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February 21st 04, 04:32 PM

(N2EY) wrote in message ...
In article , Dave Heil
writes:

I have a half side of beef in the freezer, your choice of beverage, a
comfy guest room and plenty of radio gear.

I'll bring the hot sauce. They don't call it "Total Insanity" for nothing.

That's why you get the back deck.

If you talk 'EY into coming,
you guys can fight to see who gets the futon in the shack overflow room.

I got an air mattress for travel....

No thanks, I'd rather travel in my car.

I see it in a National 60's blue wrinkle cabinet with satin stainless
panel. There'd be no miniaturization with plenty of room for mods.

Miniature is for poodles.

Yeah, like Audrey Hepburn.

Jim's obvious genius being that he's managed to come up with a 100W
80/40/20 CW xcvr which is spread across two whole shelves.

Anybody can make 'em small. I make 'em GOOD.

How many FD QSOs you make so far with the little stuff? The Type 7 did 629 one
year....

How many did it make last year?

My Type 75A4/T4XB did 1,000-1,200 several times in the CQ WW CW. And
you . . ?

"Anybody who says size doesn't matter never had a really big one".

SPARE us!

I understand, now that you've 'splained it to me. We could use a
four-foot rack, turned on its side. That's going to be one expensive
stainless panel.

Fits in a two-footer vertically with room to spare.....

There ya go Dave, the four foot rack will work.

My HRO is the mechanical marvel but for performance,

Nice old boat anchors, great dial mechanisms.

Ugh. Ten turns to cover the band? Puhleeze, I did better in high school.

Better at what?

The Type 7 uses a cap from a junked BC-221. The Type 6 and 5 used caps from
ARC-5 transmitters.

Dayum, another N2EY stroke of genius. And here all us no-clues been
using these synthesizer thingeys, tsk, tsk, shame on us.

I copied one feature from RME: they didn't label much on the panel. They said
if you didn't know what the knobs did you shouldn't be using the set.

Anybody who doesn't know what knobs are for is a sick pup.

THAT's the one Collins rcvr I'd love to have. I have a meatball S3-B
but I'm gonna dump it. Needs a power cord. Which is a minor pain in
the butt job, need to dredge up a chassis plug.

Talk to me!

I probably have a plug that will work. And a line cord. Etc.

The cord is a no-brainer, it's the female 8 or 11 pin plug or whatever
it is which is problem.

Got rid of all my Johnson gear, though (sniff). Adventurer, Viking 2 with 122,
Valiant.

Good riddance, they're probably doing splendidly on 27 Mhz by now.

73 de Jim, N2EY

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