Re: [AMRadio] I need som advice
Jim Wilhite wrote: Boy my ears are pinned back on this one. I need a 10 inch speaker for my old HQ 129 speaker. Jim - take a look around Parts Express: http://www.parts-express.com/home.cfm Problem is, nowadays anything in the 10 range is likely to be a woofer or sub-woofer that's meant to be used as part of a 2 or 3-way system and what you want is a good old-fashioned full range speaker, which is proving to be harder to find than I thought it would be. But here's a low-cost 10: that I think I'd be willing to try: http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=290-262 While the frequency response of this $17 woofer is given as 74-5000 hz, it might sound pretty good. If you wanted more highs, you could try the approach used by Jensen and others who used to make full-range speakers by suspending a smaller PM speaker across the cone with a simple series capacitor crossover to handle the midrange frequencies. 73, Bob W9RAN __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [AMRadio] I need som advice
That 290-262 looks like a nice deal Bob, I may have to get a couple for replacements in some stuff around here. John, WA5BXO -Original Message- From: amradio-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:amradio-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Robert Nickels Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 7:17 PM To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service Subject: Re: [AMRadio] I need som advice http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=290-262 While the frequency response of this $17 woofer is given as 74-5000 hz, it might sound pretty good. If you wanted more highs, you could try the approach used by Jensen and others who used to make full-range speakers by suspending a smaller PM speaker across the cone with a simple series capacitor crossover to handle the midrange frequencies. 73, Bob W9RAN __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [AMRadio] I need som advice
Look at the speaker ads in Part Express, and other sites, that refer to speakers as speaker drivers. They generally have the classic wide range speaker response as in thegood of days when we went to the local stores to buy a replacement speaker. Pete, wa2cwa On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:16:49 -0500 Robert Nickels ranic...@comcast.net writes: Jim Wilhite wrote: Boy my ears are pinned back on this one. I need a 10 inch speaker for my old HQ 129 speaker. Jim - take a look around Parts Express: http://www.parts-express.com/home.cfm Problem is, nowadays anything in the 10 range is likely to be a woofer or sub-woofer that's meant to be used as part of a 2 or 3-way system and what you want is a good old-fashioned full range speaker, which is proving to be harder to find than I thought it would be. But here's a low-cost 10: that I think I'd be willing to try: http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=290-262 While the frequency response of this $17 woofer is given as 74-5000 hz, it might sound pretty good. If you wanted more highs, you could try the approach used by Jensen and others who used to make full-range speakers by suspending a smaller PM speaker across the cone with a simple series capacitor crossover to handle the midrange frequencies. 73, Bob W9RAN __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [AMRadio] I need som advice
Along that line Pete, a friend sent me a replacement (Thanks Friend) that is new. I checked it with my audio oscillator and I could hear it work from ~80 cycles up to over 5K. It will sound a bit better than the original provided the transmitting station has good audio. I was taken by surprise on this one.. Good advice. Jim/W5JO - Original Message - Look at the speaker ads in Part Express, and other sites, that refer to speakers as speaker drivers. They generally have the classic wide range speaker response as in thegood of days when we went to the local stores to buy a replacement speaker. Pete, wa2cwa __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [AMRadio] I need som advice
I picked up one of Bob's 8 speakers and it sounds great on my HQ-140X. I'm no expert, but I have been in broadcasting/audio recording, etc. for over 35 years and I have heard my share of speakers and this one satisfies my requirements just fine. No complaints here. 73 de Dan -- WAØJRD .. Along that line Pete, a friend sent me a replacement (Thanks Friend) that is new. I checked it with my audio oscillator and I could hear it work from ~80 cycles up to over 5K. It will sound a bit better than the original provided the transmitting station has good audio. I was taken by surprise on this one.. Good advice. Jim/W5JO __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [AMRadio] I need som advice
Jim, Try here: JUDITH FULKERSON/OXFORD, MICHIGAN CALL: 248 628-5051 FAX: 248 628-8983 E-MAIL: jblj...@charter.net ADDRESS: 2711 W. DRAHNER, OXFORD, MI REPAIRS/REBUILDS SPEAKER CONES AND REPLACES FOAM SUSPENSION FOR MOST MAKES AND MODELS. I have no financial interests whatsoever! She has been pointed out on a couple other lists. Bob - N0DGN Jim Wilhite wrote: Boy my ears are pinned back on this one. I need a 10 inch speaker for my old HQ 129 speaker. The cone in the present one is just about gone. So I thought about shellac and toilet paper or something similar, but am not that good with my hands. So I looked a couple of places on the web. I haven't looked for a speaker since about 1959, and needless to say, one like I would like to have is nearly $100. Now am I crazy or is this high? All I would like to have is a round, mid-range speaker that is 10 inches in diameter which won't require I sell my home to buy. Can any one steer me to a place other than what I find on the search engines. The first 10 pages or so is all full of speaker sellers who pay to be listed and list only stuff the audio nut would buy. Jeeze! Jim/W5JO __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [AMRadio] I need som advice (Jim Wilhite)
The re-cone option isn't as expensive as you may think. I had a nice pair of JBL L-100's that I got from Dennis, W7QHO when he moved away from Maryland. Both the foam speaker surrounds were shot, as were the dust covers on the speaker coils. A place in Pennsylvania re-did them both for $60. Even if today it's $100, that's for TWO speakers and within your price range for the single. email me off-list and I'll put you in touch paul __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [AMRadio] I need som advice
Jim, Try here: JUDITH FULKERSON/OXFORD, MICHIGAN CALL: 248 628-5051 FAX: 248 628-8983 E-MAIL: jblj...@charter.net ADDRESS: 2711 W. DRAHNER, OXFORD, MI REPAIRS/REBUILDS SPEAKER CONES AND REPLACES FOAM SUSPENSION FOR MOST MAKES AND MODELS. I have no financial interests whatsoever! She has been pointed out on a couple other lists. Bob - N0DGN Jim Wilhite wrote: Boy my ears are pinned back on this one. I need a 10 inch speaker for my old HQ 129 speaker. The cone in the present one is just about gone. So I thought about shellac and toilet paper or something similar, but am not that good with my hands. So I looked a couple of places on the web. I haven't looked for a speaker since about 1959, and needless to say, one like I would like to have is nearly $100. Now am I crazy or is this high? All I would like to have is a round, mid-range speaker that is 10 inches in diameter which won't require I sell my home to buy. Can any one steer me to a place other than what I find on the search engines. The first 10 pages or so is all full of speaker sellers who pay to be listed and list only stuff the audio nut would buy. Jeeze! Jim/W5JO __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- +--+ | AM Amateur Radio OperatorNØDGN | +--+ | http://home.comcast.net/~rbethman/ | +--+ | Bob Bethman\\\|/// The absence of a danger | | \\ ~ ~ // signal does *NOT* mean | | rbeth...@comcast.net (/ @ @ /) that everything is OK | +--o00o---°(_)°---o00o-+ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [AMRadio] I need som advice
Jim, Try here: JUDITH FULKERSON/OXFORD, MICHIGAN CALL: 248 628-5051 FAX: 248 628-8983 E-MAIL: jblj...@charter.net ADDRESS: 2711 W. DRAHNER, OXFORD, MI REPAIRS/REBUILDS SPEAKER CONES AND REPLACES FOAM SUSPENSION FOR MOST MAKES AND MODELS. I have no financial interests whatsoever! She has been pointed out on a couple other lists. Bob - N0DGN Jim Wilhite wrote: Boy my ears are pinned back on this one. I need a 10 inch speaker for my old HQ 129 speaker. The cone in the present one is just about gone. So I thought about shellac and toilet paper or something similar, but am not that good with my hands. So I looked a couple of places on the web. I haven't looked for a speaker since about 1959, and needless to say, one like I would like to have is nearly $100. Now am I crazy or is this high? All I would like to have is a round, mid-range speaker that is 10 inches in diameter which won't require I sell my home to buy. Can any one steer me to a place other than what I find on the search engines. The first 10 pages or so is all full of speaker sellers who pay to be listed and list only stuff the audio nut would buy. Jeeze! Jim/W5JO __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- +--+ | AM Amateur Radio OperatorNØDGN | +--+ | http://home.comcast.net/~rbethman/ | +--+ | Bob Bethman\\\|/// The absence of a danger | | \\ ~ ~ // signal does *NOT* mean | | rbeth...@comcast.net (/ @ @ /) that everything is OK | +--o00o---°(_)°---o00o-+ __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
[AMRadio] I need som advice
Boy my ears are pinned back on this one. I need a 10 inch speaker for my old HQ 129 speaker. The cone in the present one is just about gone. So I thought about shellac and toilet paper or something similar, but am not that good with my hands. So I looked a couple of places on the web. I haven't looked for a speaker since about 1959, and needless to say, one like I would like to have is nearly $100. Now am I crazy or is this high? All I would like to have is a round, mid-range speaker that is 10 inches in diameter which won't require I sell my home to buy. Can any one steer me to a place other than what I find on the search engines. The first 10 pages or so is all full of speaker sellers who pay to be listed and list only stuff the audio nut would buy. Jeeze! Jim/W5JO __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [AMRadio] I need som advice
Hi Jim, Go to Google and do a search on speaker reconing. A whole bunch of places come up. Just a suggestion. 73 Larry WA9VRH - Original Message - From: Jim Wilhite w...@brightok.net To: AM Radio Discussion List amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 4:46 PM Subject: [AMRadio] I need som advice Boy my ears are pinned back on this one. I need a 10 inch speaker for my old HQ 129 speaker. The cone in the present one is just about gone. So I thought about shellac and toilet paper or something similar, but am not that good with my hands. So I looked a couple of places on the web. I haven't looked for a speaker since about 1959, and needless to say, one like I would like to have is nearly $100. Now am I crazy or is this high? All I would like to have is a round, mid-range speaker that is 10 inches in diameter which won't require I sell my home to buy. Can any one steer me to a place other than what I find on the search engines. The first 10 pages or so is all full of speaker sellers who pay to be listed and list only stuff the audio nut would buy. Jeeze! Jim/W5JO __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [AMRadio] I need som advice
That thought crossed my mind Larry, but I always thought the price of reconing would be more than replacement cost. Now I wonder and if I don't find anything, I will look around for someone that recones. Thanks for the suggestion Jim/W5JO - Original Message - Hi Jim, Go to Google and do a search on speaker reconing. A whole bunch of places come up. Just a suggestion. 73 Larry WA9VRH __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [AMRadio] I need som advice
Hi Jim, I bet you get some good suggestions from the group on replacements and reconing! Good luck I will be watching as I have a few that I need to replace or recone. 73 Larry - Original Message - From: Jim Wilhite w...@brightok.net To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service amradio@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 4:57 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] I need som advice That thought crossed my mind Larry, but I always thought the price of reconing would be more than replacement cost. Now I wonder and if I don't find anything, I will look around for someone that recones. Thanks for the suggestion Jim/W5JO - Original Message - Hi Jim, Go to Google and do a search on speaker reconing. A whole bunch of places come up. Just a suggestion. 73 Larry WA9VRH __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [AMRadio] I need som advice
Hey Jim, ya might look at ceiling speakers to mount in the original enclosure. Even if smaller driver the ceiling mount may make up the diff and some of the modern speakers sound real good. Everything today is for a lot of power, as in guitar amps, that is what drives the price up. You can't just buy a 10 watt 10 inch speaker any more or they seem to be hard to find anyway. 73, John, WA5BXO __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [AMRadio] I need som advice
To bad not 8 inch Jim... You know that I have thousands of those but we do not have a 10 or 15... 4,6,8 is all that we have... Bob W1PE -Original Message- From: amradio-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:amradio-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Wilhite Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 4:46 PM To: AM Radio Discussion List Subject: [AMRadio] I need som advice Boy my ears are pinned back on this one. I need a 10 inch speaker for my old HQ 129 speaker. The cone in the present one is just about gone. So I thought about shellac and toilet paper or something similar, but am not that good with my hands. So I looked a couple of places on the web. I haven't looked for a speaker since about 1959, and needless to say, one like I would like to have is nearly $100. Now am I crazy or is this high? All I would like to have is a round, mid-range speaker that is 10 inches in diameter which won't require I sell my home to buy. Can any one steer me to a place other than what I find on the search engines. The first 10 pages or so is all full of speaker sellers who pay to be listed and list only stuff the audio nut would buy. Jeeze! Jim/W5JO __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amra...@mailman.qth.ne t/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [AMRadio] I need som advice
I've bought a number of replacement speakers from Parts Express over the years. http://www.parts-express.com/home.cfm Just recently got a pair of woofers for my old Lafayette stereo speaker enclosures. Pete, wa2cwa On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:46:15 -0500 Jim Wilhite w...@brightok.net writes: Boy my ears are pinned back on this one. I need a 10 inch speaker for my old HQ 129 speaker. The cone in the present one is just about gone. So I thought about shellac and toilet paper or something similar, but am not that good with my hands. So I looked a couple of places on the web. I haven't looked for a speaker since about 1959, and needless to say, one like I would like to have is nearly $100. Now am I crazy or is this high? All I would like to have is a round, mid-range speaker that is 10 inches in diameter which won't require I sell my home to buy. Can any one steer me to a place other than what I find on the search engines. The first 10 pages or so is all full of speaker sellers who pay to be listed and list only stuff the audio nut would buy. Jeeze! Jim/W5JO __ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
