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February 22nd 04, 03:10 AM

In article ,
(Brian Kelly) writes:

(N2EY) wrote in message
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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.

"Fire in the hole!"

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.

HAW!

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.

How'd you know she was one of my favorites?

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?

About 300 in SS, in a half-hearted effort.

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

Sure - with ten times the power and big antennas, in a contest twice as long as
SS or FD.
With all the comforts of home and a spotting net......

And you . . ?

DX isn't my bag. Domestic contests are. One of the Barracuda Rules is that you
don't
try to beat the other guy at his game, you get him to play your game.

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

SPARE us!

How many you put in the log for 'RS?

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.

Twice over.

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?

Better at mechanical dials.

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.

You betcha, cost me maybe $5 for the whole VFO assembly. Including spares.

And here all us no-clues been
using these synthesizer thingeys, tsk, tsk, shame on us.

You had a synthesizer in 1972?

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.

Exactly. I have each one's functions memorized. Plus they are ergonomically
designed. No fatigue after hours of use.

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.

Count the pins and let me know, I have both. Plus the hoods and the clamps and
more line cords than I can remember. 2 wire, 3 wire, whatever.

Just as long as they're not the oddball 9 pin ones that EFJ used. Those things
are so rare that some owners have actually hacked into and modified their
Johnsons to mate with less unusual devices.

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.

Not at all. The Adventurer doesn't work 'phone, the Vikings (I had 2) went to a
ham pal, and the Valiant went to an AMer.

The one Viking 2 was used to make my one-and-only 160 QSO. But that's another
story....

73 de Jim, N2EY