Things I Learned: 73 Magazine Archives; Video Game Switch/Superglue Reliability; Amateur Radio on Internet Archives

Digging into radio's past, reliability of video game switches as Morse code keys; reliability of Superglue???; Sound in 1948 with amateur radio

I'm finding more and more entertaining ham radio resources. The net is spreading out thanks to my starting point a few weeks ago, Ham Radio Workbench.Podcast.

Today, I wound up at the 73 Magazine archives on the Internet Archives. 73 Magazine was an amateur radio print magazine that ran from 1960 to 2003. (I was kinda stunned about the 2003 end of that range... wow... magazines). Some of the covers are regrettable. Some of the articles are interesting though. At the moment, I'm spelunking through 1967 looking for an article about permeability tuned oscillators mentioned by Bill Meara in the Solder Smoke podcast episode from December 3rd, 2022.

Found the article: https://archive.org/details/73-magazine-1967-10/page/n21/mode/2up

And again, so sorry for the... every gendered thing.

I'm into week two of the Rockmite handset. Here's what I've learned. The Bao-Lian video game switches have held up. They do however, occasionally just drop out all togethere. I push close the switch and nothing happens. This started on the da switch, and has now started happening on the di switch. It's not a deal-breaker yet, but It's something I'm seeing on the switch:

And yes, the fog collecting on the switch can't help. However, it didn't seem to hurt either!

The superglue has held, and I know superglue, but I hadn't expected it. The switches are intact!

I'm getting closer to finding the info I'm looking for regarding kids and amateur radio from the wayback, as illustrated in this vidoe on sound from the Internet Archives I found in the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications.

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