Shown here on the cover of the June 1938 issue of Radio News is the well equipped station of Bert Heuvelman, W9ZYB, of Norwood Park, IL, a suburb of Chicago. The attractive homebrew transmitter, mounted on a panel of blue linoleum, consisted of a 6F6 crystal oscillator, T20 and T55 buffers, with two T200’s in the final running a kilowatt. The crystal mike was fed to a pair of 2A3’s driving a pair of 822’s in the modulator. Band switching enabled fast band changes. A Hallicrafters receiver was used, and the output was constantly monitored with an oscillograph and modulation meter.

Assisting Mr. Heuvelman is Miss Naomi Anderson, a professional model borrowed from the magazine’s sister publication, Popular Photography.

The magazine notes that the photo was captured with the help of over 3000 watts of flood lights illuminating the scene, and was the work of Henry F. Kroeger, Jr., of Chicago, who used a Kodak Retina II.