Re: [AMRadio] Repair Work
May try K9STH http://k9sth.com/Page_3.html SD --- On Mon, 9/28/09, Bob Peters wrote: From: Bob Peters Subject: [AMRadio] Repair Work To: "'AM'" , "Boatanchors" Date: Monday, September 28, 2009, 7:41 AM Is there anyone in the Dallas Area that does Boat Anchor repair work??? Someone that can lift the gear??? I have a couple of items that I have no room or test gear to repair. Namely an SX101 and a Ranger. Would like to get an alignment on an HRO50 as well.Some extra money for someone that wants to make it.I cannot lift the heavy gear. Very Best 73's, Bob W1PE Mesquite,TX http://www.w1pe.com http://www.myhamshack.com/W1PE/ Blog __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [AMRadio] Extra Class
My mentors in ham radio were extra class licensees of the '50s! (W9ZMV and W9CSE) They were both graduates of my high school in the late '40s and early '50s! They had been members of our school's radio club! They taught us basic theory and FCC rules during my time in high school! Jim, W9ZMV was a broadcast engineer and Joe W9CSE was a teacher at DeVry Tech in Chicago! Our radio club moderator then was Father Ed Robinson, now W5QXS, a Dominican Priest with whom I still communicate most Saturday mornings on 20Meter SSB (sorry am guys)! The AM saving grace here is that our radio club then operated stations consisting of a BC610E and SX42 and our novice position used an ARC-5 transmitter on 80 meters with a BC-348 receiver! (:-) However, while I was still in 8th grade, my "elmer" ,W9JSF, Carl, a neighbor in Oak Park, Illinois (a colonel in the Salvation Army!), encouraged me to go for my general as he was mailing the request for the novice license exam materials in early 1957! I continued CW practice and went for the general at 826 US Courthouse Building, Chicago, Illinois in March of 1957! I passed the exam and received my general ticket in May of '57 ... quite an oddball at the time... a guy with a general class license and never a novice! In 1963, I took the commercial ticket exams on Thursday and the extra class exam on Friday, again at 826 US Courthouse Building, Chicago, Illinois! I received my First Class Radiotelephone and Amateur Extra Class tickets then! BTW, in 1963, we still had to draw and analyze schematics ... for both tests My extra class ticket effort was a matter of pride ... one of those things I had to do to show my elmer and mentors that their efforts on my behalf were appreciated! Frank, W9FM (Proud owner of a BC610F and R390A and other stuff!!) D. Chester wrote: > The big difference between Extra class of to-day and the one of the 50's is > that back then it really was something "extra". It afforded no additional > operating privileges beyond the General, so the only reward was pride of > accomplishment and a nice certificate to hang on the wall. The callbook > listings didn't even show licence class IIRC. > > To-day's Extra is mandatory to enjoy full amateur privileges. Especially > since Advanced Class was discontinued, unless you take the Extra class exam, > your operating privileges are substantially restricted. The reward for > passing the Extra is something completely different now, so we shouldn't > expect the test to be close to the same thing it was back then. > > The name is somewhat deceiving; it ought to be re-named from "Extra", to > something like "Full Licence", with the General re-named something like > "Restricted Licence", and the Technician should be renamed "Communicator > Class". > > And I don't understand why some people get their knickers in a twist > whenever the topic of to-day's ham radio exams and privileges vs what old > timers remember theirs were like when they first got on the air. > > Don k4kyv > > __ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net > To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[AMRadio] AM 75- 80 meters
Hello all, I have been reading the comments about operating and something jumped out at me. The concept of a calling frequency is to make initial contact and qsy to another frequency to continue the qso. What a concept. Thanks, Paul WA3GFZ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[AMRadio] Repair Work
Is there anyone in the Dallas Area that does Boat Anchor repair work??? Someone that can lift the gear??? I have a couple of items that I have no room or test gear to repair. Namely an SX101 and a Ranger. Would like to get an alignment on an HRO50 as well.Some extra money for someone that wants to make it.I cannot lift the heavy gear. Very Best 73's, Bob W1PE Mesquite,TX http://www.w1pe.com http://www.myhamshack.com/W1PE/ Blog __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [AMRadio] Extra Class License
I am so glad that a panel of exam experts is on the list. I struggled to understand enough of the electronics to pass the general exam. The math and theory are latin to me. I can teach the technician exam, and have on occasion. Extra however is a whole different world to me. Who would like to be my elmer on this? Thanks. Todd. -Original Message- From: Bernie Doran Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 4:10 PM To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Extra Class License Hi Tom: I respectful have to disagree with you. the extra that I passed was far simpler that the general examination that I took in 1954. for that test one had to correctly draw circuits, my test required a Hartley oscillator and a neutralized push pull triode amplifier and I believe a few others. I took a first phone the same year and found it to be about the same as the extra of those days. I never took the twenty WPM as the best I could copy was about 22 and I figuired that was not enough of a buffer, plus the bands were the same for extra and general at that time.I would like to hear comments from others that took the general/extra back in the 50s and see what they thought, I guess the best thing would be track down an old license manual. 73 Bernie - Original Message - From: "Thomas F. Giella NZ4O" To: "AM ra...@qth.net" Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 2:50 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Extra Class License > Bernie Said: > .And yes, I know this has been brought up before, and yes I know there > are generals, not > an excuse for most, a few hours with the license manual and you are an > extra. I talked with a 13 year girl a while back that was an extra!!. > > NZ4O Says: > It really get's old hearing the Extra Class license denigrated on this > email > list. I have a BS in Meteorology, an MS in Space Plasma Physics and an > above > average IQ but could not memorize all of the answers to all of the > questions > in the current Extra Class license question pool. I had to study and > understand the material over a period of a few months to pass the test on > the first try. > > 99.9% of the people that denigrate the current Extra Class question pool > as > being so easy that the answers to the questions can be memorized in short > order, CAN NOT ACCOMPLISH THAT FEAT. Since the Morse code requirement was > reduced to 5 wpm and then ultimately to zilch (which I did not agree with) > the [The entire original message is not included] __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
