[AMRadio] FS: Glen Martin 50' aluminum tower with "Hazer"

[Frank J. Mercurio]

Winter is coming so naturally it's time to think antenna systems for use 
with all those boat anchors and state of the art radios!
I have a Glen Martin Engineering 50', 18" face aluminum tower with 
"Hazer" (#H-6) system for raising and lowering antenna and rotor and 
tilt base. This is a partial Glen Martin model M-1850A package 
(currently worth $2341.95). Buyer would add 210' Kevlar guy cable, 
turnbuckles(3ea #TB-3806), guy anchors(3ea #ES-40) and tower concrete 
footing(CHB-18). These items are currently available through Glen Martin 
(www.glenmartin.com). For pickup only in Schaumburg, IL and asking $600.00.

847-524-2546 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[AMRadio] FS: Glen Martin 50' aluminum tower with "Hazer"

[Frank J. Mercurio]

I have a Glen Martin Engineering 50', 18" face aluminum tower with
"Hazer" (#H-6) system for raising and lowering your antenna and rotor. 
Included is the tilt base. This is a partial Glen Martin model M-1850A 
package (currently worth $2341.95).


Buyer would supplies 210' Kevlar guy cable, turnbuckles(3ea #TB-3806), 
guy anchors(3ea #ES-40) and tower concrete footing(CHB-18). These items 
are currently available through Glen Martin (www.glenmartin.com). For 
pickup only in Schaumburg, IL and asking $599.00.

847-524-2546 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[AMRadio] FS: Glen Martin 50' aluminum tower with "Hazer"

[Frank J. Mercurio]

I have a Glen Martin Engineering 50', 18" face aluminum tower with
"Hazer" (#H-6) system for raising and lowering your antenna and rotor.
Included is the tilt base. This is a partial Glen Martin model M-1850A
package (currently worth $2341.95).

Buyer would supplies 210' Kevlar guy cable, turnbuckles(3ea #TB-3806),
guy anchors(3ea #ES-40) and tower concrete footing(CHB-18). These items
are currently available through Glen Martin (www.glenmartin.com). For
pickup only in Schaumburg, IL and asking $599.00.
847-524-2546 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[AMRadio] FS: Glen Martin 50' aluminum tower with "Hazer"(PRICE REDUCED)

[Frank J. Mercurio]

I have for sale a Glen Martin Engineering 50', 18" face aluminum tower 
with the famous "Hazer" (#H-6) system for raising and lowering your 
antenna and rotor. Also included is the tilt base. This is part of the 
Glen Martin model M-1850A package, which currently sells for $2341.95.


Buyer supplies 210' Kevlar guy cable, turnbuckles(3ea #TB-3806),
guy anchors(3ea #ES-40) and tower concrete footing (CHB-18)to complete 
the package.


All items are currently available through Glen Martin Engineering 
(www.glenmartin.com).


Price:  $550.00

For pickup only:
Schaumburg, IL
Phone:  847-524-2546
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[AMRadio] FS: Glen Martin 50' aluminum tower with "Hazer"(PRICE REDUCED)

[Frank J. Mercurio]

I have for sale a Glen Martin Engineering 50', 18" face aluminum tower
with the famous "Hazer" (#H-6) system for raising and lowering your
antenna and rotor. Also included is the tilt base. This is part of the
Glen Martin model M-1850A package, which currently sells for $2341.95.

Buyer supplies 210' Kevlar guy cable, turnbuckles(3ea #TB-3806),
guy anchors(3ea #ES-40) and tower concrete footing (CHB-18)to complete
the package.

All items are currently available through Glen Martin Engineering
(www.glenmartin.com).

Price:  $550.00

For pickup only:
Schaumburg, IL
Phone:  847-524-2546
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [AMRadio] Receivers

[Frank J. Mercurio]

Jack,

your comment about the Zenith reminded me of the first receiver I used 
as a newly licensed ham in 1957.  It was an RCA model 8K console that I 
pulled the chassis out of and set on the desk. I fabricated a Masonite 
front panel and added a bfo and a Heath QF-1 q multiplier!  Next, in 
1958 or so I "graduated" to a Heath AR-2! After that, I used a home 
brewed rx!


Presently, we have the following:  R390A, 75A4, 51J4, Racal RA6790/GM, 
Sylvania R1414/URR, BC348, and an HRO-500!


That old RCA was fun to work with ... finding a choke to sub for the 
speaker voice coil,  replacing that wet electrolytic can that sprayed 
its guts out one time in the middle of a qso ... ah! the memories!


73, Frank W9FM (on AM)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 It might be interesting, however, to note that my first "ham" receiver was an old Zenith 7S363 console that I pulled the chassis out of and set on the operating table.  I utilized a another little ACDC radio along side the Zenith for BFO to copy CW by heterodyning the local oscillator in the Zenith IF.  Crude, yes...but it worked and I had a lot of 
fun with it as a novice.  "Modern" receivers include a couple of ICOM transceivers, but they just don't have the classic sound and ambience of the boatanchor stuff.


73,  Jack, W9GT
-- Original message -- 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

  
what sort of receivers are in use in the AM community? 
  



  

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Re: [AMRadio] formula values

[Frank J. Mercurio]

Carl,

I don't share the Navy training background (I was an Army grunt) but I 
attended (Bishop) Fenwick HS in Oak Park, IL and was "chief operator" of 
the radio club from '57 till '61.  A Dominican priest, Father Ed 
Robinson was the trustee of the club, W9ANF, and also a physics 
teacher!  He's still an active ham (W5QXS) and still maintains a weekly 
schedule on 20 meter SSB(sorry) with some of us former students and his 
ham brothers, K0APW and W6LEJ!


The radio club proudly used a BC-610 then so hopefully I have maintained 
some AM continuity in this post  .. (:-)


Frank, W9FM

-ca wrote:

Yep, thats were I was parts of 60-61; right thru the winter I might add.

I learned that color code ditty from a Christian Brother at Bishop 
Loughlin HS in Brooklyn, NY. He was the Physics instructor and ham 
station trustee and gave me the Novice test.


Carl
KM1H


- Original Message - From: "kenw2dtc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" 


Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] formula values


If you attended USN ET school in Great Lakes Illinois you were also 
given this memory jogger about resistor color codes and resistor 
tolerances: bad boys rape our young girls but violet gives willingly, 
get some now. Get some now as in Gold, Silver and No color.

73,
Ken W2DTC




ELI the ICE man was taught in the early weeks of USN ET School.
Whoever created the course material were geniuses as they could take 
a backwoods farmers son and make a first rate ET out of him.






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[AMRadio] Harris AM-80 AM modulation monitor manual needed

[Frank J. Mercurio]

Does anyone out there have a copy of the Harris AM modulation monitor 
available for copy or download?  I have a AM-80 and it is need of repair!


Thanks for the bandwidth,

Frank, W9FM
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[AMRadio] Harris AM-80 AM modulation monitor manual needed

[Frank J. Mercurio]

Does anyone out there have a copy of the Harris AM modulation monitor 
manual available for copy or download?  I have a AM-80 and it is need of 
repair!


Thanks for the bandwidth,

Frank, W9FM

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Re: [AMRadio] Re: 60 Minutes

[Frank J. Mercurio]

Don,

you can watch the 60 minutes piece and a follow up piece from the CBS 
morning show at:


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/10/60minutes/main4006951.shtml

*"(CBS) */This segment was originally broadcast on April 13, 2008. It 
was updated on July 16, 2008."/


You have to endure a short commercial preceding each story!

Frank W9FM

D. Chester wrote:
Damn.  I forgot to watch it.  So out of the habit of watching the boob 
tube that I didn't think of it until I read the message.


I hope they run the video on their web site soon.

Don k4kyv


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Re: [AMRadio] ON NBC TONIGHT - TOWER DOGS!

[Frank J. Mercurio]

I agree. After about the first 15 minutes of the show last night, I 
mentioned to my xyl that this is one of those reality shows we avoid 
like the plague.  I kept watching to see if they would stop the 
repetition ... I've hired tower crews in my pre-retired life and it is 
true that they are a poorly paid hard working lot!


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, $14 is what they said. I thought the show was an hour of the same 
thing over and over. They could have covered it in 15 minutes.


Tom K3TVC


Quoting kenw2dtc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



"purposed installation of more then 18,000 towers
nationwide over the next 5 years"

Did I hear correctly that these tower dogs get only $14 per hour?  It
seems like it should easily be 2 or 3 times that !

73,
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[AMRadio] Test

[Frank J. Mercurio]

Test
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Re: [AMRadio] Fwd: CRL PMC-300A Manual

[Frank J. Mercurio]

Mark,

A  pdf file of the manual for the PMC-300A can be downloaded from:  
http://www.orban.com/


Frank, W9FM

WA5AM wrote:

Forwarding this for Mark.

-- Forwarded message --
From: *Mark K3MSB* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:02 PM
Subject: CRL PMC-300A Manual
To: List AMradio <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >


Anybody have one?

73 Mark K3MSB

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Re: [AMRadio] Fwd: CRL PMC-300A Manual

[Frank J. Mercurio]

I am not a computer type ... I was able to download the file ... I can 
email it to you off line!


Frank, W9FM

Mark K3MSB wrote:

Hmmm.   I can see the name of the manual, etc,  but get an error 550
indicating a redirection error.

Do I need to use FTP software for this?

mark K3MSB

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Frank J. Mercurio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  

Mark,

A  pdf file of the manual for the PMC-300A can be downloaded from:
 http://www.orban.com/

Frank, W9FM

WA5AM wrote:


Forwarding this for Mark.

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From: *Mark K3MSB* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:02 PM
Subject: CRL PMC-300A Manual
To: List AMradio <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>


Anybody have one?

73 Mark K3MSB
  



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Re: [AMRadio] AM Transmitter "quality"

[Frank J. Mercurio]

"We now fully accept glitchy, noisy and  
totally unreliable service at an absurd price as the norm .. :-)"

Amen Grant! 

Cellular handsets with no side tone, and sometimes severe latency issues make 
for inefficient and unsatisfactory telephony!

Frank/W9FM



Grant Youngman wrote:
> On Sep 15, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Charles Ring wrote:
>   
>> While modern telephones can produce better audio (no carbon mics),
>> modern phone exchanges don't. Th e old exchanges passed whatever audio
>> was fed into them at least for local calls, but digital switching  
>> has a
>> brick wall cutoff. I
>> 
>
> It depends on whether your exchange is still using a TDM switch or  
> softswitch, and whether you're on a standard landline or VoIP  
> service.  Big difference.
>
> Even TDM switches now go up past 3Khz -- the standard is in the 3.3Khz  
> range, still far from adequate.  VoIP service is far superior with  
> some services going up to the 7Khz range -- you can actually tell the  
> caller is Granny, which isn't always the case on TDM infrastructure.   
> On the landline here, my wife's sisters all sound the same -- I can't  
> tell who's calling.  If they call on the VoIP line, that isn't the  
> case.  There is discussion about improving cellular bandwidth, too,  
> but with the typical lousy handset, it may not make a lot of  
> difference.  Bad just sounds bad, not to mention the fact that all  
> cellular has really done is kill our "old fashioned" expectations of  
> what phone service should be.  We now fully accept glitchy, noisy and  
> totally unreliable service at an absurd price as the norm .. :-)
>
> Grant/NQ5T
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Re: [AMRadio] Extra Class

[Frank J. Mercurio]

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 
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[AMRadio] T-368 connector needed

[Frank J. Mercurio]

Happy New Year to all!

I am looking for the cabinet mount remote control connector "J12" (9 pin
female) and its mating male connector for my T-368!  Any help,  even
just the connector part number ID,  would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Frank, W9FM
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