Re: [AMRadio] Collecting vs. Hoarding (was: Value of Homebrew RIgs)
Be careful Geoff I might take you up on that! San Antonio ain't far from Houston and I like the food there too! Barry, KF5GC --- W5OMR/Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anthony W. DePrato wrote: ok i have 2 valiants and 3 ht 32's so who wants to buy these and come to ky and load them up.? also have a few sx 62a's. That's a good lead to follow, Tony... I've got three HT-37's. 2 work, one is a parts donor (with the parts back in it, it'd work, too). I have three Halliscratcher SX-73's (R-274's). I'll let -one- of *those* go, but you gotta come to San Antonio, TX to get any of it. I'll haul any of the beasties out to your vehicle. After that, it's -your- hernia :-) -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR __ AMRadio mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami, Paul Courson/wa3vjb __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [AMRadio] Re: OUT SOURCE OUT OF COUNTRY TECH HELP
Linux is only secure until more people use it and the hackers think they can get enough of a kick out of their destructive behavior by writing viruses for Linux instead of Windows. Same for MacIntosh Operating System. It is already becomming more of a problem there because hackers see more use of that platform, so it is more fun for them. Tom K3TVC - Original Message - From: Joseph Bento [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of AM Radio amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 9:07 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Re: OUT SOURCE OUT OF COUNTRY TECH HELP Linux is the only way to go for the ham operator. Open Office is every bit as good as MS Office, everything in the operating system is customizable, and there are scores of radio related programs available. I still occasionally use WinXP, but my Linux machine now does everything I need from logging, e-mail, web surfing, photo editing, schematic capture / drawing, etc. Best advantage, it's free, and it's secure. 73 de Joe, N6DGY Pleasant Grove, UT On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 12:07 -0500, Radio Station W5AMI wrote: I'm not biased...the fact that I was one of the 14,000 employees laid off by IBM in 2002 has no impact on my opinion. hi hi I'm not sure how, but I'm sure Micro$oft fits somewhere into all this too ;) __ AMRadio mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami, Paul Courson/wa3vjb
Re: [AMRadio] Collecting vs. Hoarding (was: Value of Homebrew RIgs)
Barry Sherwood wrote: Be careful Geoff I might take you up on that! San Antonio ain't far from Houston and I like the food there too! Barry, KF5GC I ain't skert! ;-) and I -do- need the space (and the money) -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR
Re: [AMRadio] Collecting vs. Hoarding (was: Value of Homebrew RIgs)
Hi Geoff i have two HT 37's also one is in the shop needs work but can be repaired. am 60 in Nov and decided 3 yrs ago that if i retired and worked 8 hrs a day restoring i would never get them all done so i some almost 300 units to a guy in N.C. and have been selling a few off here and there. down to maybe 25 or 30 units. yes i have a Hernia from lifting all that stuff over the years hi hi.. drop by Somerset Ky sometime I will wheel it out to u but u load it hi hi.. 73 Tony At 10:24 PM 7/14/2006, you wrote: Anthony W. DePrato wrote: ok i have 2 valiants and 3 ht 32's so who wants to buy these and come to ky and load them up.? also have a few sx 62a's. That's a good lead to follow, Tony... I've got three HT-37's. 2 work, one is a parts donor (with the parts back in it, it'd work, too). I have three Halliscratcher SX-73's (R-274's). I'll let -one- of *those* go, but you gotta come to San Antonio, TX to get any of it. I'll haul any of the beasties out to your vehicle. After that, it's -your- hernia :-) -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR __ AMRadio mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami, Paul Courson/wa3vjb Anthony W. DePrato WA4JQS QCWA # 23602 10X # 3621 A1-OP FISTS # 10573 AMI # 1274 NCDXF # 1036 RNARS # 1309 SKCC # 1227 DXCC PHONE DXCC RTTY DXCC CW Lis. 1962 Calls Held VP8BZL VP8SSI 3Y0PI V31SS ZD8JQS WA4JQS/ZS1 WA4JQS/4K1 WA4JQS/KC4
Linux for Hams [AMRadio] (was: OUT SOURCE OUT OF COUNTRY TECH HELP)
Speaking of Linux (and I've had a few questions here from my posting of using Linux for my 'do everything' box) the question was asked in a local LUG (Linux Users Group) of what advancements have come in the last 5 years to make Linux better. One of the replies was quite illuminating. --- While not strictly a desktop technology, I'd vote one of the most important innovations Linux has brought us is SECURITY. Not having to worry about unknown flaws in proprietary code is a relief. If correctly configured, any linux desktop computer is safe on the internet with maximum flexibility and capability. Another real winner for Linux is supercomputing. Virtually all supercomputers use Linux nowadays, Beowulf systems are what everyone uses for movie rendering, weather forecasting, astronomy, modeling, geological applications, genomics, search engines, large server applications, and many more. And don't forget the best of all: FREE computing. Linux doesn't cost anything. Which goes to show, the best things in life are free. As for strictly desktop applications, I'd vote for gimp, openoffice, KDE, the many great browsers, VNC and vmware. AccessGrid is another killer app. And what would backups be without rsync? There isn't a utility or programming language that doesn't work great under Linux, so all of them are on my list. The list goes on with all the great servers, like apache, samba, MySQL, etc. -- Some of you 'recycled teenagers' might remember that song anything you can do, I can do better. That's what Linux is saying to Windows, now. There are more and more countries getting away from Micro$oft on a daily basis becuase they don't want to be 'held hostage by the licensing fees'. I see this as a good thing. Another thing about Linux.. there are Ham Radio applications written strictly -for- Linux. Native ax.25 support, kernel-level built-in modules for all the digital modes, and the client software to run 'em, and more. There's just not enough -good- that could be said about the Linux operating system. It matters not (a lot) of which flavor of distribution you get (there's several: SuSE, Fedora, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, LFS (Linux from Scratch), Damn SMall Linux (fits on a floppy), BSD, Yellowdog, and on, and on... but it's all Linux under the hood. Kinda like running a single 4-1000 with 2000v on the plate and 500mA of plate current is 1kW, as is a pair of 833's with 3500v @ just under 300mA is 1kW. Different tubes and voltages, same carrier. Google What is Linux (with quotes), or just to go http://www.sourceforge.net To further educate yourself, take a look at what 'Open Source' software is. -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR
Re: [AMRadio] Collecting vs. Hoarding (was: Value of Homebrew RIgs)
I will join in here with Tony, and say this It ain't like that at all! However I have 1 HT-32 MK1, 2 HT32As and 2 HT32Bs, and I will sell them each at a cost of 590.00 per unit, pickup only. As we all are aware, good intentions don't do it, money talks and B.S. walks! I find it very laudable that folks abhor people that spend their money on what they want. Do what they want with the things they buy, and when the individual, says give me this much and it's yours, THERE ARE NO TAKERS! Back into the dungeon, for me. Jim WB2FCN Quoted lines were left in to protect the innocent! - Original Message - From: Anthony W. DePrato [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of AM Radio amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 9:45 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Collecting vs. Hoarding (was: Value of Homebrew RIgs) At 11:08 AM 7/14/2006 -0400, Todd, KA1KAQ wrote: On 7/14/06, Theo Bellamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Just my opinion - if you feel I have stepped on anyone's toes, that's ok. I probably did. If you have ten John Valiants in your basement I think you should sell some of them. ok i have 2 valiants and 3 ht 32's so who wants to buy these and come to ky and load them up.? also have a few sx 62a's. 73 Tony wa4jqs
[AMRadio] computer software service decent
I recently had the opportunity to spend a few hours on the phone with Microslop's customer service, troubleshooting and fixing a stuck system that kept wanting to install the Office application on CD, even though I had a formerly well running copy. When I put the master disk in the drive, it would still ask for it, and was stuck on this for as long as I tried to reboot, even uninstalled and reinstalled Office (Excel, Word and Powerpoint are the three apps that I use the most at work on PC). The first person to answer was in the East somewhere (maybe India?), and his accent and mine didn't work well, as I was having to give him the key number off the disk - that really long string of numbers and letters separated by hyphens. Finally this first line answerer forwarded me to Nova Scotia where I got a professional, who spent most of the time on the line, working through various attempts at correcting the boo boo. I commented about that silly message that always incorrectly gives remaining time it will take to install something, and he laughed and said don't pay it any attention. Eventually we got down to the registry being corrupted, so we removed all of the references to Microslop Office, and rebooted, and it fixed the problem. Pray that their next generation WINDOZE and application software are more stable. Meanwhile I use the Mac OS 10.4 for most important work, and save the PC for webbrowsing and a few dedicated applications to DOS. 73 John K5PRO
[AMRadio] FS: $5 Ham Radio Electronic items
FOR SALE - E-MAIL ME PRIVATELY ABOUT THESE $5 Items to sell - most of these are new items Mobile Antenna Ball Mount, used. Two USA Cables Two HDMI Cables 4 Classic Radio Knobs, some used. 100 Watt low pass filter, stops TVI, SO-239 connectors. Antenna Relay with three SO-239 Connectors, used. Twenty-five HC49 Crystals on 6.492 MHz QTY 9 - New 2N6341 Power Transistors, TO3. QTY 8 - New RCA 151-0112 Power Transistors, TO3. Antique headset with boom microphone, brown cloth cord, used. QTY 2 - Crystal ovens, octal 12V for HC6U crystals. QTY 1 - Edison 115V Delay Relay, 45 seconds, N.O. contacts 3amps. FT-243 Crystals for 1977.5 kHz FT-243 Crystals for 7000 kHz 7106.6 kHz, 7140 kHz 120V AC circuit breaker ON/OFF power switch, 7.5 Amps Audio Transformer 1:1, 600 ohms 10 turn wirewound potentiometer, 10 k-ohms, with 1/4 X 1/2 shaft. Assortment of 10 high voltage ceramic capacitors, 3 to 6 kV. Superstar mobile microphone, with good coil cord, 4-pin plug, used FT101E style microphone with 8-pin connector. Not sure what rig, used. Kenwood HT battery charger type WO9-0315, used. Computer PCI card with one parallel and 1 serial port. All of the above items are $5.00 each plus shipping. Combine items to save on shipping.
[AMRadio] FS: E.F. Johnson 6N2 VFO
FOR SALE: E.F. Johnson 6N2 VFO. - very good condition. This VFO unit comes with an 8-pin (octal) power supply plug and a 1/4-inch phone jack for the signal output. It was used until a few years ago with an old AM rig on the two meter band and it was very stable and accurate, typical of wonderful E.F. Johnson equipment from the old days. This VFO will cover both the six and two meter bands and will make a great addition to your vintage station for these bands. Available for $65.00 plus shippping. For picture and details see: http://www.af4k.com/radios.htm Please reply only via private e-mail, not to the list. 73 de AF4K, Brian
[AMRadio] CHU
Is CHU-Canada on the air on 7335 Khz. I cannot hear them and, yes, I did connect the antenna!! Thank Dave, W3ST Publisher of the Collins Journal Secretary to the Collins Radio Association www.collinsra.com - the CRA Website Now with PayPal CRA Nets: 3805 Khz every Monday at 8 PM EST and 14255 every Saturday at 12 Noon EST
Re: [AMRadio] CHU
Hi Dave, I have beeh having a lot of trouble hearing CHU here also. Used to get them on my TR-7 with NO antenna connected! Now I cannot hear them on my Sony Yacht Boy! 73, John, W4AWM
Re: [AMRadio] CHU
PS, Just checked and there is nothing there. I am hearing WWV on 10 and 15MHz. John
Re: [AMRadio] CHU
John, Suggest you check the bilge, maybe your yacht sank. Larry K2LT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave, I have beeh having a lot of trouble hearing CHU here also. Used to get them on my TR-7 with NO antenna connected! Now I cannot hear them on my Sony Yacht Boy! 73, John, W4AWM __ AMRadio mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami, Paul Courson/wa3vjb
Re: [AMRadio] CHU
Hi Larry, Mast is still up and receiver works on WWV...Blub, blub! 73, John
RE: [AMRadio] CHU
Check 3335 and 14670. See if they're there. Could be down for maintenance? Ed, VA3ES Dave, W3ST Wrote: Is CHU-Canada on the air on 7335 Khz. I cannot hear them and, yes, I did connect the antenna!! Thank Dave, W3ST
Re: [AMRadio] CHU
Hi Ed. I have them on 14.670, but not on 7.335. Have them both on the TR-7 with no antenna and the Yacht Boy. You may be correct about the maintenance. I can usually hear 7.335 24/7. 73, John, W4AWM
[AMRadio] Interesting FM Bcast Propagation
Hello, I was listening to my usual station 93.9 North Hampton MA yesterday, ( Friday), which is about 50 miles or so east over the mountain when it faded out and was replaced by 93.7 from Albany NY about 40 miles west over another mountain. This reception was swinging between the two stations in a similar fashion to AM QSB but without the phasing for several hours in the afternoon. Tuning in between the frequencies yielded the usual distortion and if I tuned to the 93.7 station it was receiving the same way with the cross fade between the two stations perfect. Now the signals from both stations are normally just at or below the stereo detection point using an SAE 8000 analog tuner. But without the shifting. Antenna is a normal 300 ohm inside FM balanced dipole broadside E/W. I did fire up a wide band receiver to look at the IF spectrum but the signals were so close to the noise floor that any measurements were not possible, although enough of the levels were visible to see the see-saw strength between the two stations. There is a 1000 ft+ N/S mountain ridge immediate west and another one to the east about 5 miles. This behavior has been heard several times especially when there are significant temperature gradients low in the atmosphere. I would suspect that however the reflective or ducting effect is producing this could be visualized as similar to the waves on the surface of a pond reflecting light at a slow rate. IE, consistent, slow ripples over a thermal reflective layer of the ionosphere. I am just surprised at the short distance and would think that there would be technique to take measurements of the distance involved and determine the actual height of the reflective layer. Just an interesting observation of propagation i had not observed before moving here to MA. Has anyone here in the NE ever noticed similar propagation with 6 or 2 mtrs? Bill KB3DKS/1 Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email and IM. All on demand. Always Free.
[AMRadio] Anyone Using Tek 5403/5440/5441 or Similar?
At the North Hills hamfest on July 9, I picked up a Tek 5403 'scope (also known as 5440 or 5441) with 3 plug-ins in excellent looking but non-working condition. It lights up but gets no trace at all. Rooting around on the web, this looks like a 40-60mhz precursor to the 7000 series. It also looks like it doesn't have much value. Is anyone using this 'scope? Any thoughts about whether it's worth trying to get it operational or not? Advice appreciated. 73, Don Merz, N3RHT The information contained in this e-mail may be confidential and is intended solely for the use of the named addressee. Access, copying or re-use of the e-mail or any information contained therein by any other person is not authorized. If you are not the intended recipient please notify us immediately by returning the e-mail to the originator.(16b)
[AMRadio] Nonsense from Russia
Did anyone else get this ? $52 ?!? Who are they kidding? --- HAM Radio Association [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Colleagues, Our Association distributes the Russian CallBook (English Version) containing detailed and updated information on all Russian HAM radio operators. It also contains: 1. Detailed information about the DX Expeditions which will take place in the nearest future. 2. Information about the diplomas. 3. List with names and addresses of Russian collectors of HAM equipment. Should you be interested in ordering this directory, please write us to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The price is 52 US dollars, including the shipping to your country. Sincerely yours, Mr. Andrey Pronin, HAM Radio Association. Russia. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
