Re: [AMRadio] need advise
AB5MM wrote: Hello, I really need some advise. After the initial “sticker shock” wore off, I may have found a Viking II with 122 vfo. It seems to be a factory wired model; the appearance is about a 4 out of 10; no ‘apparent’ modifications; will load to approximately 80 watts cw on lower bands, much less on 20, nothing on 15 or 10; couldn't test modulation (no mic no receiver) and the bottom rubber feet are missing. What is a reasonable price range for something like this? about a hunnert bucks, I'd say. *possibly* $125, since it has the VFO. -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] ADMIN NOTICE (receiving and replying to messages)
D. Chester wrote: That has been the situation with other lists that I have been on, where I would usually get duplicate messages when people responded to something I posted. Those other lists long ago changed the settings to correct that problem. Again, I cannot fully emphasise how strongly I recommend switching to the digest mode to reduce clutter in your in-box. With Thunderbird email client, (and it's possible in M$'s Outlook, [and Express]) I simply create a folder under my main in-box folder, name it something like AMRadio, then go to an AMRadio Message, click Message tab at the top, then -- Create Filter from Message and then tell the filter to take any messages with [AMRadio] in the subject line, and move them to the newly created folder. AM Radio stuff says in the AM Radio folder, T-368/BC-610 stuff stays in it's own folder, and individuals that I receive lots of mail from have their own folders. The program will let you know how many unread messages there are in each folder. You could even initiate the 'thread' mode of reading messages in that folder, so that if there's a subject you don't want to read, you can just 'ignore' all messages in the thread of the same subject line. Easier to prioritize that way. There must be hundreds of solutions that one could utilize. But, the bottom line is, PC stands for Personal Choice. How you (you in the 'collective' sense - talking about all ya'll) run -your- system, is -your- prerogative. *I* will run -mine- as *I* see fit. -- 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 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 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] {ADMIN NOTICE TO SELLERS AND BUYERS ON THIS LIST}
Rick wrote: Brian, Personally, I think you're doing a hell of a good job. To have organization and any degree of sanity you must have rules and they must be followed. You can't please everyone and I think you have found a happy median that is not too difficult to follow. Of course, there will always be the occasional slip, I've sure made my share. I say, keep up the good work and we should all try a little harder to accommodate the rules of the reflector. If I can interject my 2 millicents in here... Those rules that apply to this reflector, show as links in every message. Unfortunately, far too often, those said message footers are reproduced [multiple times] in non-trimmed and complete message quoting replies. Links to those rules are great, but I get the feeling that a lot of people don't click on them, because 'they' (mostly readers, and not posters) because they would rather get to the 'meat' they came to the site for. With that in mind, posting said rules here, -on-the-list-, probably once a month, would go a long way to dispelling any questions and/or translations of said rules. -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR (home again) __ 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 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] 7160
Mike Duke, K5XU wrote: Jeff, The Tom that I'm thinking of was in Langtree, TX. Sounds right. The A A 5 what ever that I was thinking of was in Arkansas. I met him at the Clairmore, OK hamfest back in about 2001 or 2002. I've got a picture of he and I someone on this network of computers but with nearly a terra byte of total storage space on the lan it's hard to locate things. I need to get better organized :-) He talked with W5MEU a lot, and with Vern, Wb0SUJ, on 1985. That's a project I want to try, but can't get too excited about due to the lack of real estate. I've always wanted to have a decent station setup here for one sixty. I know that John talked regularly with Fred, W5JKD (Jack, King and a Deuce) up in Priddy, Texas. Jerry, N5CBW is very near where Fred's QTH was, and reported a couple of days ago that there's now not even any reference of a building that was on that property. JKD Fred, CBW Jerry and Ozona Bob, W5PYT were related (cousins, I believe) to each other. Some of the last AM contacts made by Alton, W5FAP, were also on 7160. W5 Fried Apple Pie. Ol' Alton has only been gone now for about a year. He was 99 years and 6, or 8 months, when he passed. Along in about 1999 or 2000, Jeff/N5ECP, John/WA5BXO, Roy/W5MRY, Otis/K5SWK, Geoff/KA5THB, Yogie/KC5MIP, Alton/W5FAP, Bill/N5XPZ and a couple of others all gathered up in San Antonio and went to visit John/W5MEU after he was relegated to an 'assisted living' house on the North side of San Antonio. At that time, I believe it was John/BXO that asked Alton how old he was, then. Alton said I'm Ninety Two years Young! and with out grabbing the arms of the chair, stood straight up, and walked down the hallway as if he was in his mid 30's. Alton kept himself in pretty good shape, physically. I also remember, back in the 'glory days' of 7.160, when brother Noel/W5FAO was on the air in Waco, Mil/K5LKM was in Columbus and Ken Smith, W5FLV was on the air in Bellaire, TX. Back then, Bellaire was South and East of Houston, between downtown Houston and Sugarland. Now, Bellaire (and Sugarland, for that matter) are all incorporated into the conglomeration that has become the 'Greater Metro Houston area' which encompasses from Conroe to La Port, and from Brookshire to nearly Winnie, TX. Guaranteed, it's a mess! Good memories, Mike! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. -- 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 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 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] 40M AM?
Bob Macklin wrote: I did but there are other people that can't memorize 700 questions! You wouldn't have survived the 50's, when you had to actually draw a schematic, answer questions with a short essay and rely on actual knowledge in comparison to a multiple guess question type of test, with a published question and answer pool. There's simply no reason, or excuse why someone can't upgrade from General, these days. The ARRRghL has petitioned the FCC to create the current 'dumbed-down' mind-set of the so-called 'ham' of today. -- 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 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 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] 40M AM?
Bob Macklin wrote: I passed the General test in 1957. I passed the 2nd Class Phone in 1958. On Saturday I took the Extra exam and passed it with knowledge gained in over 40 years experience as an EE, I did not know the Satellite questions and a couple antenna chart questions so I did not answer them. I just looked through the question pool twice last week and I figured I knew the answers to at least 75% of the questions. Congratulations, Bob! Feels good to get that Extra class license under your belt, doesn't it Proud on ya, man! -- 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 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 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] 40M AM?
Bob Macklin wrote: I was surprised at how well it could copy CW when the CW was obviously generated by another computer. It had a 99% correctness. This does not happen when the CW is sent by hand. If the sender is really good it might copy 75% but most of the time it is less than 50%. My observation yesterday was that a significant amount of the contesting was being done by computers. I disagree that it 'had to be done by computer'. Back in the mid 80's, as a 'Johnny Novice' (literally, still a novice) running 15wpm code on a Speed-X bug. That was the best Bug I've ever operated. Beats the Vibroplex, hands down. I worked, on a regular basis, a WD5J... something or another, out in East Texas always on 40m, somewhere between 7.110 and 7.125 and he was using a new (at the time) Commodore 64 with a CW program on it. He sent me a print out of the text I was sending with my bug. Solid Copy for 5 whole minutes, at an average for 15wpm. Computer programs are -much- more refined these days. I've always received compliments on my 'fist'. Have been accused more than twice of running some sort of code-generating device (computer, keyboard, whatever) while all the time I was using a bug. -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR __ 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 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] 40M AM?
Phil LaMarche wrote: AND some one who's license is 59 years and the brain of a 69 year old that doesn't work like it did, should be grandfathered in. Not to sound 'age discriminatory' or anything, but haven't we 'given away' enough, already? -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR __ 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 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] Every day of Freedom...
Glenn Zemanek wrote: Every day of Freedom is a good day to Thank a Veteran. Thanks, Glenn, for volunteering to protect our freedoms. -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR __ 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 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] 40M AM?
Jim Wilhite wrote: Bob, there is a group of people on 7.195 here in the middle part of the country that have been operating there for years. The group includes many guys who have jobs that drive daily and has mobiles on the air. There are also several high power operators there. You are going to find a lot of frequencies are populated like that on 40. 7.160 is a traditional frequency for AM and not many stations inhabit it, just an occasional transit station. 40 is a tough band to find an open frequency. With the band open down to 7.125Mc, 7.140 sounds like a decent, and often open/clear frequency. -- 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 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 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] Wanted: Receiver - New England
JT Croteau wrote: AM 75M and 40M coverage is my primary interest at this time, I will NEVER be using the radio to tune in slopbucket nor CWer. SWL and 160M coverage would be nice as well but it will be a couple years before I have space for a 160M antenna. Hi-Fidelity is near the top of my must haves but not if it's results in a huge hit on receiver performance. However, I definitely don't want bottom of the barrel communications grade audio. I've been in some shacks where the audio fills the room and you can feel the audio down to your bones. I want to achieve this or as close as I can get within my budget. Define Hi-Fidelity? Just because you can 'hear' the audio better, makes it hi-fi? Hell, bubba.. if that's all you want, get some 18 woofers and a pair of tweeters, lash 'em up in a line-amp configuration, and take the 8-ohm output from your rice-box and drive them big speakers. You'd be surprised what a -big- speaker will do, on a radio that you're used to listening to, that has a speaker about the size of a quarter What about near-channel interference? Tighten up the selectivity? If you think that 6kc is 'narrow' what's gonna happen when some ssb'er snuggles up 2kc below ya? (and you -know- they will!) Any good ol' Hallicrafter or Hammarlund receiver would do you good. The HQ-170 ~ HQ-180 is a good receiver... SP-600, SX-73, National's are good... see what they go for. Occasionally one shows up here... -- 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 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 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] 40M AM?
Bob Macklin wrote: The only thing wrong with 7160 is it requires an Advanced or Extra ticket. Bob Macklin K5MYJ Seattle, Wa, What's stopping you from upgrading? Callsign *K5MYJ http://www.qrz.com/callsign/K5MYJ *Class:* General *Codes: http://www.qrz.com/i/codes.html* HVI* USA Name*Robert H Macklin* Addr1 *309 5th Ave. S. Apt. 406* Addr2 *Kent, WA 98032* Country *USA* Effective *30 Aug 2003 *Expires:* 21 Mar 2013* FRN *0008474678 *What's this? http://www.qrz.com/i/fccsoup.html FCC *ULS Listing http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=2497234* Lookups *209* Update / Renew this License... http://www.qrz.com/renewals Apply for new Vanity callsign... http://www.qrz.com/click?id=613;tag=callsign:K5MYJ;page=db * * Previously *KD7UKF* Coordinates *47.392732 -122.260066about http://www.qrz.com/i/coordinates.html * State *Washington* County *King* Grid*CN87uj* Area Code *206* GMT Offset *-8* Time Zone *Pacific* Has DST?*Y* Born*0010* -- 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 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 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] 7160
Mike Duke, K5XU wrote: There is still a little AM activity there, usually on Saturday or Sunday afternoon near 2:00 PM. There's been some AM activity on 40m on 7.290 on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, as well. At least, there used to be. I remember the hay day of 7160, especially on Saturday mornings and Saturday nights. There was John, W5MEU with a fine sounding BC610 from San Antonio, That BC-610 will be back in my shack again, soon. plus a guy named Tom, whose call I don't recall, but who had one of the best signals from a Ranger I've ever heard. Wasn't Tom in Arkansas? Had an AA5 call, as I recall. There was also a guy named Paul from Illinois. That'd be W9IEY, Paul near Chicago. I'm omitting many other calls from that 7160 group, but there were a bunch of guys there at least every weekend, and sometimes through the week as well. Oh, there were plenty of others that were on 40m, including Marv/W5TQO to name one, but a bunch more I can't remember, either. -- 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 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 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] 40M AM?
Bob Macklin wrote: You weren't in the exam room yesterday seeing people fail both the General and Novice exams. Gotta agree... anyone who can't pass a General or Extra test these days has got -serious- learning disabilities. -- 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 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 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] Replacement Tubes
Bob Macklin wrote: How many people have left the skin on their fingers on a HOT 6L6? Is it the Ranger I (1614's) or Ranger II (7027's) that have B+ on a pin, that when 6L6's are substituted, the B+ appears on the outside metal plate of the tube? Ask me how I know... BZT But, that wasn't nothing compared to the 'thrill' I got one night, while talking to John/WA5BXO on 75m one night when I got across roughly 1kVDC. Mostly went through my right thumb... but I held the 'securely grounded' D-104 in the left hand... NOT fun! Nowadays, I don't let -me-, let alone anyone else, get behind my rig while it's on the air. -- 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 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 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] Replacement Tubes
JT Croteau wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:20 AM, jeremy-ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your rig is spec'ed for 6L6's period. Manual states otherwise, manual specs and schematic says 6L6GB's. According to the specs, voltages are different between 6L6, 6L6GB, and 6L6GC with the GC's having the higher voltages. It's always been my understanding that a 6L6Gx meant it was a 6L6 in a glass tube. But, since I wasn't sure, I went looking, and did a little investigation. You can check out the differences for yourself at http://www.mif.pg.gda.pl/homepages/frank/sheets65.html Then again, as someone else said, it seems much hoopla over the differences in 6L6's and 6V6's, and yet Zero comments on a Huff-n-Puff very stable VFO project. I'm not caring enough to make this an issue. I did like my zero responses about my VFO project when we can go days comparing the 6V6 to the 6L6. Maybe I'm subscribing to the wrong reflector! ;-() -- 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 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 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: 6V6 vs 6L6
Bob Deuel wrote: All this talk about 6L6's vs 6V6's while the answers are in any tube manual... and yet, no one commented on the huff puff home-brewed VFO that Jim/WD5JKO mentioned. I, for one, wanna see the schematics. I like the idea of the thing not drifting more than 10c over an hour warm-up period... -- 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 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 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] Cap Substitution
JT Croteau wrote: I have a circuit that rectifiers power from a 24VAC tranny tap using a 1N91 to power a 24VDC relay. It calls for a 50 uF filter cap to ground. Can I substitute a 47 uF? Sure. if you're unsure, use two 47uf caps in parallel... or a pair of 33uf's... I'm reminded when I asked an instructor about 'why bother to do exact calculations for resistance and/or capacitance if the manufacturers don't make, for example, a 54.5kOhm resistor, or a 51uf capacitor? He said Ah, Geoff! Welcome to the wonderful world of Electronics! The Exacting Science of Approximation! Gotta say... he's got a point! -- 73 = Best Regards -Geoff/W5OMR __ 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 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] Todays Toy - Elmac PS-2V
JT Croteau wrote: On Feb 12, 2008 3:35 PM, Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original relay probably pooped out and was substituted with a six volt DC relay. Well, that would make sense but the relay installed is a 24V relay. Heh. Sometimes, it doesn't mater what the voltage is, as long as the current requirement is satisfied. -- 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 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 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: Using a Ranger as a driver
Gary Schafer wrote: While it is true that for 100% modulation the modulation voltage must be equal to the final plate voltage. No. Not equal to, but *twice* as much. 2*Ep But it is also misleading to say that it is strictly a function of modulation voltage. What other voltage is present at the plate (other than the DC supply voltage) if not for the AC voltage achieved by the modulator? High-level plate-modulation, we're talking about. The modulation transformer secondary works into a certain load impedance (resistance) supplied by the final plate circuit of the RF stage. While it is true that the modulation voltage must match the final plate voltage (for 100% modulation), 2*Ep. -- 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 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 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] Trico colortop fuses.
Mark Foltarz wrote: Just about any older harware store will carry those fuses. Same ones as used in houses for decades. Heck, did you try Home Depot ? de KA4JVY Not sure they have a Home Depot where Max./M0GHQ lives... -- 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 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 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] 6V6 vs. 6L6
Bob Peters wrote: Hi guys...Is the 6V6 and 6L6 interchangeable??? Small question HI!! no __ 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 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] A productive Morning
Good morning, troops! Today Today, I was able to wake up, walk, talk and complain about things I can -not- change! Today, I am TOO Blessed, to be Stressed! :-) So, while we're on the positive side of things, I think I've managed to incorporate new/old technology out in the ham-shack. Hear me out. The final is home-brewed. I'm sure you already knew that, and it runs a pair of 250TH's in push-pull, class C. Well, what you may not know is that now I have -two- RF finals, that incorporate the 250TH tubes. The original was built by a dear friend of W5BU/Dan(sk) back in the mid 50's. This one I'm using now, was built by Mike/W5IMF in the early/mid 60's. Thanks to my good friend, Duie/K5KZQ, I was able to obtain this good ol' boat-anchor and put it back on the air after 40 years of collecting dust. Works great, too ;-) NORMALLY, I would drive it with the Viking II, like I do the Titanic final, but the grid input is different on the 'new' final. In order to maintain around 125mA of grid drive (250TH's require 45mA per, for Class C. That's 90mA for a pair. Running another 15mA of grid drive on each ain't gonna hurt them big jugs ;-)) Using the Viking II, this wasn't an issue for the plug-in coil and swinging link arrangement on the original final. On the 'new' one, I've got to slip in the 160m coil, re-dip the final, unload it as much as possible and then back off of the grid drive. You know what happens to tubes in Class C when they don't have sufficient grid drive, and full plate voltage... run-a-way current shoots sky-high and there's nothing to stop it. There's protective bias on the 6146 finals of the Viking II, and I'm -sure- that's the only thing that's kept those tubes from shooting up outta their sockets like little glass rockets! What I have done in the past, with this 'new' final, was to use my little Kenwood TS-450S, all band/all mode xcvr as the RF driver. But, it takes around 35~40w to get the grid drive to the 125mA level. Kinda hard to tame a Viking II down to that level, and it's kinda hard on a solid-state rig, with the long ol' buzzard transmissions I tend to make (so I'm told) ;-) Soo... A while back, Rick/K5IAR and I made a deal on a Globe Linear. This thing uses 4 sweep tubes, something like 6DQ6's or some such. So, I got it out, hooked it up, fed RF into the darn thing, and hung it on an antenna. It'll produce around 200w output with 50w of drive from the solid-state exciter. Not bad. Then, I backed off on the carrier and power controls on the little solid-state exciter and got the exciter/amp lash-up down to a more 'reasonable' level for driving the final. Then, I connected it to the final, made some minor tuning adjustments on the grid input and voila(!) the solid-state exciter is making around 4 or 5 watts output, (no danger of hurting anything there) the Globe linear amplifier is making enough output at about 1/4th (or less) of it's maximum output, and that drives the 250TH grids right to 125mA, and it -stays- there. Nothing is wavering. Kewl! All that's left to do now, is find a set of relay contacts that I can use to key the exciter, or use the exciter to key a relay that will, in turn, activate the 110vAC T/R relay. I think the last thing I want to do, is try to make/break 110vAC out of the back of the solid state rig ;-) I think what I -really- need to try to find, is one of the dual SO-239 Dow-Key T/R Relays, and that way I could also use the Solid-state rig as the station receiver, as well. The Globe Linear does -not- have T/R switching in it. Currently, the original T/R relay is doing a good job of switching the antenna between the RCA AR-88 (Thanks to Jim/WD5JKO for the receiver) and the transmitting side of the relay. With it's 'direct frequency entry' keypad, I'd like to be able to use the Kenwood as a receiver, also. Maybe instead of, as opposed to 'in addition to'. (no, the AR-88 is -not- for sale). So, after the story, what I'm asking for is; does anyone have a dual SO-239 Dow-Key T/R relay they would be willing to part with? As always, 'deal' mails should be sent off-list. Discussion about the setup would be encouraged to be conducted -on-list-. Thanks for your time, patience and consideration. -- 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 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 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] Using Heath SB 610 Monitor Scope to monitor modulationonAM transmitter
Jim Wilhite wrote: To anyone considering an SB 610 or 614, keep in mind they must be constructed to match the IF frequency of the receiver to which they will be interfaced. Uh... I was under the impression that the 610 / 614 monitor scopes were for monitoring the 'transmitted' signal. Some of them were built to work with the Heath receivers with the 3 meg IF and those that were built for 455 Kc. had the coils that would do so. If you find one for with the 3 Kc IF coils, kc? you said 3meg(sic). Which is it? it won't work properly with a NC 300 or NC 183D for example. Heath packaged the coils for both with the units and the builder chose which he wanted. I doubt you will receive the coils that were not used during construction. Check them out before you find you have something that won't work with your receiver. So... I was under the impression that the 610 / 614 monitor scopes were for monitoring the 'transmitted' signal. Since I wasn't sure, I went looking. http://web.comhem.se/~u87540545/Heathkit/Products/pageSB610.htm Heathkit SB-610 The Heathkit SB-610 monitor scope is primarily designed for monitor the RF-signals, on-the-air signals, from the local transmitter. It can also be used to monitor received signals when connected to a receiver. It monitors RF-envelop, RF-trapezoid and RTTY pattern. SB-610 has also a built-in two-tone sinewave AF-oscillator for SSB-transmitter adjustment. The Monitor-Scope matches the SB-line. -- 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] Hamcation Report
EP Swynar wrote: Hi Mark, OK, I'll bite...just where, exactly, was this Ham Radio Xanadu, anyway...?! Google says go see www.hamcation.com -- 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] Ranger driving SB220
Patrick Thompson wrote: How did you go about getting the RF drive from the Ranger down to a level usable by the SB220? [...] I thought about a homemade pad but that's a lot of heat to throw away. Maybe a 3db pad and turn the drive down a little? AE5AW/Bill, in San Angelo, TX, inserted a roll of 50ohm coax between the Ranger I and the grid input of his GU-76 amp. He gets around 6 watts of carrier out of it, and the station sure sounds good from out in West Texas! I could lower the screen voltage but it would be nice to have the rig full power when barefoot. You could wire in a big pot, to vary the screen voltage. -- 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] Re: AMRadio Digest, Vol 49, Issue 35
D. Chester wrote: I have never understood why they went to that stupid numerical equivalent of the color code (example: a tiny 101 stamped on the body instead of brown-black-brown stripes or dots). Is this supposed to be some kind of ADA accommodation for the colour-blind? Easy there, Don ;-) Otis/K5SWK is color blind, to some extent. Back in around 1988~89, Otis was planning a trip to come visit Koby/K5MZH(sk) in San Antonio, TX and wanted to build a little hearing-aid to copy the mail on the 500 mile round trip road-trip. He was just about done with building the thing (it was only a converter, using 12v tubes, coils and can's and such) and Otis was on his knees with a VOM and a couple of piles of resistors; ones he'd checked, and ones he hadn't. Along about that time, here comes ol' John/WA5BXO sauntering through the radio/TV shop that he and Otis were partnered on, and sees Otis on his knees, and asks what in the hell are you doing down there? Otis said I'm looking for a (whatever_value) resistor to finish up my mobile receiver! John got his diddle stick out, twirled through the piles a couple of times and brought out a number of whatever value was needed and said here ya go! Otis glanced up at John with 'the look', and said 'Do you know I've been down here for durn near an HOUR looking for these things? And you come along in 20seconds and find a half dozedn! ;-) I can see where the ADA might have had a hand in putting numbers on caps/resistors, etc... BTW, Speaking of Otis.. On the 7th of February, Perry/W5KGZ, Wayne/W5DWP, John/WA5BXO, Geoff/W5OMR, Jeff/N5ECP and BJ/WB5PKD made the pilgrimage to Humble, TX and invaded a Golden Corral Restaurant to celebrate the 85th anniversary of Otis' birth. If anyone is interested, contact me off-list and I'll send a link where pictures of the event can be viewed, after I get 'em transferred over from my laptop and camera. -- 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] Re: AMRadio Digest, Vol 49, Issue 35
Peter Markavage wrote: 830 service manual shows the difference between the 830S and the 830M(AM version). Additional simple board with several transistors, relay, and some discrete components. Need a 6 KHz AM filter (the one from a TS-930 works fine). After wiring modification, Wide CW on the mode switch becomes the AM position. Not hard to implement if you feel ambitious. John/WA5BXO modified an 830 (or 820) to generate genuine AM. It doesn't receive AM, but the 4 or 5 watts out of it, drive an SB-200 (pair of 572B's) to around 50 or 60w which then, in turn, drives the grids of his 250TH final. -- 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] Re: WTB: HV Tranny
JT Croteau wrote: On Feb 7, 2008 1:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't forget about the 5881's bias battery or source. Yup, got it covered. Thanks. A few people have recommended three 9V's in series, I will likely do this. Back in my 'Johnny Novice' days, I remember when I switched modulators for my 250TH's, from a pair of 811's to a pair of 810's. Big mistake (*=read below) I also went from 0 bias, up to a requirement of -45v or some such. It's been a long time ago. T had found a bunch of old, dead/weak 9v batteries and strung 'em together. Eventually, I wound up with the required voltage but there were something like 7 or 8 batteries in series ;-) That darn handbook... said a pair of 811's was only like some 175w in Class B. But, wow, what's this? 810's have 700w?!? I GOTS TO HAVE ME SOME OF THEM (or so I thought). Contacted John Mohn/W5MEU(sk) and struck a deal. Apparently the 810's I had were either weak, or there was a severe mis-match of impedance, using that ol' buzzard RCA 5500ohm 1:1 open-frame modulation transformer. But, in order to get the same level of audio I was getting with the 811's, I had to run (-4-) 810's in push-pull parallel. Plate voltage was around 1500 on the 810s, common Final/modulator B+ supply. I only ran 1500vdc on the 811's, but a pair of 811's has 'beau coup' audio. I did some experimenting, and eventually even pulled the parallel tube on the negative peak side (two 810s on the positive peak side of the modulator, one 810 on the negative peak side. I -finally- started seeing decent peaks on the scope). I think my next modulator is going to be Four (4) 811s in push-pull parallel. I might even go with six (6) just to insure there's plenty enough dissipation for natural asymmetrical audio peaks. Having -enough modulator power- to faithfully reproduce your voice is what's required to modulate the final to 100%, with as little distortion as possible. 100% modulation, to me, is where the negative peaks hit the baseline of the carrier. When you go more negative than that, then that's where over-modulation, distortion, splatter and a whole myriad of other bad things happen that are -not- in 'good engineering practice'. The myth is: for running 500w of carrier, you need 250w of audio power. While that works out mathematically for a sine-wave, that is simply not a true statement for a carrier modulated with the rich harmonics of the human voice. -- 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] Re: Carrier with one sideband
rbethman wrote: The modern SS rigs do NOT generate AM in that manner. The last radio that I saw that used a carrier with ONE sideband for AM was the Collins KWS-1. That is precisely why I did NOT procure one when the opportunity arose. Swan did the same thing. There was a 'carrier null' adjustment on the front of the Swan 350C that I had (think the 270 and 500 had it, as well) but there was no real 'AM' mode, on the radio. With the carrier 'unbalanced', you could modulate the thing like AM and be heard on -some- diode detector type receivers. -- 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] Amateur Radio Exam Question
Ellen Rugowski wrote: Other people I knew who'd taken their Advanced Extra Class back in the 80s 90s felt the same way - the Advanced was the hard one. Our paths and time-lines are very similar, Ellen. I said -exactly- the same thing back in '88 when I got my Advanced; that it was more difficult than the Extra. Besides, who -cares- how much blanking a video signal is used to produce an all black screen? ;-) (note to all: see how the message was cleaned up, and repititious quoted text and message footers have been removed? it's -not- that hard, people!) -- 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.
[AMRadio] formula values
Van K7VS wrote: WOW! Lots of comments on this one! 73 P=E x I or is it P=I x E Back in 1991, when I was going to tech vocational school, they were in the midst of changing E to V. Figuring power is no longer as simple as P=IE... rather P=IV Vedalia? (~shrug~) E will always equal Electromotive Force, to me. -- 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] Alternatives to GatesGarbage(tm)
John Lawson wrote: Folks might also look into Sun's Star Office Suite - does each and everything that Micr$..t does, thats WP, Spreadsheet, Database, Powerpoint, etc etc - the whole thing is $80... I use it heavily in all of my business ventures, and have yet to find an incompatibility... 80 bux for all of it. Then of course, use FireFox for a browser and Thunderbird for your email - you won't be subject to the whims an vagaries of the MicroSheep (can you tell I've little use for the boys and girls in Redmond??) and you'll be a whole lot safer, as well For that matter, you could get and install your favorite version of Linux (free for downloading off the 'net, burning the 'live cd' .iso image to a disc and looking around at different distributions without installing to your drive, till you find what suits you - for free) that comes with Open Office, for free. Just think... you could have a computing experience that doesn't require the $ Micro$haft wants ever living, breathing computer-user to pay, to use 'their' software. And, there's a lot you can do with Ham radio, in general, with Linux... Did I mention that Linux is virus resistant, as well? ;-) -- 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] Golden Gate
JT Croteau wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 11:06 AM, Jose HF Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that circuit just the (screen) Modulator? Don't believe so. The talk I've seen about it indicates it's a full transmitter originally for mobiles out in the SF Bay Area (hence the name). It seemed to be quite popular in the area. It used 1/2 of a 12AT7 for a crystal oscillator driving a 6146 and screen modulated by the other half of the 12AT7. I found a thread about the Golden Gate (or something similar) via Google... the thing culminated with this posting: On Dec 9 2007, 7:15 am, W7CXA wrote: I am looking for information on a 3 tube 75 meter am transmitter that was around about 1958. Two of the tubes were 6146, one for modulator and one for final. I cant remember what the oscillator was. J. Andy Thompson W7CXA Yakima, WA Back in the 50's there was a very popular TWO tube mobile transmitter used by several mobile operators on 3995... Developed by Bob Carter, W6NTU who lived up on the side of Mt. Hamilton near San Jose... It used a12AT7 driving a sweep tube... Several of the fellows in addition to a variant of sweep tubes, used a 6146 and an occasional 2E26 in the final as well depending on available plate voltage... Half of the 12AT7 was the Oscillator, the other half was modulator... Carter Modulation transmitters were very popular due to their simplicity and performance. When loaded a bit on the heavy side, the audio sounded quite good... Go to:http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/4513/carter.html For a bit of History and a schematic of the transmitter... Remember load that lil sucker fairly heavy with very little perceptible plate dip for best audio results... Good Luck de Grady K6IXA -- 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] My latest toy has arrived, an ART-13A
On the subject of ART-13's, Gary/WA5FWC, in Venus, TX, has three of 'em that he's refurbished to original condition. He would likely be a good source of information. I do not believe Gary is a member of this reflector. -- 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] OFF TOPIC POST MOSLEY
Phil LaMarche wrote: On www.qth.com there's a listing for ART-13 parts that I tried to copy and paste that the reflector refused. Just search ART-13. The reflector only accepts plain text postings. Best to just cut-n-copy the link. -- 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] Survey Results are in!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All Thank you for participating in my little ad-hoc survey of AMers. I will copy the results below. For those responers who responded openly to the list, I thank you and since everyone has already seen your comments, there is no need for me to copy them. For those who responded to me directly and not to the list, then i will honor your trust and not publish your comments. You are free to list your comments yourselves, of course. We had 22 responders. The favorite band was 80 meters, the favorite antenna was a dipole. I was surprized that the favorite feed line was ladder, not coax. Most people use a transmatch, and the vast majority use separate transmitters and receivers. Most activity takes place in mornings or evenings, and on weekends. Most of us spend 4 to 10 hours per week on the hobby, and another surprize was that two thirds of respondents prefer technical work to operating. Total Responders 22 I had forgot about this survey, as I was out of town for the last two weeks. Put me down for an 80m opearator, using a full-wave Delta loop, fed with 450-ohm ladder line, using separate transmitter and receiver, RX is commercial and TX is (mostly) homebrew. Final is hb, exciter is commercial, audio is modified commercial/homebrew. As for how long? uhm... depends on the round table and how many a day I get into. typically a couple of hours, every morning (when I'm home). 14~20 hrs a week sometimes... sometimes as little as 4 hours a month. As I've stated, I don't care how something -looks- as long as it -works- well! -- 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] My latest toy has arrived, an ART-13A
Bob Macklin wrote: WHAT IS IT? ...read the subject... __ 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 My latest toy has arrived, an ART-13A
jeremy-ca wrote: Interesting. Im using OE and it displays if I put the cursor on the line and also if I move the tab at the top over a bit. Ive no experience with other email programs, learned something new. Anyway it is an ART-13A Y'all need to get off that M$ proprietary junk... Thunderbird is a -much- better email client. -- 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] Wanted: Ranger front panel
Peter Wittenberg SR wrote: Gary, Howard Mills W3HM strips adn repaints these panels. Contact him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call at 304-876-6483. Dee Almqiist (sp?) is yet another alternative, as Dee does the front panels on Johnson gear, as well. Personally, I don't give a damn about how something looks, as long as it works well. -- 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] Wanted: Ranger front panel
Mike Sawyer wrote: I'm pretty sure that is who Howard would sub-contract out to. However, I talked with Dee about a year ago on 160. I thought he indicated to me he was getting out of business. But don't quote me on that;) Dee has a silk screening process that he does to the front panel of those old johnson rigs. I've seen a couple that he's done, and no doubt, they come out looking better than they did when they were brand new in the 50's and 60's. Somewhere, some hamfest, someone had a Ranger I,, that had a re-finished front panel, and the owner then had the case chrome plated. Looked sharp... but it wasn't 'right' looking if I were going for aesthetics). I think I want to build up a single 6080, or 6SA7... some dual-triode tube with substantial plate dissipation, and then modulate it with a pair of the same. -- 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] The Viking II is FINALLY starting to work
Ellen Rugowski wrote: Hi Everybody, Hi, Ellen! :-) The Viker loaded up, and finally produced power (about 125W on CW, key down). Plate current is not maxed, but still may be a little high (about 220 mA), on key down. Completely the expected output power for the indicated plate current. 220mA is about where the book says to load it on AM... I think you can even go a bit more on CW but you'll probably get closer to chirps and clicks if you load it 'all the way'. Even on phone, it's better on the 6146's to drop the plate current down to just under 200mA (say 180 or 190mA). You're not drawing as much current though the secondary of the modulation transformer and the difference in power output is 90w vs 110. Who's gonna know? Also. a couple of times when I keyed down, I saw some smoke curling up out of either the area of the finals, or the loading capacitor. I'm not sure which is the culprit. good luck on finding that culprit. I hope, for your sake, that it's just dust. Per Rodger's suggestions, I'll check things out some more today, now that I'm not so tired (I didn't finish working on it until almost 11:30 PM). sometimes, it's hard to see the forest for all those trees in the way ;-) Take a break from your project once in a while and then come back to it, to gain a new/different perspective. -- 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] Building my first regenerative RX
AirRadio wrote: That looks really great, I have almost enough bits in my junkbox to construct this ( might even have a Selenium rectifier! hihi) I love the sound of breaking glass, now where's all those old dead octals gone? Seriously though you don't have to use old tube bases but you might have to recalculate the coil dimensions, I wonder if there is a simple transmitter to go with it? 73 Max M0GHQ Jon/AD5HR built up a single 5763 plate modulated by a pair of 6AQ5's. He drew it up, and says if anybody wants a copy, to drop him an Self Abused Stomped Antelope (SASE) to his address that is good at ww.qrz.com -- 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] Re: New IP address
rbethman wrote: Don, It really depends on your ISP. I've had Comcast for about 9 years. I've had the same IP Address the whole time. While it is NOT a static address, it is still always the same. Of course once you hit my internal router - all bets are off! Being a computer type by profession, I have my own network and methods in place to keep the bad guys and things out. Bob - N0DGN D. Chester wrote: same thing at my place, Bob. I think my ip has changed 4 times over the last 5 years. While the ISP (same, I think, as John's, just a different city) declares that thou shalt not run servers, port re-direction works fine, and those that have been invited to look at some of the AM Related pictures, files, schematics, tube-data-sheets, etc... know about it. It's also what allows me, through a pgp encrypted and password protected ip tunnel through the firewall on the linux server at home, to access my workstation while I'm on the road (as I am now). Laissez les *bon ton roulette*! -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff, W5OMR/5 New Orleans __ 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: New IP address
John Coleman wrote: My IP here at work where the server is located, is a static IP commercial account. It was changed only because of the Comcast take over. ooo, I forgot about that happening. John (and anyone else interested) try www.speakeasy.net and check your speed, now. I believe the Dallas server would be closest to you. -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff, W5OMR/5 New Orleans __ 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: National Anthem
Todd, KA1KAQ wrote: On Jan 24, 2008 1:05 AM, Geoff/W5OMR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forget if it was the National Anthem or the Star Spangled Banner... And they give you cash, which is just as good as money - Yogi Berra, 2006 errrm.. we need to get you out more, Geoff - or at least, on the air. hard to get on the air, when I'm not home... (again) -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR/5 New Orleans __ 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: Mike, W5FZ
D. Chester wrote: Mike's call used to be K5FZJ (or was it WA5FZJ?), dunno... that was before I met him in 1985/6 when he was (then) K5FZ (Fuzzy Zipper) and then he got it changed to W5FZ. I ran into him at Dayton one year, the first time I ever met him in person. Haven't heard him on the air for years. What happened to him? And has he changed call signs again? He has. The last time I worked Mike, he was W5MP (Mike Palmer) and he was in Costa Rica (/TI5) and it was on 17m ssb. Last I heard, his whole (married) family was down there.. wife, kids... she wanted to go back to Houston - he wanted to stay. He stayed, and she left. Dunno anything more than that. -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR/5 New Orleans __ 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: Recent insulting threads
D. Chester wrote: Wasn't he the one with the Kelvinator Kilowatt, a transmitter built into an old refrigerator? Not sure if he called it a 'Kelvinator', but Johnny/W5TMI in Bomerton, TX (back in the 50's/60's) build up his 40m rig in a refrigerator... If that (the anthem proposal) had passed, wouldn't it be cool to play the Jemi Hendrix version (IMO the best instrumental rendition of the national anthem ever played by anyone) at the end of every QSO? Seems I recall that Mike (then)W5FZ, Lee/W0VT and Darrell/WA5VGO when they resurrected the prototype KW-1, they played a patriotic tune. I forget if it was the National Anthem or the Star Spangled Banner... but on it's inaugural transmission, something patriotic was played. -- 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] TBW 800 Hz Power Supply
jeremy-ca wrote: All I have up at the moment for the Viking I is a 75M sloper off a tower. My other antennas are still all wired into the regular station in the basement. All this snow caught me unprepared. and poor Todd/KA1KAQ is missing it, because he's down in Tampa (or was, at least) BTW, Carl - I've seen an ART-13 in operation, once. The auto-tune feature was a work of art. Just remember to keep the knobs 'locked' when you invoke the auto-tune feature. Ask Gary/WA5FWC what a pain in the ...neck... that was ;-) -- 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.
[AMRadio] blast from the past
REWARD OFFERED A REWARD OF 500 MICROFARADS IS OFFERED FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE ARREST OF THIS DESPERATE CRIMINAL: HOP-A-LONG CAPACITY THIS UNRECTIFIED CRIMINAL ESCAPED FROM A WESTERN PRIMARY CELL WHERE HE HAD BEEN CLAMPED IN IONS AWAITING THE GAUSS CHAMBER. HE WAS CHARGED WITH THE INDUCTION OF AN 18 TURN COIL NAMED MILLIHENRY WHO WAS FOUND CHOKED AND ROBBED OF VALUABLE JOULES. HE IS ARMED WITH A CARBON ROD AND IS A POTENTIAL KILLER. CAPACITY IS ALSO CHARGED WITH DRIVING DC MOTOR OVER A WHEATSTONE BRIDGE AND REFUSING TO LET THE BAND-PASS. IF ENCOUNTERED, HE MAY OFFER SERIES OF RESISTANCE. THE ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE SPENT THE NIGHT SEARCHING FOR HIM IN A MAGNETIC FIELD, WHERE HE HAD GONE TO EARTH. THEY HAD NO SUCCESS AND BELIEVED HE HAD RETURNED OHM VIA A SHORT CIRCUIT. HE WAS LAST SEEN RIDING A KILOCYCLE WITH HIS FRIEND EDDY CURRENT WHO WAS PLAYING A HARMONIC. For Those Who Understand, No Explanation Is Necessary. For Those Who Do Not Understand, No Explanation Is Possible. -- 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] Season's Greetings
Rick Brashear wrote: Here's wishing everyone on this fantastic reflector a very Merry Christmas. I hope Santa fills your stockings with all kinds of radio goodies! Merry Christmas, Rick, and all y'all. (a true southerner knows that the plural of 'ya'll' is 'all y'all' ;-) ) And a Happy New Year! Heavy Metal Rally is... when? 29th/30th? -- 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] bandplan thoughts
Peter Markavage wrote: Well, thanks for this rather enlightening view of the ARRL/big three and ARRL/FCC ongoing conspiracies. It adds a new dimension to the X-File syndrome. It also seems clear that some don't really have a clear understanding of the dealer/manufacturer relationship but that's also probably another conspiracy. I'm also happy to see that we can inject some humor into our posts from time to time. Mock and scoff all you want, Peter. The relationship between the ARRL and radio manufacturers is undeniable. -- 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] bandplan thoughts
Peter Markavage wrote: You said: Explain to me why CW is no longer a requirement for a Ham Radio license This question really should be addressed to But, it wasn't. You beat the ARRL drum rather loudly, Pete. I (and others) have been saying the same thing about the ARRL and the YeaCommWood bunch for a while, now. The manufacturers whine and complain that they are not selling enough radios. They strike a deal with the ARRL (need I remind you, that the FCC consideres the ARRL as being -the- voice of Ham Radio?) and give them 'x' amount of dollars if they lower the licensing requirements so more people can become hams and they can (*gasp*) sell more radios. Pure economics 101, with some back-room lawyering going on. YeaCommWood tells the ARRL here, we'll do -this- for you if you'll do 'that' for us, the ARRL slips the bribe in their pocket and then rares back on it's hind haunches and tells the FCC that Amateur radio needs to do 'this and that', gets it done, and now Johnny Novice no longer has to draw a schematic of a transmitter, he can chose from multiple guess answers, or Johnny Novice no longer has to know CW faster than 5wpm to use Voice on HF, or (latest) Johnny Novice now no longer has to know CW at -all- to get a Ham License and it's all done, Pete, in the name of 'selling more radios' so that the 'shack on a belt' crowd can spend their money on the new YeaCommWood radio that costs as much as an economy automobile! A 5 digit price-tag for a SSB transceiver? For that kind of money, the damned thing had better grow legs and change the cat's litter box! ;-) I bet the SSB crowd would love to hear carriers with digital signals riding over them. I'm all for 2.5kc of deviation and FM as a viable mode on 75m, when signals warrant and selective fading doesn't totally screw up the signal. Jim/WD5JKO (of this list) had a problem with RFI in his telephone, and he switched from Amplitude Modulation to Phase Modulation on his QRO'ed CE-20A. I couldn't hear much difference on my receiving end, but his claim was that there was no longer 'other voices' in his wife's telephone conversation. Something to think about. -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR (Home in San Antone) __ 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] Transformer Rewind
Jim Wilhite wrote: Dave, contact Gary/WZ1M at [EMAIL PROTECTED] He has done work for me and does a good job. Jim/W5JO Gary's gonna be a busy beaver, since the announcement that Peter Dahl in El Paso has closed it's doors and is taking no more orders... and their shelves are empty of transformers. -- 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] Transformer Rewind
jeremy-ca wrote: The input coil is common to all bands in the 75A1, the secondary is then fed to the band switch. Check the antenna coil primary first and then the secondary for continuity. Rewinding shouldnt be that hard if the form hasnt been destroyed. The hardest part will be removing it from the assembly. A couple of decades ago, I accidently dumped a few hundred watts of RF directly into the front-end of an SX-73, on 75m. The input coil took the brunt of the damage. John Mohn/W5MEU(sk) told me to come out there and get some 24ga copper wire to re-wind that coil. Very carefully, I removed the phoenelic board from the turret in which the coil was installed, then ever so-much-more carefully, removed the coil from the board. There was a spot on the coil that -wasn't- burnt, so I was able to count turns, and re-wind the coil. Luckily, I was working at Southwest Research Institute at the time, and was able to utilize a small-wattage iron, some organic stripper and a magnifying glass to re-solder the connections. -- 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] ER Magazine
Peter Markavage wrote: Back in the good old days real hams didn't need Elmers. The 'good ol' days'? ~~~ *What AM Is To Me* by John E. Coleman, WA5BXO *O*perating AM is not about communicating using the most efficient mode of transmission or the latest technology. It is about technical understanding of what is really happening in one's transmitter. Not just the standard old definitions but down in the nitty-gritty. It is about understanding the technology of old and new. It's about understanding why one circuit is better suited for a job than another even though both have the same definition. It is about home-brew equipment and modifications. It is about fellowship and a gentleman's mannerisms. It is about fun in learning. It's a little new stuff mixed with some nostalgia and used in a mode that is pleasurable to the operator and the listener. Sounds a lot like Ham Radio in general. Don't misunderstand me, there is a lot more to Ham Radio than operating AM. There are so many aspects of Ham Radio that I'm sure I could not do the list justice. For this I am glad. Ham Radio has always been the seeds of electronic and communication technology. And I hope it continues to be. Somewhere deep in my brain are the memories of the days of learning and wonderment. I can not forget the first time I saw the bottom of the Sears 1950 TV as the repairman went in with his meter and hand tools to repair the set so that I could watch Roy Rogers and Dale Evans on the next Saturday Morning. All the tubes glowing and how did it get in there (the picture and the sound) I asked myself and many others. Then later while in high school and having upgraded to general class, I was privileged to not only see some of the greatest radio transmitters to have ever been home brewed, but I was known by the men that built them on a first name basis. Walking in to the shack of K5SWK in the evening to see the 833s and 866s glowing and to hear the feedback from the modulation transformer and slight hum of the pole pegs is a memory that will always make me stop what I doing and ponder the nostalgia. Do I operate AM because I can't let go of a childhood memory? You bet I do. And I hope to stir some of those memories in others if possible and to plant some seeds of my own. Many Thanks and 73 to those Elmers Wayne, W5FJS Otis, K5SWK Tom, K5IBW Koby, K5MZH Jake, K5IQV Bill, WA5DWXGene, WA5ATH Gene, W5HQJ Roy, W5MRY Steve, K5LTK Ronnie, K5MKB Don, K4KYV This is just to name a few and I know that a lot are silent keys and some have changed their calls. But I will always remember them with the calls heard first. ~ Pete, John either just made, or is going to make 60 years old, this year. He got his novice as a freshman or sophomore in high school. We're talking some 40 years ago. How far back does one have to go to be in the 'old days'? -- 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] bandplan thoughts
Peter Markavage wrote: You said: The real (ed. real I'll assume this is your own personal definition) ham who can build a transmitter and receiver is ignored. CW is archaic! A.M. is simply a bunch of guys who reject change. To me, there is something inherently wrong with this. Lovers of homebrew, CW, AM, Digital, QRP, Packet, Contesting, traffic nets, etc. are all special interest groups of ham radio operators. The ARRL has said on a number of occasions that as long as there is interest in these activities, the ARRL will continue to support them. The etc probably includes dozens and dozens more. Trying to maintain an equitable support for all them at the same time can be a monumental task even for the ARRL. Are you saying that the ARRL, while saying they'll support the 'special interest groups' as long as their used? Explain to me why CW is no longer a requirement for a Ham Radio license. CW is -still- being used on the ham bands. Removing CW from a Ham Test doesn't sound, to me, like it's a mode that the ARRL supports. What's next? 3kC AM? And, really... what's all this hoopla about, anyway? Haven't we already discussed (to death) the lack of enforcement on existing rules and regs? So, someone is running 2.5kW on positive peaks on his AM rig. As long as the rig is as spectrally clean as possible, and the station is run with good 'common sense', no one is ever going to say a word about it. There's been -so- much discussion about how to properly measure PEP, and there are those 'hams' out there that SWEAR their (_insert_mfgr_here_) SWR/peak-reading/ohm/volt/amp/watt meter is the absolute -best- but the bottom line is, if there is still so much controversy about HOW to measure PEP, who's going to set the standard as far as figuring how -wide- an AM signal is? More importantly, 'who cares'? 6kc of AM for hams is the 'standard'. Sure, you can generate a 15kc wide signal, but if the remote receiver is only set to 3, or 4.5kc to remove adjacent channel interference, who's gonna hear it? -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR/5 New Orleans __ 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] ER Magazine
A.R.S. - WA5AM wrote: On Dec 15, 2007 6:44 AM, Geoff/W5OMR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Markavage wrote: Back in the good old days real hams didn't need Elmers. The 'good ol' days'? We're talking some 40 years ago. How far back does one have to go to be in the 'old days'? Well Geoff, I'd say it's a relative thing. Your good old days may not be the same as other people. Sound reasonable? I wasn't trying to start an argument, Brian... just stating a fact ;-) *I* won't even classify the days when *I* got my ticket as 'the good ol' days', as I didn't get licensed until 1984. However, being born in 1958 to a ham that already had 20 years of hamming under his belt, I grew up in what I consider to be the 'good ol' days'. That was back about the time they finally let 40m be something other than a 'CW Only' band, and included 'fone. It was about the same time hams got access to 15m (after giving up what has often been referred to as 'the best DX band hams ever had - 11m), and 5m got moved to 6m, because of the popularity of television. Channel 1 In my childhood, there were BC-610's, there were DX-100's, there were Heathkit Cheyanne/Commanche twin mobile radios, there were xtal controlled aircraft radios somewhere up in the VHF range - don't remember if it was 6 or 10m... there were SX-28's, RME-somethingoranothers, homebrewed gear up the wahzoo and more parts than any one person could ever shake a stick at. -- 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] bandplan thoughts
Todd, KA1KAQ wrote: My recollection of the whole digital mess was more a concern of unattended operation being allowed, along with puzzlement as to why we needed robots sending email over amateur frequencies, inevitably of a commercial nature in some way(s), not unlike the perceived need for BPL, to carry internet activity. Oh, yeah... that's -exactly- what I want... An automated digital system, consuming 15kc of spectrum, delivering spam mail via amateur frequencies telling me I need to increase my *manhood*. /sarcasm -- 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] Crystal Mic Elements
John Coleman wrote: Does anyone know if someone is making and selling the cartridges for the D104. I thought we went thought all that, a few years ago, and Otis bought a few (several?) Crystal Element cartridges. Does he have any left? Time to go visit the Ancient One, anyway... -- 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] Crystal Mic Elements
Robert Lawson wrote: Geoff, Yep, we did go through that a few years ago at length, When I said we, I was referring to John/BXO and I (as in replying to his message). John, Otis, and someone else, forget now who it was... Steve/K5LTK, perhaps, ordered some D-104 cartridges. In fact, I think they were the JT-30 replacement crystal cartridges, which have a very similar sound to them, if not a bit 'richer'. With the right amount of EQ, any microphone can be made to sound -at least- acceptable on the air. John, in particular, came up with an RC network, incorporating some inverse feed-back on a 12AX7 mic preamp that flattens out the audio response on most any crystal element mic (like a D-104 or JT-30, etc...) http://www.qsl.net/wa5bxo/xtal-mic-eq.gif -- 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] Re: RCA 1:1 mod xfmr
Mike Sawyer wrote: If its the one I'm thinking of, I have one of those. It has a tertiary winding for the screens and a funky secondary max. I of 0.193 A(?) The one I was looking for but needs repaired is 10300 Pri. and 4300 sec. If memory serves me, it was used in a KW transmitter. Mine goes in my RCA ET-4336F transmitter. A rig that uses 813's X 805's for 250 watts, (very lightly rated. Same transformer. The one I have actually is stamped 0.198mA DC. Others I've seen, state 200mA as the max secondary current. I'm still not sure if that's where saturation of the core starts, or that's where saturation of the core -is-. Otis/K5SWK uses the same transformer in his single 833 x 833's rig. I've ran a pair of 250TH's on one, modulating another pair. Also used that same transformer with push-pull 811's, and then later changed to 810's. It took (4) 810s, with that transformer, to get the same amount of audio I was getting from a pair of 811's. then again, not too sure of the condition of the 810's. They came out of a foot-locker that John/W5MEU had stashed away for so long, he forgot about 'em (and that's not like John!) I ran two on the positive side, and one on the negative side. positive peaks were about 3:1. My next modulator is going to contain (4) 811's in push-pull parallel. Maybe (6), at 1250v on the plates, and (-)0v bias. That should take care of any asymmetrical audio. -- 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] Building
Greg wrote: Small world: I have the same 70 watt modulation transformer I think. It's for an FAA AM transmitter too. Two 6146's in the modulator side to one 4x150. Also has a tertiary winding for the PA screen. The idea here is to modulate a single 4-65a. It's the only glass tube I could find that matched the load impedance and has a screen grid too. If you can think of another glass tube that might match up, please let me know. I had the schematic for the transmitter (TV 6?) too but lost it somehow. I do have the pin out for the iron. If I remember correctly the transmitter was made by GE but don't quote me. 811's modulating 813's, or 4-125's would utilize the screen winding. But, it's better than any 70-watt transformer. this think is open frame, every bit of 8 from end to end, around 6 or 8 tall, and about 5 or 6 thick. Weighs around 40 or 50lbs. -- 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] Re: AMRadio Digest, Vol 46, Issue 112
Breaking all of my traditions, I'm quoting your entire post, Bob. Every thing you send is that way. -Geoff/W5OMR Bob Peters wrote: I have no idea Terry. No one has ever said anything. I think that my e mail is set up properly..Anyone else seen that on my posts??? The e mail that you sent back is not that way... Bob W1PE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] n.qth.net] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 11:20 PM To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Subject: [AMRadio] Re: AMRadio Digest, Vol 46, Issue 112 Dear Bob P, Hi. Just a silly question. From a newbie. Do your posts always look like the one below? Makes them very hard to read, y'know. Maybe it's a setting on yer email that is goofy, maybe it's southwestern bell that's being looney. either way it's really tough to read this squish-ed lefthand stuff. When all is done and all is said, at LEAST you dint have no *^%*^ six-level-deep imBED. G 73, Terry B KC9KEL __ __ quote Message: 1 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:29:15 -0600 From: Bob Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [AMRadio] F/S Volumax To: AM amradio@mailman.qth.net, Boatanchors [EMAIL PROTECTED] v Message-ID:! !AAAYAFQhIcQs4 gVIsU6CTbToFvbCgAAAEPGQacJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ll.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi All, Before the nasty Bay I thought I would give ya all a chance at a nice Audio Processor. Now that I am running the Class D I don't need it. Don't really Know the value but make me an offer or a nice trade offer. It is the VOLUMAX 4300 And I have the manual with it. I used it on the Viking II and on the GPT and it worked great. Anyway offers??? Very Best 73's Bob W1PE The Voice of Mesquite www.w1pe.com Money is only temporary, but radios are forever - Jim Little aka the old dog/K5BAI unquote __ __BRBRBR ** BRCheck out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products.BR (http://money.aol.com/special/ hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop0 00301)/HTML __ __ __ 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. -- 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] Re: AMRadio Digest, Vol 46, Issue 112
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I'm seeing the squished left mail also. But only with the AM reflector. Others are normal to my QTH. I only see it on Bob's posts. -- 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] Re: AMRadio Digest, Vol 46, Issue 112
Bob Peters wrote: Ok Guys it is fixed I hope now. It was set for 30 Charectors and Now set for 72 ...Hope that all have it better...Jim W5JO told me How to fix my outlook... -much- better -- 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] TUBES NEEDED
Bob Peters wrote: Hi All...I need some 6DQ5 tubes.I just picked up a Gonset G76 and it has 1 in the final and Two in the modulator...Would like to find at least 3. Thanks guys. Contact Jim/WD5JKO. He's got -two- G76's, and I'll bet he keeps running spares for 'em. -- 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] Building
jeremy-ca wrote: Old Handbooks, especially the Radio version have extensive charts of the PP load of most tubes used a modulators and you already know that the VT-127A's are basically 100TH's so you can easily determine their load impedance. If you loaf them at 500W input using say 1700V @ 300ma for instance (rounded off) the mod xfmr secondary must be close to 5666 Ohms. A fine and fitting job for the RCA 1:1 modulation transformer, with 5,500 ohms on primary and secondary. Then knowing the PP load of the modulators and the turns ratio of the xfmr you can determine what works. If you want to get 'close enough', then, at 1500v, run 4 100TH's in push-pull parallel in the modulator for effectively 4400 ohms, plate-to-plate impedance, according to the Eimac tube data sheet. According to it, a pair of 100TH's in AB(1) has a plate-to-plate load impedance of 8800 ohms. That's kinda high to work into a 5500 ohm transformer. 4400 ohms is -much- closer. -- 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] Building
Mike Sawyer wrote: Geoff said: A fine and fitting job for the RCA 1:1 modulation transformer, with 5,500 ohms on primary and secondary. **I wish I had said transformer. Got one here, but it's for a similar project. BTW, it handles a pair of 250TH's at 2000v 'just fine'. I -do- have to run a reactor choke, as the secondary is limited to 200mA of DC current. I -believe- that's where core saturation occurs. If you want to get 'close enough', then, at 1500v, run 4 100TH's in push-pull parallel in the modulator for effectively 4400 ohms, plate-to-plate impedance, according to the Eimac tube data sheet. According to it, a pair of 100TH's in AB(1) has a plate-to-plate load impedance of 8800 ohms. That's kinda high to work into a 5500 ohm transformer. 4400 ohms is -much- closer. **Doesn't that make quite a bit of Cg-p? You would need some large neutralizing capacitors because of the combined C of the parallel tubes. In class AB(1)? Audio, not RF. Four 100TH's to modulate a pair. -- 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] Building
David Knepper wrote: I have one that was made by RCA. It is rated for 1KW Pick-up only. the one 'what', Dave? Modulation transformer? Pick-up only? has anyone seen the current conditions outside? Currently, national radar shows the entire state of Pennsylvania as being snowed upon. -- 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] ft102 arrived...
Brett Gazdzinski wrote: I got the first one today, and what a mess. Another ebay special, you pay to much and get crap... Something to keep you busy on those cold New Jersey nights ;-) Well, its something to play with, and it will make a good RF driver to excite the homebrew rigs. Might be interesting to be able to operate the rig via remote... like up-stairs, or from a UHF talkie through a UHF receiver at the rig... connect a generic transistor across the discriminator that would forward bias the transistor to ON, and connect the output to the PTT line on the exciter. Rig comes on when signal received. +/- 5kc of deviation is ~10kc of audio... into an input on the speech-amp.. voila! Remote operation. You could even possibly use one of those simple phono-oscillators that were floating about a while back, on some simplex frequency, and set the memory channel in the talkie to listen on one freq, and transmit on another.. so, then you've got the little phono-oscillator transmitting the receiver audio to the talkie... and the talkie being heard by the UHF rig in the house, and passed onto an input on the speech amp. Keying is controlled by the discriminator full-quieting signal... Technical enough? ;-) -- 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] F/S Volumax
Bob Peters wrote: It is the VOLUMAX 4300 And I have the manual with it. Anyway offers??? Here's what I found on the Volumax 4300... in 1970, CBS Laboratories produced a revolutionary product. The Volumax 4300. The first analog signal processor for maximum loudness. It contains two circuits. A special compressor, and a peak limiter. This device is connected after the main slow acting compressor. The special compressor is a FAST acting compressor. Unlike the main compressor, this one has a medium-fast attack time, around 8.5 msec, and a relatively fast release time, around 260 msec. Percussive sounds faster than 8 msec do not trigger the compressor and go straight through with their original volume level. The syllabic sounds are compressed and the gain is re-adjusted very quickly due to the 260 msec. This only works well if the average signal input is relatively constant - the job of the main slow acting compressor. The two compressors work together in preventing gain pumping, and allow percussive sounds to sound loud because they don't reduce the gain of the second compressor (ie. their attack time is not altered), yet the syllabic variations are highly compressed and are brought up to maximum gain quickly, making the signal sound very loud, with a further increase of 6 dB or 4x power compared to not using it. ... Thus the second circuit in the Volumax 4300 is an unsymmetrical clipping circuit which takes care of the negative peaks, fixing them at the -100% modulation level. The 6dB improvement from this device alone is all totally useable since at no time will the transmitter be overmodulated in the negative direction, neither will it be undermodulated, as the average signal will always be close to the clipping level. Every top 40 radio station wanted one of these. One does not really hear any distortion because the energy in the clipped peaks is very low - and what is left can fully modulate the transmitter toward -100% almost continuously! On the other side of the coin, there are these comments... / I have at one site a Volumax 4300. It's a single channel 1U AM processor. / / I believe that model had the clipper diodes BEFORE the output // transformer. Self induced tilt and overshoot! / Yeah, its peak control wasn't that great. But it did work ok for limiting a netcast. Mind you, these reports are from 'professional broadcasters'. Amateur signals aren't nearly as 'broad' as broadcast professional stations. Typically, an Amateur AM signal is 6kc wide. Broadcast stations have a 10kc channel spacing. Isn't there something in the Rules and regs about emission bandwidth? Hmmm... seems the only thing I can find, is: (1) No angle-modulated emission may have a modulation index greater than 1 at the highest modulation frequency. (2) No non-phone emission shall exceed the bandwidth of a communications quality phone emission of the same modulation type. The total bandwidth of an independent sideband emission (having B as the first symbol), or a multiplexed image and phone emission, shall not exceed that of a communications quality A3E emission. however, Part 97 doesn't not define what the width of a 'quality A3E emission' is. I -did- find, however, what appears to be a reply to a petitioner.../* 10.* Regarding Petitioner's request that amateur stations transmitting emission type A3E not be authorized to occupy more than 5.6 KHz bandwidth on amateur frequencies below 28.8 MHz, _we agree with commenters who note Petitioners have not demonstrated there to be a particular problem with stations that transmit AM emissions. Moreover, the Commission has previously declined to restrict bandwidth for AM because to do so would be inconsistent with the basic purpose of amateur service and our desire to offer amateur operators the opportunity to experiment with various types. It appears that currently, an AM transmitter can have a width of 6kc. I feel, as Amatuers, we should probably limit ourselves to something around the 6kc area, just to be 'neighborly' to our near-frequency neighbors, as to reduce the amount of bickering and bitching on the band, which would lead to a much more enjoyable environment to all hams, regardless of what mode we are on. _/ -- 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.
[AMRadio] Welcome K1KQ
Not to be confused with KA1KAQ :-) Nice to work you this morning, Roger. Your 756Pro had a GREAT AM signal into San Antonio from the Buda/Kyle area (south of Austin). I can just imagine what the signal will be like with the Collins rig and the 813's amp! We're on most every morning on 3.880, so when you get through with your 20m sched, c'mon down! You'll generally find Perry/W5KGZ near Beaumont, Wayne/W5DWP in Vidor, TX, Yogie/KC5MIP, Jon/AD5HR, Jerry/N5CBW, Geoff/W5OMR (when he's in town) and sometimes others, depending on the day. More, of course, on the weekends and holidays. Come on back, every chance you get! I'm still searching for a place to watch the Cowboys/Packers game, this evening... -- 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] OT: Greenbay/Dallas
David Knepper wrote: Thank you for this information - very much appreciated as I follow basketball closely. as in you root for the 4-10 76'ers? (said from the comfort of home, where we enjoy the 13-3 World Champion San Antonio Spurs) ;-) Ok, ok... enough - back to AM Radio. AM Radio, where if you're a Time-Warner subscriber, you can only 'listen' to the Cowboy/Packer game on WOAI 1200kHz AM. -- 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] Re: Beer can silliness
D. Chester wrote: I remember hearing W2OY when he was on the air. Dick, W2UJR(SK) wrote up a story published in The AM Press/Exchange, about his friendship as a JN with Mike. According to Dick, many of Mike's eccentricities were a big put-on, and actually he was a nice guy in real life. He just got a big kick out of playing his over-the-air persona. No Kids, no Lids, no Space Cadets, no School bus drivers... ;-) There was a thread a while back on Mike, and a link to someone's recording of his 'infamous' CQ... -- 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.
[AMRadio] direction of the list (WAS: Rinaldo's bandwidth suggestion)
started it! Surely, we're better than THAT! (aren't we?) -- 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] Subscribe to the ARRL ?
David Knepper wrote: Steve, read my email. Perhaps, a mass mailing to the League rather than the use of email would be more effective. It is so easy to delete email but at least a letter has to be opened! It DOES? Generally, if I know what it is, there's no need to go through it twice.. I toss it, unopened, in the trash. In today's technologically advanced age of communication, e-mail and fax are the preferred ways of business communications. -- 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] Subscribe to the ARRL ?
David Knepper wrote: In all due respect, on what authority do you make such a statement? If someone takes the time to write a letter with first class postage, I read it. I am not you, David. Just because that's something -you- chose to do, do not automatically ass/u/me that everyone does things the same way -you- do. Make no mistake, I am in charge of -my- life. Therefore, under the authority of being the primary care giver of myself, I make that statement, and I'll live by it, too. -- 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] Subscribe to the ARRL ?
David Knepper wrote: Next time, someone member of my family or a friend has a birthday, I will use an email card electronically generated - how cheap can one get. I guess you like an electronically QSL card, too. Again, David... just because that's the way -YOU- do things, doesn't mean that the rest of the world should follow in your footsteps. I will make my -own- decisions, thankyouverymuch. I'm cheap? Perhaps. I'm not arrogant. -- 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] Halli HT37 Phasing Mod problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have been trying to get this like new HT37 on the air for awhile. The audio phasing modulator has been near impossible to properly ballance espeially using the manual instructions. Refresh my memory (I have (3) HT-37's, but not played with any of 'em in over 3 years)... is the problem you're having not being able to -null- the carrier completely, or is it just that the carrier isn't nulling in the spot where the book says it should? All three of my HT-37's will null, but in different spots. Sometimes, the back-and-forth for the two carrier null adjustments is rather tedious. -- 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] IARU - VP ARRL contact by WD5BZO
I agree with what Van said: Pete. This whole issue has gotten totally out of control. In my opinion. Responding to the kind of comments made by Todd is a waste of time. This whole business is a non-issue and some people have just too much time on their hands. Van, K7VS ... but, one more thing needs to be cleared up, which *might* remove the ARRL sponsored blinders off of your eyes... Peter Markavage wrote: *** The ARRL has recognized AM for years as still a valid mode of operation. ... They have a vintage AM station in operation. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't some knob-twisting touristing visitor take and put that rig out of commission? Why didn't someone from HQ put the AM Station 'back on the air'? (if took an avid AM'er to go there and make adjustments and/or repairs that no one at HQ seemed to know how, or desire to do.) Actions speak louder than words, Pete. The simple action of not repairing the AM station at Newington spoke volumes to me. -- 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] ARRL Great Lakes Director on IARU Bandplan
Todd, KA1KAQ wrote: The main difference is, you have faith and trust in the ARRL. I do not. Apparently most other hams feel the same. Otherwise the ARRL would count 80-90% of US hams as members, instead of 20% or so. count me as one who 'does not' have faith in the ARRL. Even in a democracy, majority rules. I do not believe that the ARRL holds the best of intentions for the whole of the Amateur community. -- 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] Halli HT37 Phasing Mod problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geoff, I seem to be getting very good carrier null but then the sidebands are not correctly spaced in frq. When in AM DSB mode the modulation is not symetrical and has af response issues. Everything aligns good up to the RF phase ballance adjustments where the variable C phase trimmer works but the Variable L trimmer has no effect. Looking at the related 12AT7s with socket extenders shows no change in the L side tube no matter how the trimmer is adjusted. I may not have these trimmers at the proper range but it's difficult to tell just what that is from the manual. It's near impossible right now for me to remove the box again and do component testing with major Rheumatoid Arthritus issues. You might have to get a neighborhood kid over, Bill, to help you with that. What it sounds like to me is, that the little coil has a broken wire either in the windings around the form, or at, or near the legs, if adjusting the coil makes no difference in audio phase. Break out the magnifying glass! Speaking of which, sometimes Harbor Freight (if you have one of those near-by) has a clamp-on, lit, magnifying glass for such delicate projects. Last time I saw one there, it was reasonably priced at around $20.oo (19.95+tax). Good luck! -- 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.
[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] 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] 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?
u***b( 266Feedback score is 100 to 499) Positive Feedback: 100% Item description: PERFECT NOS NIB MATCHING PAIR OF TUBES http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=200178274745 Bids on this item: 1 *30-Day Summary* Total bids: 360 Items bid on: 80 Bid activity (%) with this seller: 78% Bid retractions:0 Bid retractions (6 months): 2 Read the stats. 78% of this guys bids, are with -this- seller. Tells the story, eh? -- 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
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] Correct RS address
Mike Sawyer wrote: That works. Thanks Charlie. - Original Message - From: charles L. To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 3:54 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Correct RS address Try hamradiocenter.biz, without the www I had tried that, but the default resolution went to 'www.hamradiocenter.biz', even if I typed it in without the 'www'. *shrug* Could be they were working on the page, or there was a downed server, or a glitch in the path. It worked prior, didn't work, and couldn't ping it, couldn't even get a DNS to recognize the name, for a bit. Now it's working. Chalk it up to -more internet weirdness- -- 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] Correct RS address
Ellen Rugowski wrote: - Original Message - From: charles L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 2:54 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Correct RS address Try hamradiocenter.biz, without the www Charlie Cool! BTW Geoff, they still have the Nye Viking tuner. good kW tuner, for someone who wants to drop $160 on one. I've -two- 2kW tuners as it is. -- 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] IARU - VP ARRL contact by WD5BZO
David Knepper wrote: In all due respect, I keep wondering if any of these individuals who keep criticizing the ARRL actually are members. Members or not, what the Awful Racket Raising League does, affects -all- amateurs. ALL Amateurs, ARRL members or not, have a voice in this matter, as it affects us all. -- 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] IARU - VP ARRL contact by WD5BZO
David Knepper wrote: The climate has changed somewhat but we must join the ARRL to vote those out that do not represent us fairly and equitably. I see it differently. If the ARRL doesn't represent the wants and needs of the amateur community, as a whole, then the amateur community, as a whole, should drop their membership. Vote with your feet. -- 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] IARU - VP ARRL contact by WD5BZO
Mike Sawyer wrote: I see it differently. If the ARRL doesn't represent the wants and needs of the amateur community, as a whole, then the amateur community, as a whole, should drop their membership. Vote with your feet. Thats what I did Geoff, about ten years ago. Someone needs to convince the SSB'ers that this is going to affect them, as well as us. Let's get -all- amateurs to drop their ARRL membership, if only for a day (week) and send our so-called 'representatives' a little message... -- 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] AMers all old-timers?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to follow-up on the anonymous insulting email I received in reply to a message sent to ARRL officers... the header doesn't have any useful info. It was sent from one of the online email services which do not tell you much if anything about the sender. Even the 'on-line mail services' (webmail, to be more precise) have the originating IP address in their full headers. But, if it was sent, then forwarded, there's no way to get a hold of the original... -- 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] Boat Anchor Equipment
Rick Brashear wrote: The only fun left in Radio Shack is watching the expression on the sales associate's face when you ask for a 1K ohm, 10 watt, wire wound resistor! Hehehe... I wonder if those rigs sold? -- 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] Boat Anchor Equipment
Rick Brashear wrote: The only fun left in Radio Shack is watching the expression on the sales associate's face when you ask for a 1K ohm, 10 watt, wire wound resistor! Hehehe... Rick/K5IAR ...on the outside chnce they have a quick and dirty part I need. When I'm asked if I need help, I just say no thinks, since the sales associates usually don't have a clue about what Im looking for. I called up there, and all the old Boatanchor stuff was gone. There's a continuously updated (on tuesdays, Mark said) list at hamradiocenter.biz The only thing I'd be interested in (but probably wont get) is the Nye-Viking Tuner, for $159.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] Boat Anchor Equipment
Mike Sawyer wrote: Radio Shack... You got questions, we've got blank stares;) Apparently not in Derby, KS (near Wichita). http://hamradiocentral.biz is the website for the store, that is -also- a Radio Shack affiliate. I don't get anything from sending someone to their site, but you should go, just to stop the 'stereotypical' bashing of Radio Shack. Don't get me wrong - I -know- this is an 'isolated incident', where they actually might know -something- and give you an answer (which is more than a blank stare.) When you go in asking THESE guys for a 10uF cap @ 450vdc, they might actually know -something- about the part, and they -certainly- know about HF! Fuzzy/W5FZN (long time sk) said ya pays yer money, and ya takes yer chances! -- 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] Boat Anchor Equipment
Rick Brashear wrote: Cool, Geoff. However, the site didn't work right for me. Could you double check it? Well! Whatchaknowaboutthat? It -WAS- working... and, there's no 'www'... try typing in h t t p : / / h a m r a d i o c e n t r a l . b i z and see what ya get. HERE, I get nada... nuttin' zip, zilch, zero it's '404, man..' (aka: not found) But it WAS working... I was looking at tuners, and antenna rotators, and other used gear, like that NyeViking tuner, for $159.. dunno where the site went... storm related? http://sirocco.accuweather.com/nx_mosaic_640x480c/SIR/inmaSIRSC.gif That is right over you now, Rick (and you can HAVE it!) Might be a router down in Dallas... Fuzzy/W5FZN (long time sk) said ya pays yer money, and ya takes yer chances! -- Driving your AM Rig without a scope, is like driving your car at night, without headlights. (K4KYV) -- 73 = Best Regards, -Geoff/W5OMR __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
Re: [AMRadio] Boat Anchor Equipment
Jim Wilhite wrote: With IE 7 I just type in the address, hamradiocentral.biz and it will automatically find what you want, www or not. You might try that if you have trouble. I try to do as little M$ as possible, thankyouverymuch. -- 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.
