Re: [AMRadio] Another Get on the Air Night
On Nov 23, 2007 4:10 AM, Geoff/W5OMR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Duke, K5XU wrote: We have the anniversary date of the expansion coming up on December 16. Why not take to the air down there in the new territory again that evening as was done last year. I'll be there if my local utility gets rid of the noise they finally located last week. Why wait till then? Get on NOW! Was gonna say...many of us actually take advantage of the expanded phone privileges on a regular basis and have for nearly a year now. It shouldn't take a net, anniversary, or any other 'special event' to get folks on the air down below 3800 or elsewhere. ~ Todd, KA1KAQ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Another Get on the Air Night
Todd, It was good to hear you on 160 the other night albeit your signal was weak. You're right, we need to demonstrate that the band expansion was a good thing. The only way we can do that is by making greater use of our privileges. Just a passing thought. We seem very inclined to participate in activity on 75M in the new expansion, but has there been any increase in activity in the expanded portion of 40M? Mod-U-Lator, Mike(y) W3SLK - Original Message - From: Todd, KA1KAQ To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 7:58 AM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Another Get on the Air Night Was gonna say...many of us actually take advantage of the expanded phone privileges on a regular basis and have for nearly a year now. It shouldn't take a net, anniversary, or any other 'special event' to get folks on the air down below 3800 or elsewhere. ~ Todd, KA1KAQ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Old AM'ers
On Nov 22, 2007 10:30 AM, Larry Szendrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Licensed since 1983, but been playing with radio all my life. Learned to solder when I was 7; built a lot of broadcast SWL radios when I was a kid, and guitar amps through high school college. I can't believe it; in 2008 I'll be able to join QCWA (if I decide that's something I want to do). Got on AM on 1984 and never left it. Although 99% of my operation is AM, I also run CW, RTTY, SSB, and have played around with PSK31 and other digital modes. Never realized we were nearly twins, Larry. (o: I was also licensed in '83, sometime in March. Was the best solderer in my class long before being licensed too, often got to take an early coffee break whilst others caught up. Got to AM a bit later than you (late 80s), and also enjoy(ed) CW and SSB (DX chasing mainly). Time became more of an issue over the years so, like you, AM wins out for the little time I have available. But I hold out hope for more CW time and maybe some additional SSB DX hunting someday. 25 years...where did it go, and how did it go so fast?? ~ Todd, KA1KAQ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Old AM'ers
On Nov 24, 2007 3:03 PM, Larry Szendrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahh, not only dense, but senile, too ;) Perfect. You qualify! Just send money, then forget and send money again in 2 months, and again, and again... The ARRL needs to think of a hook like that to stay afloat. ~ Todd, KA1KAQ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] FS: 813's
813's $25.00 each or 6 for $150.00 with free shipping. 73, Bob,W4WSZ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] RE: [BOATANCHORS-TEMPE] Shipping etc.
On Nov 25, 2007 2:07 PM, jeremy-ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I refer to them as FedWrex. Ive pretty much stopped Ebay buying from sellers that insist on using them. The last one was a mint 1928 Philco 511 radio and speaker. Both double boxed. The radio got dented and the speaker totally destroyed. Still fighting for payment. Not sure if I ever posted the update for my FedEx claim on the KW-1 mod iron, but they did finally pay up. Well, $473 and change, the price I provided from Dahl's most recent (2004) online catalog plus shipping apparently. They managed to break one of the cast iron frames from severe mishandling, over the short 200-300 mile distance between Maine and Vermont. On an package of approximately 35-40 lbs! Seems the only holdup was getting some kind of 'statement of value' for the item, before they would pay out what was insured for (or at least, close to it). Lessons learned: proper, appropriate, extra packaging is not enough. Over-over packing can't hurt, but no guarantees. When it's your turn, it's your turn. They have claims adjusters who (in my opinion) want to see just how determined you are to press your claim. If 50% of the people get discouraged, that saves them a lot of $. Be persistent, get your ducks in a row, keep good records of all contacts. Lastly, be aware that when you provide a value with documentation, this is likely what they will go by. If your figure is less than the insured amount, tough luck. I could only find one source, fortunately it was close to the insured value. Hauled the transformer along on a recent trip to pick up a transmitter in north central Maine, stopped by WZ1M's place with it. Hypot testing showed the windings are still good, no shorts or other internal damage. Gary removed the potting around the frame and we 'persuaded' it off the core, now I need to get it welded and re-installed. I've never had any problems shipping with UPS, but it's clear now that luck plays a role along with good packing. ~ Todd, KA1KAQ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] 813's Price Correction
813's $20.00 each Buy 6 for $120.00 and shipping is free. 73, Bob,W4WSZ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Another Get on the Air Night
On Nov 26, 2007 8:39 AM, Mike Sawyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd, It was good to hear you on 160 the other night albeit your signal was weak. You're right, we need to demonstrate that the band expansion was a good thing. The only way we can do that is by making greater use of our privileges. Just a passing thought. We seem very inclined to participate in activity on 75M in the new expansion, but has there been any increase in activity in the expanded portion of 40M? Mike, my experience with 40 has been a lot different due to the more 'propogationally-volatile' nature of the band. Someone mentioned over the long weekend that 40 had started to settle down some, so perhaps we'll see better opportunities there soon. I know there has been some AM activity down much lower on that band. Folks need to get used to the idea of finding an open frequency and using it. Simple as that. If half the people who say I tuned down below but didn't hear anyone actually put out a call, think of the activity there'd be. Waiting for someone else to do it for you won't provide good results. There are maybe 2 dozen folks down between 3705-3725 regularly, not counting the Canadians. A few more if you add the guys who use 3685. I hear Brian, Kent, and the old dawg down there when the band is quiet enough, so I know there's regular activity in other parts of the country too. Old habits just die harder for some folks. The 160 ant is on the 'to do' list, that should help my signal. Was using the 80m low dipole into a T with a large broadcast dummy load into the other side. It works, but that's about it. Your signal was large and loud into VT. ~ Todd, KA1KAQ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
RE: [AMRadio] To ship or not to ship
Thanks for the replies and suggestions. I have to decide on a price and such before I go any further. It sounds like it will be feasible to ship. Rick/K5IAR __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] IARU - VP ARRL contact by WD5BZO
The B/C committee of Region 2 was chartered with developing the revised Region 2 band plan based on the structure and fill of the existing Region 1 band plan with regional and frequency differences taken into account. Since the voluntary Region 1 band plan has been in existence since January 2006, what rules are the amateurs in these countries covered by Region 1 following. We know that a number of U. S. amateurs have worked European stations on 75 over the last several months. Are the European amateurs actually limiting their AM bandwidth to 2700 Hz. Pete, wa2cwa No. But the Region 1 band plan carries the following preferred mode and usage note: All modes - CW, SSB and those modes listed as Centres of Activity, plus AM (Consideration should be given to adjacent channel users). This appears to grant an exception to the 2700Hz bandwidth provision, since that is too narrow for DSB AM to operate, and the statement regarding consideration of adjacent channel users implies that AM signals would be expected to occupy more than the standard 2700 Hz bandwidth. Not that it's desirable for AM to be reduced to a footnote that grants non-compliance in the form of a special case exception, but the Region 2 plan doesn't even contain that. Instead, AM is relegated to 40m plus a few narrow windows in 75m, 20m and 10m, but no AM operation at all is recommended on 160m, 15m, 17m or 12m. Don k4kyv __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
RE: [AMRadio] To ship or not to ship
Todd... Thank you very much. I actually had not thought of that, you are absolutely right. Thanks, Rick/K5IAR Rick - If you do decide to ship, I'd strongly recommend you wait now until *after* the holiday rush, maybe mid-January to be safe. This is the absolute worst time of year for damage, lost items, and so on due to the increased load within the same time requirements. ~ Todd, KA1KAQ __ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] 813's SOLD
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RE: [AMRadio] To ship or not to ship
I had an R390a shipped by UPS. They managed to bend the front panel. It worked but a crystal filter was bad also. They really had to drop it from a height. I put in a claim and the adjuster showed up and took pictures and left. I got a letter a couple of days later stating that the claim was denied. I called the guy who sold it to me who told me he just dropped the R390a at a UPS store for packing and shipping. They originally denied the claim as item improperly packed They eventually coughed up about $450.00 when they were given the proof that their UPS store had packed it. My other claims from UPS have been denied as improperly packed item. I have had better luck with Fed Ex. Glenn kc2fzv from Herat Afghanistan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Brashear Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 9:31 PM To: 'Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service' Subject: [AMRadio] To ship or not to ship I am thinking seriously about selling my Valiant and NC-183 and wonder if I should take a chance on shipping either or both? The Valiant is very heavy as you all know and the NC-183 is no light weight. If I don't agree to ship it will certainly limit the possibility of selling them. What do ya'll have to say? I received both via FedEx or UPS, I don't remember now, and both were undamaged. Thanks for any input.. Rick/K5IAR __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] Thank a Vet (topic change)
Glenn Zemanek wrote: Glenn kc2fzv from Herat Afghanistan Every day of Freedom, is a Good day to Thank a Veteran! Thanks, Glenn. -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] NC 183 mil VLF receiver for sale
Carl, For a few years I had a NC-183DR here that was a diversity version dome by Northern Radio? I think Interesting as the highest tuning band was gone. I talked to a few people who had them and one guy who had the M.O. for the syatem. I was wondering if you were involved with these? Did they buy standard units from you and rework them or, as I suspect, did you guys build a special version for them? John KB1FQG - Original Message From: jeremy-ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 10:52:43 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] NC 183 mil VLF receiver for sale I guess it is one of a kind as the R-651/URR-39 is based around a NC-183DR. These show up occassionally on Ebay at reasonable prices. A true NC-183DR (not modified with VLF and the uncalibrated bandspread dial) brings a much higher price. Carl KM1H National Radio 1963-69 - Original Message - From: uvcm inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service' amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 9:14 PM Subject: [AMRadio] NC 183 mil VLF receiver for sale If anyone needs a NATIONAL MODEL NUMBER NC 183 MR MILITARY MODEL NUMBER SYSTEM IS AN/URR-39 SER# 174, RADIO MODEL # R-651/URR-39 WITH VLF, RACK MT-1529/U, MATCHING SPEAKER LS-228/U, WITH NATIONAL BADGE STOCK SHOCK MOUNTS RACK RAIL COVERS 9 PLUS CONDITION ONE OF A KIND SERIOUS OFFERS ONLY REPLY OFF LIST N7RCA [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] NC 183 mil VLF receiver for sale
National built just the receiver to their spec. They did all the diversity work. I wasnt there yet but saw the order in the files as we continued to supply spares and replacement parts. A lot of strange stuff went out of there built to order. I have an NBS-1 which is probably the rarest of them all at least since the early 30's. Carl - Original Message - From: John Flood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 1:13 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] NC 183 mil VLF receiver for sale Carl, For a few years I had a NC-183DR here that was a diversity version dome by Northern Radio? I think Interesting as the highest tuning band was gone. I talked to a few people who had them and one guy who had the M.O. for the syatem. I was wondering if you were involved with these? Did they buy standard units from you and rework them or, as I suspect, did you guys build a special version for them? John KB1FQG - Original Message From: jeremy-ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 10:52:43 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] NC 183 mil VLF receiver for sale I guess it is one of a kind as the R-651/URR-39 is based around a NC-183DR. These show up occassionally on Ebay at reasonable prices. A true NC-183DR (not modified with VLF and the uncalibrated bandspread dial) brings a much higher price. Carl KM1H National Radio 1963-69 - Original Message - From: uvcm inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service' amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 9:14 PM Subject: [AMRadio] NC 183 mil VLF receiver for sale If anyone needs a NATIONAL MODEL NUMBER NC 183 MR MILITARY MODEL NUMBER SYSTEM IS AN/URR-39 SER# 174, RADIO MODEL # R-651/URR-39 WITH VLF, RACK MT-1529/U, MATCHING SPEAKER LS-228/U, WITH NATIONAL BADGE STOCK SHOCK MOUNTS RACK RAIL COVERS 9 PLUS CONDITION ONE OF A KIND SERIOUS OFFERS ONLY REPLY OFF LIST N7RCA [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] HRO-50
I'm having trouble doing an alignment on the plug-in coils for a HRO-50. Is there a better way to adjust these coils other than pull them out, make an adjustment, plug them in, etc. The problem seems to be at the low end of the band adjustment where you need to get at the back of the coils. I have a spectrum analyzer but I just can't seem to isolate the area where I need to be looking. Thanks in advance. Mod-U-Lator, Mike(y) W3SLK __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] HRO-50
Fun isn't it Mike. That is the way. If there is an easier way, I would like to see it. Jim/W5JO I'm having trouble doing an alignment on the plug-in coils for a HRO-50. Is there a better way to adjust these coils other than pull them out, make an adjustment, plug them in, etc. The problem seems to be at the low end of the band adjustment where you need to get at the back of the coils. I have a spectrum analyzer but I just can't seem to isolate the area where I need to be looking. Thanks in advance. Mod-U-Lator, Mike(y) W3SLK __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] HRO-50
On the topic of the HRO-50 - Is anyone familiar with a product detector mod that plugs into the NBFM socket and uses a single 6J6? This one gets around the usual problem of having no way to turn on the BFO when in the NBFM position. The stock AM detector is disabled and BFO runs all the time, with the plug-in providing both AM and CW detection. It's pretty clever, just wonder who deserves the credit. 73, Bob W9RAN __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] HRO-50
What a pain in the scrote. The manual says to adjust the coils for the low end of the band, (in this case, I'm using coil set D 1.8-4.0M GC 3,5-4.0 BS) and there aren't any adj. available. I looked in the in each coil set and I can see the coil but it looks as though it was designed not to be adj. and I'm hesitant about attempting to adj. them. The only one that has an adjustment for GC is D-4. It worked well on 160 but it was damn near deaf on 75M. I wanted to make it back to standard but its a real tough go. I should have left well enough alone. Well, in for a penny, in for a pound. Mod-U-Lator, Mike(y) W3SLK - Original Message - From: Jim Wilhite To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] HRO-50 Fun isn't it Mike. That is the way. If there is an easier way, I would like to see it. Jim/W5JO __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Spark gap transmitter
A Model T spark coil, a key and an antenna. Carl KM1H - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 3:55 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Spark gap transmitter This is a bit of the subject..Iam in need of a schematic and detailed construction notes for a spark gap transmitter..It will be used in an upcoming exhibit..Thanks in advance.. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Spark gap transmitter
A DC buzzer. When power is applied, it will make and break rapidly, transmitting a continuous noise when the switch is on, or when the key is down. I once connected a morse code practice key with such a buzzer, and a 1.5V D cell battery, to an antenna, and it was audible on the AM broadcast band for several hundred feet. Bacon, WA3WDR __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Spark gap transmitter
This is a bit of the subject..Iam in need of a schematic and detailed construction notes for a spark gap transmitter..It will be used in an upcoming exhibit..Thanks in advance.. A Model T spark coil, a key and an antenna. Carl KM1H There is usually at least one tank circuit (not counting the antenna itself) involved, as well. (Does the term jigger ring a bell?) I'm sure I've got period schematics SOMEWHERE, just don't remember quite where. 73, -Larry/NE1S __ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] HRO-50
- Original Message - Subject: Re: [AMRadio] HRO-50 Date: Mon, November 26, 2007 16:03 From: Mike Sawyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] What a pain in the scrote. I agree. Still, when the 1st HRO came out, nothing else on the market could touch it. The manual says to adjust the coils for the low end of the band, (in this case, I'm using coil set D 1.8-4.0M GC 3,5-4.0 BS) and there aren't any adj. available. I looked in the in each coil set and I can see the coil but it looks as though it was designed not to be adj. and I'm hesitant about attempting to adj. them. For the low end of the bands there is a 1/2 turn on the INTERIOR of the coil form that is to be moved either to buck or boost the main winding, or anything in between. Pain in the Scrote sums it up pretty well ;) How you are supposed to make slight adjustments, noting the output level, pull the coil, poke that 1/2 turn a bit, again note the output level, and ultimately find the peak is beyond me. I usually optimize at the top of the band (where trimmer caps are accessible with the coil installed at the top, and watch the output level as I adjust) and take what I get at the bottom of the frequency range - life is too short! Maybe when I retire I'll do the PROPER alignment on my 2 HROs, if I run out of stuff to do... 73/GL, -Larry/NE1S __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Spark gap transmitter
Try contacting N4FS, he may have some information on the subject: http://w2dtc.com/2007-0625-n4fs/n4fs-photo.jpg 73, Ken W2DTC __ Ken Barber Middletown, NJ Radio Website: http://w2dtc.com Paddy Ken Webpages: http://w2dtc.com/index-non-radio.htm __ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 3:55 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Spark gap transmitter This is a bit of the subject..Iam in need of a schematic and detailed construction notes for a spark gap transmitter..It will be used in an upcoming exhibit..Thanks in advance.. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] Hallicrafters SX110
I have a question--why would Hallicrafters use tubes from the 40's in a receiver made in the early 60's?? This seems kinda strange that they would use octal tubes in this unit when the 7 and 9 pin tubes were much better.--- Weren't they?--- Larry Steeno K9LWI __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Hallicrafters SX110
The Halicrafters SX-110 is just a SX-99 with a sliderule dial. It was not a new receiver. Just a new face! Bob Macklin K5MYJ Seattle, Wa, Real Radios Glow in the Dark - Original Message - From: Lawrence Steeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 1:47 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Hallicrafters SX110 I have a question--why would Hallicrafters use tubes from the 40's in a receiver made in the early 60's?? This seems kinda strange that they would use octal tubes in this unit when the 7 and 9 pin tubes were much better.--- Weren't they?--- Larry Steeno K9LWI __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Hallicrafters SX110
Could be as simple as they had lots of these parts on hand and defined a specific production run quantity for both the S-108 and SX-110 to use them all up. Pete, wa2cwa On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:47:55 -0800 (PST) Lawrence Steeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a question--why would Hallicrafters use tubes from the 40's in a receiver made in the early 60's?? This seems kinda strange that they would use octal tubes in this unit when the 7 and 9 pin tubes were much better.--- Weren't they?--- Larry Steeno K9LWI __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Hallicrafters SX110
Lawrence Steeno wrote: I have a question--why would Hallicrafters use tubes from the 40's in a receiver made in the early 60's?? This seems kinda strange that they would use octal tubes in this unit when the 7 and 9 pin tubes were much better.--- Weren't they?--- Larry Steeno K9LWI There was an awful lot of Surplus parts back in those days. The war being recently over, and the major offensive stopped. Suddenly, there was parts galore, all over the place. Many parts were had for pennies on the dollar, back in those days. For that matter, who ever heard of using V70D's instead of 811's? Mil-spec was/is 'weird', to say the least. -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] HRO-50
Mike, My book indicates, like many National receivers, on D band a single loop of wire inside of the coil is bent to add/subtract inductance. I just looked at my RF input coil (opened it up) and there is the wire. The wire is accessible through the left rear hole, looking from the top of the assembly (the side with the contacts). Se page 19 in the HRO50-1 National manual for all the coils. I have seen some cases on some receivers (not an HRO-50) where the range may not be sufficient. Larry W3LW 1 At 04:03 PM 11/26/2007, you wrote: What a pain in the scrote. The manual says to adjust the coils for the low end of the band, (in this case, I'm using coil set D 1.8-4.0M GC 3,5-4.0 BS) and there aren't any adj. available. I looked in the in each coil set and I can see the coil but it looks as though it was designed not to be adj. and I'm hesitant about attempting to adj. them. The only one that has an adjustment for GC is D-4. It worked well on 160 but it was damn near deaf on 75M. I wanted to make it back to standard but its a real tough go. I should have left well enough alone. Well, in for a penny, in for a pound. Mod-U-Lator, Mike(y) W3SLK - Original Message - From: Jim Wilhite To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] HRO-50 Fun isn't it Mike. That is the way. If there is an easier way, I would like to see it. Jim/W5JO __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Spark gap transmitter
Go to this link and select page two . There is a simple schematic Bob W2ZM has built. http://amfone.net/Gallery2/v/stations/zmspark/ Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a bit of the subject..Iam in need of a schematic and detailed construction notes for a spark gap transmitter..It will be used in an upcoming exhibit..Thanks in advance.. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] Howdy Y'all
well Im not dead. Not on the air either, but not dead. With the sale of my precious Globe King 500 I have paid off the last of the doctors after my health issues in 2005. So its back to basics. I have a ranger and a R4C. Thats all thats left of the AM gear.! But I plan on getting on the air with peanut power during the upcoming Christmas Holidays when I have some time off from work. recently built a little 6AG7/6L6 40M cw rig and have been having some fun with it. It still have some chirp issues but I'll get them squared when I have a full day to work on it. anywho, just wanted to say howdy to everyone and hope to work you again real soon. Ronnie - W5SUM __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] To ship or not to ship
The only way to get any satisfaction out of UPS is to file a claim against them in small claims court. With the proper photos and testimony via a notarized letter from the seller that the item was 100% when it was shipped, you will win a judgement nearly every time. Many times, UPS will pay upon receipt of the notice from the court that they are being sued. It is not worth their time to try to defend a suit for a few hundred dollars. Their whole idea is to make trying to collect from them so much trouble that the average individual will eventually just eat his loss and go away. A letter from the court gets their attention. Remember...Document Everything Well. 73, John, W4WM ** Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop000301) __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] HRO-50
Finally, some one actually read the manual! The alignment is actually quite simple once youve been thru it once. The way we determined which way to move that wire was to insert a plastic rod with a piece of aluminum glued on one end and powdered iron on the other. Aluminum decreases the inductance and iron increases it. Carl KM1H National Radio 1963-69 Service Tech, Service Mgr Member of NCL-2000 Design Team - Original Message - From: Larry Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] HRO-50 Mike, My book indicates, like many National receivers, on D band a single loop of wire inside of the coil is bent to add/subtract inductance. I just looked at my RF input coil (opened it up) and there is the wire. The wire is accessible through the left rear hole, looking from the top of the assembly (the side with the contacts). Se page 19 in the HRO50-1 National manual for all the coils. I have seen some cases on some receivers (not an HRO-50) where the range may not be sufficient. Larry W3LW 1 At 04:03 PM 11/26/2007, you wrote: What a pain in the scrote. The manual says to adjust the coils for the low end of the band, (in this case, I'm using coil set D 1.8-4.0M GC 3,5-4.0 BS) and there aren't any adj. available. I looked in the in each coil set and I can see the coil but it looks as though it was designed not to be adj. and I'm hesitant about attempting to adj. them. The only one that has an adjustment for GC is D-4. It worked well on 160 but it was damn near deaf on 75M. I wanted to make it back to standard but its a real tough go. I should have left well enough alone. Well, in for a penny, in for a pound. Mod-U-Lator, Mike(y) W3SLK - Original Message - From: Jim Wilhite To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] HRO-50 Fun isn't it Mike. That is the way. If there is an easier way, I would like to see it. Jim/W5JO __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] Re: HRO-50
Message: 7 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:42:54 -0600 (CST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [AMRadio] HRO-50 To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service amradio@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 - Original Message - Subject: Re: [AMRadio] HRO-50 Date: Mon, November 26, 2007 16:03 From: Mike Sawyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] What a pain in the scrote. I agree. Still, when the 1st HRO came out, nothing else on the market could touch it. The manual says to adjust the coils for the low end of the band, (in this case, I'm using coil set D 1.8-4.0M GC 3,5-4.0 BS) and there aren't any adj. available. I looked in the in each coil set and I can see the coil but it looks as though it was designed not to be adj. and I'm hesitant about attempting to adj. them. For the low end of the bands there is a 1/2 turn on the INTERIOR of the coil form that is to be moved either to buck or boost the main winding, or anything in between. Pain in the Scrote sums it up pretty well ;) How you are supposed to make slight adjustments, noting the output level, pull the coil, poke that 1/2 turn a bit, again note the output level, and ultimately find the peak is beyond me. I usually optimize at the top of the band (where trimmer caps are accessible with the coil installed at the top, and watch the output level as I adjust) and take what I get at the bottom of the frequency range - life is too short! Maybe when I retire I'll do the PROPER alignment on my 2 HROs, if I run out of stuff to do... 73/GL, -Larry/NE1S Those 1/2 turn coils inside of the box aren't that hard to adjust, all you need is patience, three or four times in and out of the radio with the coil box (for each 1/2 turn coil) and it should be OK, they're not real touchy, you just want to get a feel for where each one is at maximum. The more you align HRO's the better and quicker you get, the first one is a learning experience, the coils after that will go quicker and quicker, the peak is broad for the 1/2 turn internal coil. Bob KB1OKL __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] HRO-50
Now that is a technician who knows what he talking about. Thanks, Carl. Dave, W3ST - W3CRA - Original Message - From: jeremy-ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 5:54 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] HRO-50 Finally, some one actually read the manual! The alignment is actually quite simple once youve been thru it once. The way we determined which way to move that wire was to insert a plastic rod with a piece of aluminum glued on one end and powdered iron on the other. Aluminum decreases the inductance and iron increases it. Carl KM1H National Radio 1963-69 Service Tech, Service Mgr Member of NCL-2000 Design Team - Original Message - From: Larry Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] HRO-50 Mike, My book indicates, like many National receivers, on D band a single loop of wire inside of the coil is bent to add/subtract inductance. I just looked at my RF input coil (opened it up) and there is the wire. The wire is accessible through the left rear hole, looking from the top of the assembly (the side with the contacts). Se page 19 in the HRO50-1 National manual for all the coils. I have seen some cases on some receivers (not an HRO-50) where the range may not be sufficient. Larry W3LW 1 At 04:03 PM 11/26/2007, you wrote: What a pain in the scrote. The manual says to adjust the coils for the low end of the band, (in this case, I'm using coil set D 1.8-4.0M GC 3,5-4.0 BS) and there aren't any adj. available. I looked in the in each coil set and I can see the coil but it looks as though it was designed not to be adj. and I'm hesitant about attempting to adj. them. The only one that has an adjustment for GC is D-4. It worked well on 160 but it was damn near deaf on 75M. I wanted to make it back to standard but its a real tough go. I should have left well enough alone. Well, in for a penny, in for a pound. Mod-U-Lator, Mike(y) W3SLK - Original Message - From: Jim Wilhite To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] HRO-50 Fun isn't it Mike. That is the way. If there is an easier way, I would like to see it. Jim/W5JO __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Spark gap transmitter
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Spark gap transmitter This is a bit of the subject..Iam in need of a schematic and detailed construction notes for a spark gap transmitter..It will be used in an upcoming exhibit..Thanks in advance.. A Model T spark coil, a key and an antenna. Carl KM1H There is usually at least one tank circuit (not counting the antenna itself) involved, as well. (Does the term jigger ring a bell?) I'm sure I've got period schematics SOMEWHERE, just don't remember quite where. 73, -Larry/NE1S That came along later when they had a clue what was going on. The original experimenters covered DC to daylight. Oh, dont forget the coupling cap which was home made back then. I dont know the output voltage of a T coil. Carl KM1H Carl KM1H __ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Hallicrafters SX110
The only place the smaller tubes are better is in the front end. At IF, and audio there is no difference. Carl KM1H - Original Message - From: Lawrence Steeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:47 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Hallicrafters SX110 I have a question--why would Hallicrafters use tubes from the 40's in a receiver made in the early 60's?? This seems kinda strange that they would use octal tubes in this unit when the 7 and 9 pin tubes were much better.--- Weren't they?--- Larry Steeno K9LWI __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Howdy Y'all
Ronnie, glad to see your alive and kicking. Best regards, Gary...WZ1M - Original Message - From: ronnie.hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 5:45 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Howdy Y'all well Im not dead. Not on the air either, but not dead. With the sale of my precious Globe King 500 I have paid off the last of the doctors after my health issues in 2005. So its back to basics. I have a ranger and a R4C. Thats all thats left of the AM gear.! But I plan on getting on the air with peanut power during the upcoming Christmas Holidays when I have some time off from work. recently built a little 6AG7/6L6 40M cw rig and have been having some fun with it. It still have some chirp issues but I'll get them squared when I have a full day to work on it. anywho, just wanted to say howdy to everyone and hope to work you again real soon. Ronnie - W5SUM __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Spark gap transmitter
I love the smell of ozone in the morning! Bill, W1AC W2INR wrote: Go to this link and select page two . There is a simple schematic Bob W2ZM has built. http://amfone.net/Gallery2/v/stations/zmspark/ Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a bit of the subject..Iam in need of a schematic and detailed construction notes for a spark gap transmitter..It will be used in an upcoming exhibit..Thanks in advance.. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. -- Lookng back through time you know its clear that i've been blind I've been a fool To open up my heart to all that jealousy that bitterness that ridicule David Gray __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] Re:Howdy Y'all
Hi Ronnie - Good to hear you are still putting out signals. Maybe I can catch you some night on 40M with that Lil glowbug. Keep on keepin' on OM! 73, Mark W1EOF ronnie.hull wrote: well Im not dead. Not on the air either, but not dead. With the sale of my precious Globe King 500 I have paid off the last of the doctors after my health issues in 2005. So its back to basics. I have a ranger and a R4C. Thats all thats left of the AM gear.! But I plan on getting on the air with peanut power during the upcoming Christmas Holidays when I have some time off from work. recently built a little 6AG7/6L6 40M cw rig and have been having some fun with it. It still have some chirp issues but I'll get them squared when I have a full day to work on it. anywho, just wanted to say howdy to everyone and hope to work you again real soon. Ronnie - W5SUM __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] To ship or not to ship
Whenever I ship something really valuable via UPS, I take pictures of the item, both before and after packing, and I mail them to myself as postcards. It's cheap insurance. You must also take care to use a new, properly taped box and adequate impact-absorbing material: UPS and other carriers love to wriggle out of paying based on old box or inadequate packing claims. Sorry to say that Small Claims isn't the first avenue I'd take on a claim: in Massachusetts, it costs about $75 *just to file a claim*, so that eliminates most small items right at the start. For larger items, consider insuring with a separate agency and professional crating. FWIW. YMMV. 73, Bill W1AC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only way to get any satisfaction out of UPS is to file a claim against them in small claims court. With the proper photos and testimony via a notarized letter from the seller that the item was 100% when it was shipped, you will win a judgement nearly every time. Many times, UPS will pay upon receipt of the notice from the court that they are being sued. It is not worth their time to try to defend a suit for a few hundred dollars. Their whole idea is to make trying to collect from them so much trouble that the average individual will eventually just eat his loss and go away. A letter from the court gets their attention. Remember...Document Everything Well. 73, John, W4WM ** Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop000301) __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. -- Lookng back through time you know its clear that i've been blind I've been a fool To open up my heart to all that jealousy that bitterness that ridicule David Gray __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] Don't Under estimate a Ranger
In the early morning and late afternoon hours, a Ranger will deliver a pounding signal on a clear frequency. Having talked with W5SUM once on 10 meters, I know his Ranger sounds great, and will do a good job wherever he operates with it. I too will listen out for his 40 meter cw signal. Mike Duke, K5XU American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
RE: [AMRadio] Howdy Y'all
Hi Ronnie... You have definitely been missed. That Ranger will do the stuff in another few weeks as the bands quiet down more. Rick/K5IAR well Im not dead. Not on the air either, but not dead. With the sale of my precious Globe King 500 I have paid off the last of the doctors after my health issues in 2005. So its back to basics. I have a ranger and a R4C. Thats all thats left of the AM gear.! But I plan on getting on the air with peanut power during the upcoming Christmas Holidays when I have some time off from work. recently built a little 6AG7/6L6 40M cw rig and have been having some fun with it. It still have some chirp issues but I'll get them squared when I have a full day to work on it. anywho, just wanted to say howdy to everyone and hope to work you again real soon. Ronnie - W5SUM __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Hallicrafters SX110
And I had good luck with changing the front end on my SX99 to the S9er using a 6BQ7. Really hopped up the front end. Healthfully yours, Don W4BWS - Original Message - From: jeremy-ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Hallicrafters SX110 The only place the smaller tubes are better is in the front end. At IF, and audio there is no difference. Carl KM1H - Original Message - From: Lawrence Steeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:47 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Hallicrafters SX110 I have a question--why would Hallicrafters use tubes from the 40's in a receiver made in the early 60's?? This seems kinda strange that they would use octal tubes in this unit when the 7 and 9 pin tubes were much better.--- Weren't they?--- Larry Steeno K9LWI __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Howdy Y'all
Hi Ronnie, Glad you are still around and doing well. You have been missed along with others. Will listen for you. Some of us are on 3.705 in the afternoons. Jim/W5JO well Im not dead. Not on the air either, but not dead. With the sale of my precious Globe King 500 I have paid off the last of the doctors after my health issues in 2005. So its back to basics. I have a ranger and a R4C. Thats all thats left of the AM gear.! But I plan on getting on the air with peanut power during the upcoming Christmas Holidays when I have some time off from work. anywho, just wanted to say howdy to everyone and hope to work you again real soon. Ronnie - W5SUM __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] 572B's going Legacy?
Hi all, I ran into the following info from another source (yahoo ham_amplifiers). It looks like the Chinese 572B manufacturing may have already ended. That leaves the Svetlana version. see info below. 73, Jim JKO pentalab wrote: Gents.. this from AMPS. It appears that Chinese 572-B's are no longer going to be made... and that the Svetlana 572-B is a dud for RF.. I read somewhere that the Svetlanan version is for audio use only.. and the anode is smaller inside the glass envelope... and also doesn't hi-pot test as high. Jim Yep, dead right. I buy them in direct from China for resale in Australia and can attest to their excellent quality. There is one downside however. The Shuguang factory which makes the tubes has decided to DISCONTINUE the 572B. Stocks have all but dried up and there won't be any more. As I write this, the last 22 tubes that I could source in China, are on their way to me There is obviously no money in glass rf tubes. The upsurge in tube hifi has seen to that. 73, Alek VK6APK At 01:49 AM 23/11/2007, jeremy-ca wrote: All Chinese tubes are the same now. All RF Parts does is charge you more for the honor of having their name on them. Ive bought directly from Hong Kong as well as the Pentas, no problems in Clippertons or on 6M. Carl KM1H __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Howdy Y'all
Hello Ronnie: Glad to see you are back with us. look for you on the air 73 Tony Anthony W. DePrato WA4JQS QCWA # 23602 10X # 3621 A1-OP FISTS # 10573 VBA # 55 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 __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] 813's Price Correction
Bob, are they NOS or used? John w4wsz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 813's $20.00 each Buy 6 for $120.00 and shipping is free. 73, Bob,W4WSZ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Hallicrafters SX110
That S9er was a government issue update for some of the older Super Pros. Ive got one in a box someplace around here; want to try it in the SX-28 once I finish the overhaul. The 6BZ7, 6DJ8 and 6922 are even lower noise. I used a 717A in the HQ-129x and it really woke up 20 15M; havent heard any 10M openings. Carl KM1H - Original Message - From: Donald Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 7:41 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Hallicrafters SX110 And I had good luck with changing the front end on my SX99 to the S9er using a 6BQ7. Really hopped up the front end. Healthfully yours, Don W4BWS - Original Message - From: jeremy-ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Hallicrafters SX110 The only place the smaller tubes are better is in the front end. At IF, and audio there is no difference. Carl KM1H - Original Message - From: Lawrence Steeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:47 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Hallicrafters SX110 I have a question--why would Hallicrafters use tubes from the 40's in a receiver made in the early 60's?? This seems kinda strange that they would use octal tubes in this unit when the 7 and 9 pin tubes were much better.--- Weren't they?--- Larry Steeno K9LWI __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] 572B's going Legacy?
I wouldnt bet on it. Maybe one supplier will bow out but glass tubes is still a big business and no self respecting Chinaman will pass up the chance to get an American dollar. Carl KM1H - Original Message - From: Jim Candela [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 8:27 PM Subject: [AMRadio] 572B's going Legacy? Hi all, I ran into the following info from another source (yahoo ham_amplifiers). It looks like the Chinese 572B manufacturing may have already ended. That leaves the Svetlana version. see info below. 73, Jim JKO pentalab wrote: Gents.. this from AMPS. It appears that Chinese 572-B's are no longer going to be made... and that the Svetlana 572-B is a dud for RF.. I read somewhere that the Svetlanan version is for audio use only.. and the anode is smaller inside the glass envelope... and also doesn't hi-pot test as high. Jim Yep, dead right. I buy them in direct from China for resale in Australia and can attest to their excellent quality. There is one downside however. The Shuguang factory which makes the tubes has decided to DISCONTINUE the 572B. Stocks have all but dried up and there won't be any more. As I write this, the last 22 tubes that I could source in China, are on their way to me There is obviously no money in glass rf tubes. The upsurge in tube hifi has seen to that. 73, Alek VK6APK At 01:49 AM 23/11/2007, jeremy-ca wrote: All Chinese tubes are the same now. All RF Parts does is charge you more for the honor of having their name on them. Ive bought directly from Hong Kong as well as the Pentas, no problems in Clippertons or on 6M. Carl KM1H __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
RE: [AMRadio] Howdy Y'all
Great to heaqr from you Ronnie...Check in to the net on Sat AM...Lots of Rangers barefoot there..Good to hear from you... Bob W1PE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] n.qth.net] On Behalf Of ronnie.hull Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:45 PM To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service Subject: [AMRadio] Howdy Y'all well Im not dead. Not on the air either, but not dead. With the sale of my precious Globe King 500 I have paid off the last of the doctors after my health issues in 2005. So its back to basics. I have a ranger and a R4C. Thats all thats left of the AM gear.! But I plan on getting on the air with peanut power during the upcoming Christmas Holidays when I have some time off from work. recently built a little 6AG7/6L6 40M cw rig and have been having some fun with it. It still have some chirp issues but I'll get them squared when I have a full day to work on it. anywho, just wanted to say howdy to everyone and hope to work you again real soon. Ronnie - W5SUM __ __ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.ht ml List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman /listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.h tml Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] t with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Wanna REAL good laugh?
Thomas Adams wrote: Just check THIS out!!! http://cgi.ebay.com/PERFECT-NOS-NIB-MATCHING-PAIR-OF-6146B-8298A-8298-TUBES_W0QQitemZ200178274745QQihZ010QQcategoryZ48710QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Worse than that.. the starting price was $199.99 and someone actually bid $200.oo (probably a bid-buddy. If the sale goes, he'll re-list the tubes, give his buddy some positive feed-back, get some and try to sucker someone else into buying a pair of $15 tubes, for $200.oo+) -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Wanna REAL good laugh?
Thomas Adams wrote: PERFECT NOS NIB MATCHING PAIR OF 6146B/8298A 8298 TUBES (revised http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemRevisionDetailsitem=200178274745) See item description http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=200178274745 Reserve met. Buy It Now price is no longer available since bidding has started. Current bid:US $200.00 -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
RE: [AMRadio] Wanna REAL good laugh?
Nice sales pitch, but he can't spell any better than I can! HI Rick/K5IAR Just check THIS out!!! http://cgi.ebay.com/PERFECT-NOS-NIB-MATCHING-PAIR-OF-6146B-8298A-8298-TUBES_ W0QQitemZ200178274745QQihZ010QQcategoryZ48710QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZVi ewItem Mr. T., W9LBB __ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Wanna REAL good laugh?
GOOD GAWD!!! Somebody actually BID on them??? He had up a BUY IT NOW of $400.00!!! P. T. Barnum had it right after all! Mr. T. At 09:13 PM 11/26/2007, you wrote: Thomas Adams wrote: PERFECT NOS NIB MATCHING PAIR OF 6146B/8298A 8298 TUBES (revised http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemRevisionDetailsitem=200178274745) See item description http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=200178274745 Reserve met. Buy It Now price is no longer available since bidding has started. Current bid:US $200.00 -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] Just a thought for laughter and memory
I would think that most of us ain't no more spring chicken (rosters) anymore, so I though I would ask this in light of some of the serious exchanges that I've read/deleted over the AM band plan ala IRAU/ARRL recently. Question: What was your favorite April QST April Fool's article, or one that could have qualified? I remember from years past The Vertical Beer Can Special and also the ham who wrote the article on the compact antenna mounted atop the roof of his high rise New York apartment building with the radiating element being a red light bulb with comments on all those he contacted on the bands using the antenna aks dummy load. Of personal note, I remember years ago when we were having a big family/friend cookout in my backyard with all the young family/children energies going on, I tried to assemble a beer can vertical or at least get all the element parts collected. You can imagine the rest of the story with all the other young non-ham fathers attempting to assist me in advice and physical efforts. Did we succeed ? Well I'll say this. We did get the antenna high enough to resonate on 6 meters then we just kind of lost interest in the vertical extension element assembly for some reason as each can was becoming more difficult to 'solder' to the next, :-) then all of us going back to play with the kids and eat more hamburgers and watermelon even though we had plenty of aluminum raw materials left over to probably make a 160 meter vertical. Remember those times? Have happy thoughts this coming month with you families as they are (the years) each numbered. Merry Christmas Robert W4RL Remember, our hobby is not our life, it's just a hobby to help us extend our life. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Wanna REAL good laugh?
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Re: [AMRadio] Just a thought for laughter and memory
Robert Lawson wrote: I would think that most of us ain't no more spring chicken (rosters) anymore, so I though I would ask this in light of some of the serious exchanges that I've read/deleted over the AM band plan ala IRAU/ARRL recently. Question: What was your favorite April QST April Fool's article, or one that could have qualified? Oh, I liked the one about the substance that could be injected into your coax, that would produce different colors emitting from the antenna, depending on what frequency you were on! :-) What a great way to determine your antenna radiation pattern! ;-) -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Just a thought for laughter and memory
Question: What was your favorite April QST April Fool's article, or one that could have qualified? I think my all time favorite (and the one that destroyed the most equipment) was the one about the dummy load made of RG8/U coax. It was a section about a foot long with PL-259s on each end. On the far end was a Tee connector, with a 12 loop of coax between the open ends of the Tee. The LETTERS column was hilarious the next few issues... like the guy who actually made one (he was far from alone!), and hooked it to his shiny new Hallicrafters SR-2000 Hurricane and put his final amp tubes into orbit around the moon!!! Second prize went to the Electron Accelerator antenna. The graphics showed a dipole, with electrons wandering around randomly in a lotta space inside of the wire near the center of the antenna. Maybe an eighth wavelength down the antenna, the wire size was suddenly REDUCED, forcing the electrons into nice, orderly, tightly packed streams! Honorable mention goes to the guy who published the NASA Cycles to Hertz Conversion Nomograph!!! Mr. T., W9LBB __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
[AMRadio] ARRL Great Lakes Director on IARU Bandplan
Here are some comments from the Great Lakes Division Director, Jim Weaver K8JE, regarding the IARU band plan proposal. - - - - - - - - - +++ AM Privileges -- Under Attack? +++ Definitely not! A few members contacted me with questions about the possible impact on US hams of a bandplan adopted by Region 2 of the International Amateur Radio Union -- IARU. The answer to the question is that the Region 2 bandplan has no impact on US hams. For background, the IARU is the International organization of national Amateur Radio societies from around the world. These societies include the Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC), the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) and the ARRL. Region 2 of the IARU covers the Western hemisphere. IARU cannot issue legally-binding rules or regulations. There are three regions in the IARU. Each of the regions has a voluntary bandplan. The Region 1 and Region 3 bandplans preceded the Region 2 plan. IARU Region 2 held a conference a few weeks ago. Among other actions, it adopted its new recommended bandplan during this conference. It is critical to understand that this recommended bandplan has absolutely no relevance to countries such as Canada and the US which have federal agencies (e.g. the FCC) that define and regulate Amateur Radio bands. In addition, IARU bandplans are merely recommendations to amateurs in countries that do not have such government agencies. There is no force of law behind the voluntary bandplans. The concern of some amateurs seems to be that the FCC will adopt the Region 2 bandplan; thereby reducing the US's frequency allocation for AM. One writer from the GLD said the FCC has previously adopted a number of practices recommended by the IARU. To this moment, he has not responded to my request to identify just which IARU recommended actions were picked up and adopted by the Commission. Similarly, a writer from outside the GLD has accused IARU President Larry Price, W4RA of a written attempt to manipulate International Treaty to reduce AM privileges. To date, he too, has not responded to my request for a reference to the source of his accusation. Finally, CQ Magazine has jumped into the fray by accusing ARRL of using the recent IARU Conference to further regulation by bandwidth. I enjoy reading CQ; however, as much as I enjoy reading it I equally strongly assure you that its editor has gotten caught-up in bad journalism. The basis for the editorial appears merely to be ARRL's publicly-acknowledged support of regulation by bandwidth and the fact that the Region 2 bandplan specified bandwidths. This logic is similar to claiming 1 plus 1 = 6. The fact is that ARRL did not participate in developing this bandplan. We had no representation on the bandplan committee. Could it be that in reality, the plan was developed in its present form because the delegates who drafted it believe this is the way it should be and that there was no dastardly conspiracy after all? Or is it too hard to believe in this day of ever-present conspiracy theories is it too much to expect that some things are done in a fully responsible manner? The bottom line to this small flurry of concern by some AM colleagues is that the Region 2 bandplan represents nothing to worry about. The IARU has no impact on US FCC regulations . . . the FCC has no apparent intent to act against AM in the foreseeable future . . . the ARRL has no thought of recommending the FCC take action against AM . . . and I will vote against any effort to get ARRL to recommend action against AM. My recommendation to AM operators is to relax and enjoy your favorite form of Amateur Radio . . . for a long time. - - - - - - - - - Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Subscribe to the ARRL ?
I keep wondering if any of these individuals who keep criticizing the ARRL actually are members. Haven't you been reading my messages at all? That's one of my main points in all this bruhaha: As a long-time member I expected I would have at least a small voice in the development of any bandplan changes. But I clearly do not... My respectful and gently-expressed messages to my Director and League officers regarding the IARU Region 2 bandplan have been ignored, insulted, attacked, scorned, belittled, and pooh-poohed. Steve WD8DAS Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] IARU - VP ARRL contact by WD5BZO
But this entire thread (or really the entire mentality) of somebody's going to steal my little red shovel and it's MINE is quite over the top. I encourage you to read my past postings on this matter. I have consistently made the point that a restrictive and limiting bandplan that does not match current practices on the bands - like the one that will go into effect in a month or so - is simply not a good idea. Not because it impacts any of my little-red-shovels, AM, or otherwise, but rather because it is not well-conceived and will likely lead to stress between amateurs that is is simply not necessary. Besides, the problem it seeks to solve doesn't even exist except in the minds of a few folks who want to CONTROL things. Without meaningful definitions in the plan of bandwidth and how to measure it, there will be endless finger-pointing among SSB and digital operators that can never be sorted out. Without room in the plan for full-carrier DSB AM there will be hams who claim that AM operations are not following the bandplan. And since good amateur practice in the FCC rules is becoming linked to following a bandplan, then the AMers will be the bad-guys. The same for other modes that will not fit into the new bandplan. And finally it does seem like the ARRL is using the IARU Region 2 bandplan as a way to revisit the issue of regulation-by-bandwidth that they have long sought. Steve WD8DAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wd8das.net/ Radio is your best entertainment value. Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Just a thought for laughter and memory
You mean that the Beer Can Vertical was a joke? No wonder my friends and I never got the solder to take (we were in high school) Ken KC8QO --- Thomas Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: What was your favorite April QST April Fool's article, or one that could have qualified? I think my all time favorite (and the one that destroyed the most equipment) was the one about the dummy load made of RG8/U coax. It was a section about a foot long with PL-259s on each end. On the far end was a Tee connector, with a 12 loop of coax between the open ends of the Tee. The LETTERS column was hilarious the next few issues... like the guy who actually made one (he was far from alone!), and hooked it to his shiny new Hallicrafters SR-2000 Hurricane and put his final amp tubes into orbit around the moon!!! Second prize went to the Electron Accelerator antenna. The graphics showed a dipole, with electrons wandering around randomly in a lotta space inside of the wire near the center of the antenna. Maybe an eighth wavelength down the antenna, the wire size was suddenly REDUCED, forcing the electrons into nice, orderly, tightly packed streams! Honorable mention goes to the guy who published the NASA Cycles to Hertz Conversion Nomograph!!! Mr. T., W9LBB __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Just a thought for laughter and memory
Designer of the Beer Can Vertical, Pete Czerwinski, W2JTJ, published in QST, November 1955. Here's a similar article published in QST, April 1956: http://www.qsl.net/w3bmd/beercanantenna.htm Back then, cans were made of tin, so soldering was easier then cans made from aluminum types today, if you were so inclined to build one of these things. Pete, wa2cwa On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:17:54 -0600 Robert Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would think that most of us ain't no more spring chicken (rosters) anymore, so I though I would ask this in light of some of the serious exchanges that I've read/deleted over the AM band plan ala IRAU/ARRL recently. Question: What was your favorite April QST April Fool's article, or one that could have qualified? I remember from years past The Vertical Beer Can Special and also the ham who wrote the article on the compact antenna mounted atop the roof of his high rise New York apartment building with the radiating element being a red light bulb with comments on all those he contacted on the bands using the antenna aks dummy load. Robert W4RL __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Just a thought for laughter and memory
QST, November 1955, article: Budget 7-Mc Vertical Antenna Pete, wa2cwa On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:50:20 -0800 (PST) Ken Zuercher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You mean that the Beer Can Vertical was a joke? No wonder my friends and I never got the solder to take (we were in high school) Ken KC8QO __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
