, strong signal and many stations but the people speaking break up so I can't understand words. If I put a signal tracer on Pin 5 of 50l6-gt the sound is perfect in tracer speaker, but on the plate, pin 3, it has the same distortion. Sorry to post here but, you could email me if you have time. Thanks a lot if you can!
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Curtis Eickerman
11/21/2023 06:23:48 pm
Michael, thanks for stopping by. I have sent you an email with regard to joining the Antique Radio Forum and with regard to the problem with your radio. Hopefully we can work something out to assist you further.
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