Hi John,
I checked my Radio Parts Master catalogue for 1964, as well as the catalogue
sections of the 1948 1940 ARRL RADIO AMATEUR'S HANDBOOK --- nothing, nil,
zilch, nada...
I wonder if that part number is really a National number, per se...? Perhaps
it's the part number of the MANUFACTURER
Hi Thomas,
Here's another neat site re. propagation, the grey line, etc. etc. etc., in
case you haven't seen it:
http://dx.qsl.net/propagation/propagation.html
Enjoy!
~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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- Original Message -
From: Thomas F. Giella
Hi Jim,
Those part numbers you quoted --- as well as the general shape of the
tower --- sound an awful like parts of am old Delhi Antenna Towers-brand
tower that I've had for some 27 years here...!
Indeed, I use one to elevate my Hy-Gain TH3 Mk 3 yagi: 48', self-supporting,
with a taper from
On 7th October, Don wrote:
...Note the heading: In the Matter of Deregulation of Part 97...
*
Yowzers...!!!
Isn't ...deregulation the main cause of most of Wall Street's current
woes...?
Be afraid, kids --- be VERY afraid! Hi Hi
~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
On 19th July, Bob wrote:
...Still being fairly new what are the most active bands in the summer on
AM?
*
Hi Bob,
Probably THE most active band 'round THESE parts on AM in the summer is THE
BEACH BOYS (n'yuk-n'yuk-n'yuk!)...Hi Hi.
~73~ Eddy VE3CUI -
On 19th July, Bob wrote:
...You do realize just how much you have dated yourself? :-) I miss true
BC AM radio. Cousin Brucie, HOA, Dan Ingram on WABC. Jones
beach... sigh...
*
Hi Bob,
Well, if I have dated myself, I wear it as a badge of honour...honestly!
Hi Guys,
It just totally escapes me why a Ham would dole out $$$ for the BIGGEST
investment in his life, i.e. a house, and then whine about existing
covenants against antennas...
Doesn't it make supreme sense to check things out first, BEFORE signing on
the dotted line...? (HINT: think of the
Hi Larry,
Did you happen to notice the actual DATE of that announcement...?
It was 3-10-2006, and NOT 2008.
Someone had better mail Lou an up-to-date calendar! Hi Hi
~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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- Original Message -
From: Larry Szendrei
On 24th April, Kim wrote:
...P.S.: You want some real fun? Organize an AM-only contest!
*
Kim,
It's odd that you should mention this point...
Back in the early 90's, when I was still a stalwart ARRL member, I
petitioned the League --- by way of letters
Hi Pete,
The ARRL 160-meter contest in December is a CW only event...I've operated in
it, off on, since about 1974-75, or so.
~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
- Original Message -
From: Peter Markavage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: amradio@mailman.qth.net
Hi Paul et al,
Yes, the argument that if you're ...not part of the solution, then you're
part of the problem simply does not wash with me, either...
I honestly HAVE tried to engage the folks in Newington in the matter of
League policy on several occasions, before ultimately letting my membership
Hi Bob,
Write them via hardcopy snail mail, instead...
It works better, in that it can't be simply deleted at the stroke of a key,
eventually it ends up on SOMEONE'S desk (I was once told this by a
national health care insurer, who followed-up on my paper letter with a
direct phone call to me.
Hi Mark,
Well spoken...
I once had to replace the MRF-422(?) RF power output transistors in my
FT-980 here...for what I paid for these wonderful, low-voltage, SAFE
solidstate devices, I could have purchased a LOT of 12BY7's 6146's...!
Some of these god-sent transistors cost more --- and are a
Hi Joe,
I echo those sentiments here...
QST ceased to be desirable (never-mind collectable!) when the geniuses in
Connecticut decided to gut the magazine by publishing THE NATIONAL CONTEST
JOURNAL, and QEX, right alongside it.
What'd that do to QST...? It became a mere shadow of its former,
Hi Guys,
You'd think that with the graying of the Amateur Radio ranks, there'd be
room enough to embrace any and EVERY devotee of the hobby, rather than try
to cut them from the ranks...
I know what I'm talking about: I just came home from what is supposed to be
the BIGGEST Hamfest in
Good Day All,
I'm always on the prowl for HC-6/U crystals (HIGHER than 12.6-MHz) that I might
be able to use to expand the SWL'ing capabilities of my Drake R-4 receiver
here...
I have many frequencies that are surplus to my needs, NOT ALL of them within
Ham bands, as such. Perhaps you'd like
Hi Dave,
Ice is those clear, hard, chunky cold things that float in your glass
whenever you order-up a cocktail at your favourite drinking establishent...
Oh yes, it's also something that the Phoenix Coyotes skate on (I'll
explain later), but on a much larger scale.
It's sort of a Canadian
Hi JT,
This may not exactly fit the specifics of your needs or requirements, but
for my money, one of THE best tube-type receivers (and it was designed
built near the zenith of the vacuum tube era) is the R-4 series from
Drake...
They are still readily available, AND at good prices ---
Hi Geoff,
It sure does pay to read ...the fine print, n'est ce pas...? Hi Hi
~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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- Original Message -
From: Geoff/W5OMR [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service
amradio@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Monday,
Hi John,
The SB-610 has been an absolutely invaluable aid here at my stations, in
both the CW and voice modes (AM, as well as SSB)...
All I do when monitoring 'phone transmissions here is to place the 'scope
into a trapezoidal pattern.
I adjust the vertical gain such that a carrier makes the
Hi Mark,
OK, I'll bite...just where, exactly, was this Ham Radio Xanadu, anyway...?!
~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
*
- Original Message -
From: Mark Foltarz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: amradio@mailman.qth.net; amradio@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sunday, February 10,
Hi Guys,
I use RG-6 cable here EXCLUSIVELY with my 160-meter 3-element phased
triangular inverted L arrray --- the 135-degree phasing harnesses, the
individual feeders, THE WORKS!
...AND I run a kilowatt input here, too.
No problems thus far, and I honestly believe that at this low a
Good Day All,
My Elmer neither stood on two legs, nor took a single breath of life in the
conventional sense --- and yet, he was as much alive and inspiring as any
conventional Elmer...to me at any rate...
Elmer here was my very first SW receiver: a beat-up, 3rd hand, $40.00
Hallicrafters S-77A,
Hi Guys,
I agree 101% with all of the positive sentiments re. the Viking II --- it
looks good, sounds great (with a minimum of fuss in the mods dept.), and
is really quite easy to work on, IF you don't mind the weight...!
Mine is the rather unique rare Canadian version, built for the Royal
Hi Guys,
Canada is nothing BUT a nation of ex-pats as it is...! I know --- my parents
were part of the great wave of immigration from Europe that swept into the
country in the years after WW2.
Have you ever heard of the expression DP...? Well, that was about as vile
a name as the n word is
Good luck, Don...!
All the wheeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth in Canada when this took
place here a coupla years ago accomplished absolutely zip, zilch, nada...
That's why I'm effectively out of business now, and why eBay keeps coming up
with Canadian promotions on a regular basis, to get
Hi Don,
You HAVE to be a dyed-in-the-wool contestor to really ...get the whole
notion, I s'pose...!
In the final summation, individual signal reports mean zip / zero / nada,
when you get upwards of 2-3+ QSOs per minute...
~73!~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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- Original
Hi Rick,
Not to belabour the point, but a serious contestor just has no time for the
proverbial ...old buzzard transmission typical of AM operations...besides,
he's just plain, NOT interested: he wants to maximize his QSO total, final
score. Period.
He KNOWS he sounds good, when he's racked-up
Well, here's my $0.02 worth...!
Receivers at VE3CUI - VE3XZ:
- 1944 RCA AR-88LF (WITH an S-meter);
-Late 60's/early 70's Heathkit SB-301 (WITH optional 6- and 2-meter
converters);
-Early 50's Hallicrafters S-77A;
-Homebrewed 4-tube 1929-style regenerative (227's, 224A's, 245, et al);
Hi Barrie,
What's your take on the SX-88 receiver...?
They sure do look attractive enough, but man oh man, do they ever command
the big bucks come re-sale time!
Is it as good as the dollars it attracts, or is there some kind of mystique
/ aura surrounding that rig? I sure am curious...
That
...Hey, now THERE'S a good spin on this thread: personal opinions re.
what's wrong with classic rigs, per first-hand experience. If anyone
wants me to start with my stable, I'd be more than happy to do so! Hi Hi
***
Oh what the heck, I'll start this thing off...it might
Hi Guys,
I can recall seeing one for sale in the want ads of the very first issue of
ELECTRIC RADIO magazine here, going back some 17-plus years ago...
Asking price was around $300.00 - $350.00...!
What hath time wrought...?! Hi Hi
~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
**
-
Hi Todd,
Yesterday I had the dubious pleasure(?) of visiting the ...big smoke here
that calls itself Toronto --- right in the bowels of the city, downtown...
I don't know if it was accrued carelessness on the part of the big city
delivery guy that my wife I just happened to see, or something
Hi Don,
The original stuff is probably some latent carcinogenic concoction anyway,
and best stayed away from (heck, what ISN'T a carcinogen anymore,
anyway...?! Hi Hi).
Back in ...ye olden golden daze, I seem to recall reading on the
instruction label for Lepage's-brand epoxy glue that if one is
On 22nd August, Don wrote...
...One of the few exceptions to the above, but by far the most prominent,
lies within the AM community, where genuine amateur radio lives on as both
a technically oriented hobby and an art form.
**
Well put, Don --- congratulations on
Hi All,
You know, whenever non-Ham friends ask me how it is that I'm able to
understand other Hams in places as far-flung as Mongolia Serbia, I tell
them the truth: it's really quite simple, because we all speak the universal
language of ENGLISH.
It's no different, I tell them, than the world
Hi Bry,
FedEx may good for domestic shipments, i.e. U.S.A.-to-U.S.A., but for
INTERNATIONAL deliveries --- like the U.S.A. to Canada --- FORGET it!
Like all of the other commercials, they have the very ODIOUS habit of
charging us a MINIMUM $25.00 ...brokerage fee on everything they might
carry
I'll second that motion...!
~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
- Original Message -
From: A.R.S. - W5AMI [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service
amradio@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Re: [ForSale-Swap] FS: SX-115,
Hi Larry,
I don't know what you've been reading or hearing about us there lately, but
up here we manage to pay for everything ourselves...!
NO NEED to confiscate the property of others to pay for health care at
all --- NOT when you get taxed 33% of your income right off the bat before
you even
What the heck is going on with our neighbours south of the 49th
Parallel...?!
You've seemingly got a licensing body populated by little-more than
did-interested, beaurocratic, career-oriented mandarins, headed-up by
politically correct toadies of big money big bu$ine$$...your largest lobby
group
Note To Jim (W5JO)...
Jim, everytime I try to e-mail you a direct response, it bounces back to me
with an error message...
Have you changed your address recently...?
~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
- Original Message -
From: Jim Wilhite [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion of AM Radio in the
Hi Guys,
I haven't really been following this thread all that closely, but has any
mention been made yet about the fact that the MAXIMUM amount of RF output
carrier that one can safely extract from a linear amplifier tube in AM mode
is equal to ONE HALF of the tube's plate dissipation...?
Ex. an
Hi Rick,
I had a 122 VFO with that same issue --- I simply bent a short piece of
enamelled wire roughly into the shape of the clip, placed into the
fibre/bakelite extenion...
It's still there, doing its thing...
~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
- Original Message -
From: Rick Brashear [EMAIL
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