What is the picture in your Av?
Thanks for the rapid reply!My main hobby is building radios the old way (using tubes, or "valves" as you say in the UK). The photo shows two of those radios. I really must get back to the hobby. Unfortunately it is a totally sedentary hobby, and -- since my diagnosis -- has been replaced by physical exercise.
I suspected they were radios but I was thinking radio ham. Not sure such a thing still exists with the advent of the internet.... Can you still get these things easily enough?
That reminds me, I owe that locum £1.I basically bet my doctor £1 that the tests were wrong. I remember laughing in his face.
That reminds me, I owe that locum £1.
You should post in the hobbies or craft threads.Yes they are ham radios -- the receiver on the left, the transmitter on the right. They are built from designs published in the late 1960s. With this simple, home-made equipment, the communication is done using Morse Code. Ham radio is alive and thriving, with the number of licensed amateur radio operators still growing steadily at least here in the USA.
It is still possible to get just about all of the parts to build these old-style radios, or you can buy modern, very sophisticated equipment. I prefer building stuff from the "vintage" era because it uses "discrete components" rather than integrated circuits, so that you can tell exactly what each part's function is.