Re: [AMRadio] Upper Bands Open for E skip
15m is dead here in FL. Same with 6m. On 11 Sep 2005 at 19:43, Mike Duke, K5XU wrote: > The bands are open through 6 meters from the mid Atlantic and mid west into > Mississippi, but I'm not hearing any AM. > > I'll check 21.430 regularly for the rest of the evening just in case someone > wants to prove that AM works on 15 meters. > > > > Mike Duke, K5XU > American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs > > > __ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net >
Re: [AMRadio] Upper Bands Open for E skip
...mike..i'll be listening...6 open here in ve3...tim..sk.. --- "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The bands are open through 6 meters from the mid > Atlantic and mid west into > Mississippi, but I'm not hearing any AM. > > I'll check 21.430 regularly for the rest of the > evening just in case someone > wants to prove that AM works on 15 meters. > > > > Mike Duke, K5XU > American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs > > > __ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net > __ Yahoo! for Good Watch the Hurricane Katrina Shelter From The Storm concert http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/shelter
[AMRadio] Upper Bands Open for E skip
The bands are open through 6 meters from the mid Atlantic and mid west into Mississippi, but I'm not hearing any AM. I'll check 21.430 regularly for the rest of the evening just in case someone wants to prove that AM works on 15 meters. Mike Duke, K5XU American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
Re: [AMRadio] FS: 600 Watt HF Linear (Military Conversion)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FOR SALE: 600 Watt HF Linear (Military Conversion) in a TU-5B Tuner Case. Speaking of TU-5B, I guess my mind saw "Tube" and I've got a Tube Tester, I might be convinced to part with... It's a TV-7B/U that looks and appears to be complete. -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR
[AMRadio] FS: 600 Watt HF Linear (Military Conversion)
FOR SALE: 600 Watt HF Linear (Military Conversion) in a TU-5B Tuner Case. This is one beautiful amp, MASTERFULLY built into a NEAR MINT General Electric Company TU-5B made of the U.S. Army Signal Corps BC-191 transmitters of WW2. Everything inside this cabinet is wonderful. The wiring is all done with silver-plated copper busbars. It was done by a pro, silent- key op who clearly took great care building it. Grounded grid circuit, with a bifilar choke on the filaments. Has three SO-239 connectors. Reduction drive tuning. Covers 4 bands 80, 40, 20, and 15m. Has variable antenna coupling and plate tuning controls which have very nice vernier reduction drive and 0-100 scale for logging purposes. Requires 1500V DC at 200 mA (400 mA peak) for the plate supply and 6.3v AC at 8 amps for the filament supply. Dimensions: 19" X 7.5" X 9" deep. Available for $150.00 plus shipping. Pictures and details at: http://www.af4k.com/radios.htm
Re: [AMRadio] part needed
it has various voltages available, from 18 - 75 volts I THINK.. don't have the specs in front of me right now. 100-250ma would work.. nothing heavy needed here A low power "control transformer" might work. They have multiple windings, and can be set up to deliver multiples of 120 volts, with midtap. I have seen them at hamfests for pennies. A 150 V-A unit is about the size of your fist. Even the smallest ones should deliver 500 MA or so. Don k4kyv
Re: [AMRadio] part needed
it has various voltages available, from 18 - 75 volts I THINK.. don't have the specs in front of me right now. 100-250ma would work.. nothing heavy needed here R -- Original Message --- From: "GBrown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of AM Radio" Sent: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:05:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [AMRadio] part needed > Ronnie: > What's the voltage a mils rating your looking for? I mite have > one on the shelf. Regards, Gary...WZ1M > - Original Message - > From: "ronnie.hull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 9:47 AM > Subject: [AMRadio] part needed > > > anyone out there have a utc s-51 bias transformer they will part with? > > > > thanks > > > > w5sum > > > > Ronnie > > > > > > __ > > AMRadio mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net > > > > > > __ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net --- End of Original Message ---
Re: [AMRadio] part needed
Ronnie: What's the voltage a mils rating your looking for? I mite have one on the shelf. Regards, Gary...WZ1M - Original Message - From: "ronnie.hull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 9:47 AM Subject: [AMRadio] part needed > anyone out there have a utc s-51 bias transformer they will part with? > > thanks > > w5sum > > Ronnie > > > __ > AMRadio mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net > >
[AMRadio] Hams making comms possible
It doesn't exactly highlight AM operation, but it does put a positive light on Ham Radio, in general. -Geoff/W5OMR http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB112597561578132422-IFjfINklaJ4nZunaoGGb6uFm4,00.html As Telecom Reels From Storm Damage, Ham Radios Hum By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL September 6, 2005; Page A19 MONROE, La. -- In a shelter here, 300 miles north of New Orleans, Theo McDaniel took his plight to a young man fiddling with a clunky, outdated-looking radio. Mr. McDaniel, a 25-year-old barber, had evacuated New Orleans with his wife and two small children more than a week ago and since then had had no contact with his brother or his aunt. The last he heard, his 42-year-old aunt was clinging to her roof. "We've got to get a message down there to help them," he said. The man at the radio sent the information to the emergency-operations center across town, which relayed it to rescue units in New Orleans. Later in the weekend, Mr. McDaniel learned that food and water were on the way to his trapped brother and his brother's young family. He had heard nothing about his aunt. With Hurricane Katrina having knocked out nearly all the high-end emergency communications gear, 911 centers, cellphone towers and normal fixed phone lines in its path, ham-radio operators have begun to fill the information vacuum. "Right now, 99.9% of normal communications in the affected region is nonexistent," says David Gore, the man operating the ham radio in the Monroe shelter. "That's where we come in." In an age of high-tech, real-time gadgetry, it's the decidedly unsexy ham radio -- whose technology has changed little since World War II -- that is in high demand in ravaged New Orleans and environs. The Red Cross issued a request for about 500 amateur radio operators -- known as "hams" -- for the 260 shelters it is erecting in the area. The American Radio Relay League, a national association of ham-radio operators, has been deluged with requests to find people in the region. The U.S. Coast Guard is looking for hams to help with its relief efforts. Ham radios, battery operated, work well when others don't in part because they are simple. Each operator acts as his own base station, requiring only his radio and about 50 feet of fence wire to transmit messages thousands of miles. Ham radios can send messages on multiple channels and in myriad ways, including Morse code, microwave frequencies and even email. Then there are the ham-radio operators themselves, a band of radio enthusiasts who spend hours jabbering with each other even during normal times. They are often the first to get messages in and out of disaster areas, in part because they are everywhere. (The ARRL estimates there are 250,000 licensed hams in the U.S.) Sometimes they are the only source of information in the first hours following a disaster. "No matter how good the homeland-security system is, it will be overwhelmed," says Thomas Leggett, a retired mill worker manning a ham radio in the operations center here. "You don't hear about us, but we are there." Slidell, a town 30 miles northeast of New Orleans, was directly hit by the hurricane and remains virtually cut off from the outside world. One of the few, if not the only, communications links is Michael King, a retired Navy captain, operating a ham radio out of a Slidell hospital. "How are you holding up, Mike?" asked Sharon Riviere into a ham-radio microphone at Monroe's operations center. She and her husband, Ron, who is the president of the Slidell ham-radio club, had evacuated before the storm to the home of some fellow ham-radio enthusiasts in Monroe. She said Mr. King had been working 20-hour days since the storm hit. Crackling static and odd, garbled sounds followed her question to Mr. King. Then he replied: "It's total devastation here. I've got 18 feet of water at my house. Johnny's Café down there has water up to its roof." Ms. Riviere asked about her own home, which is not far from Mr. King's. "It's full of mud," Mr. King replied. "Looks like someone's been slugging it out in there." Ham radios are often most effective as one link in a chain of communication devices. Early last week, someone trapped with 15 people on a roof of a New Orleans home tried unsuccessfully to get through to a 911 center on his cellphone. He was able to call a relative in Baton Rouge, who in turn called another relative, Sybil Hayes, in Broken Arrow, Okla. Ms. Hayes, whose 81-year-old aunt was among those stranded on the New Orleans roof, then called the Red Cross in Broken Arrow, which handed the message to its affiliated ham-radio operator, Ben Joplin. Via stations in Oregon, Idaho and Louisiana, Mr. Joplin got the message to rescue workers who were able to save the 15 people on the roof, according to the ARRL, based in Newington, Conn. "We are like the Pony Express," says the 26-year-old Mr. Gore, wearing black cowboy boots. "One way or the other, even by hand, we
Re: [AMRadio] part needed
Hi Ronnie What's it for maybe I have a sub. 73 Chris VE3NGW South Florida ronnie.hull wrote: anyone out there have a utc s-51 bias transformer they will part with? thanks w5sum Ronnie __ AMRadio mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net
[AMRadio] part needed
anyone out there have a utc s-51 bias transformer they will part with? thanks w5sum Ronnie
