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February 24th 04, 07:16 PM

PAMNO (N2EY) wrote in message ...
In article ,
(Brian Kelly) writes:

In a contest which is an order of magnitude tougher than SS never mind
silly FD. Radio picnic.

Maybe when *you* do it...

Go ahead, keep pushing yer luck . .

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.

Pretty lame excuse for an excuse Micollis.

I got it from you. You made how many QSOs last FD?

I had equipment FUBARS, I did not wimp out because I was afraid to
take on "your game".

The big Q bands were 40 and 15. Well over 100 mults on 10M sunspot
counts be damned.

Tells ya sumthin. But the Final Authority wannabes tell us nobody uses Morse
anymore...

Pfft . . ! Lotta BS, the reality is obvious.

Until ya add the "transverters" for 160, 60, 30, 17, 15, 12 and 10M
which the thing cannot get on now.

Don't need mosta those bands anyway.

Then comes the "modulator" and the
serial port which it doesn't have either

Don't need those either.

Take that line of rationalizations out to it's obvious limit and ya
don't "need" a ham license either.

And by the way Dave the dial in the thing is the rim of a plastic soup
bowl. Absolute truth, so help me.

Absolute lie. The Type 4 had a cereal bowl dial - but it was built more than 30
years ago. It was taken apart some time ago and its parts recycled.

Abject apologies, I got yer abominations mixed up. Where did you get
the digital display for the S8?

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

Ya obviously got screwed.

Better'n some lame 5 to 1 slippy balldrive thing. Swords into plowshares,
anyway.

Ever hear the terms "shaft encoder" or "PTO"?

Hell no, but you still have a 1920s style "VFO" and the rest of us do
not.

Simple yet effective. Did someone say "phase noise"?

Glad you brought that up. One of my objectives over the weekend was to
sniff out a whole list of ponderments I had on these sorts of topics.
Phase noise: Close to the end of the 'test on 40M the amp T/R relay
hung a couple times and I got to listen to the MP sans antenna. If the
weak hiss was in fact phase noise it was probably 20 dB. down from the
base QRN noise level in the band. Lesson: Given a decent radio phase
noise is never going to be the limiting factor in weak signal
reception anywhere around where thee or me live so fugeddit, yer VFO
is not a "solution" for some "phase noise problem".

Other pins they stuck in sacred balloons:

They don't use QSK, PTT works just fine.
The AGC is always ON.

73 de Jim, N2EY

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