Re: [AMRadio] RETRO 75 Build
I got the receiver portion of the transceiver built Friday night but as yet have not tested it out. Hoping to build up the transmitter portion Sunday. I was planning to build a case for it out of PC board material as I had done for my Ft Tuthill 80 kit. (That case came out looking great)! Unless I am dissapointed, I am going to first try using a TenTec case I ordered from TenTec direct. The size is so perfect for the RETRO 75 and the price is good too. TP-41 $6.71. (5 1/2 x 2 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). I also had a SW-30+ transceiver from Small Wonder without a case, so I ordered a slightly smaller case for it too on the same order. The shipping charges for both cabinets came to $7.85. If the TenTec case works out, it will save a lot of time from building one up myself. I prefer making my own as I can size the cabinet to fit the PC board. In this case, the size from TenTec was perfect and for $6.71, I could not build one that inexpensive. When I did the homebrew case for the Ft Tuthill rig I used some spray Krylon Fusion paint for plastic, wood, wicker and more. It really worked out well on the single sided PC material. (I painted the fiberglass side). I was worried about seeing the fiberglass pattern in the paint job. That problem did not occur and the paint job was one of the best I have ever done spraying a cabinet with canned spray paint. The Krylon Fusion paint really impressed me. I used a soft gray for the front, rear and bottom panels and a dark blue for the top and sides. I ordered a new hand held Cobra High Gear HG-M73 Dynamic CB mic for it with a 4 pin plug off of E-bay for $11.00 including shipping. (There are a zillion of these mics listed on that site. Just make sure you buy a dynamic model. Mine has no amp built into it). Lee, w0vt __ 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] Broadcast stuff
Yes, it's laughable, Bill - they had only two field engineers for the entire southeast U.S.A. back in the 1990s! Those two guys had to cover the entire spectrum from DC to daylight for all services - broadcast readio, TV, AM, FM, marine, amateur, CB, RC, business. What a joke. From: BILL GUYGER bguy...@sbcglobal.net There was talk last week on the broadcast trade websites that there is a move under way to appoint a staff engineer for each FCC commissioner. The facts are that there are very few engineering types left at the FCC. -~ø¤º°º¤ø~-ßrÿ in FLÕRÎÐÁ-~ø¤º°º¤ø~- __ 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
