The young man shown here is doing some code practice in anticipation of getting his novice license, using this receiver described sixty years ago this month in the October, 1959, issue of Popular Electronics . The magazine showed how to construct this simple two-tube receiver designed especially for the novice. It tuned the 80, 40, and 15 meter bands using plug-in coils, and those coils were carefully designed to give maximum bandspread over the CW bands, allowing the new novice to tune in the crowded novice bands.

The set was regenerative, but according to the article, it would give most superhets a run for their money.