QSO Today Interview with Dr. Greg Latta AA8V

AA8V_Rev1

11/3/2018

Episode 222 - Greg Latta - AA8V

In episode 33 of the QSO Today podcast, Dr. Greg Latta, AA8V, was described as a renaissance man, a master homebrewer who designs and builds the old tube rigs and fabricates the beautiful metal enclosures that encase them. Greg is also a college physics professor who says that vacuum tubes are one of the best ways to provide to students a visual representation electrons in motion. We reprise and update this QSO with AA8V.

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QRP Labs 10 Watt Linear Power Amplifier Kit

Greg Latta Sites:

Greg's Best Project: 6X2 Superhetrodyne Receiver

W8EXI Wingfoot VFO Exciter

Professor earns his third Maryland State Arts Council award

The Shortwave Mystery, Hardy Boys, By Franklin W. Dixon - book that inspired Greg’s ham radio journey

First Rig:

Current Rigs:

The Boys First Book of Radio and Electronics - By Alfred P. Morgan

Lionel Electronics Lab

First License: WN8ZVC, 1968
1968 -- First License.

First QSL Card - W9SNQ 17th May 1968

Boy Scout Electronic and Amateur Radio merit badges.

Elmer - Tim Leonard W9SNQ

Multi-Elmac AF-67 Trans-citer - ten tube, seven band transmitter or exciter.

Elmer: Len Krause, high school buddy

First Amateur Radio Club: Cuyahoga Falls Amateur Radio Club

Goodyear Amateur Radio Club - Akron, Ohio

Heathkit Company

Maryland State Arts Council

Jim Trutko, W8EXI (SK) was the ham’s ham

Negative Resistance - is the property where has the voltage is increased through a load, the current decreases.

Experiment with a 6CL6 tube.

A “Lattaism” - the latest is not always the best.

Electronic chassis design - Greg uses

Wingfoot transmitter uses this design side panels ¼
inch thick with sheet metal top and bottom.

“Just Plain Folks”, Saturday Radio Show, WFWM 91.9 FM National Public Radio

Learn Morse Code - Farnsworth Method

Articles:
“A Modern Keyed VFO for Vintage Transmitters”, Page 46 Greg Latta, QST, Jan 2014.

Time Saving Tip - be organized and take a rest every day.

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