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February 25th 04, 12:06 AM

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(Brian Kelly) writes:

(N2EY) wrote in message
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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 . .

Whata re ya gonna do - call me names?

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".

Equipment trouble is par for the course on FD. Part of the game, like bad
weather and insects.

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.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

While we're at it, check out my "WAR!" post in another thread...

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.

Sure ya do. The line is drawn when you get on the air.

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.

The Type 4 can be seen on the HBR website.

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

Built me a digital dial back in 1975 from TTL. Work with almost any HF ham rx,
regardless of heterodyne scheme or VFO range. Worked with the Type 4 one day
and an S line the next.

This was *before* there were designs for similar units on the market or in the
big ham magazines. I still have it somewhere.

Found out after all that work that I preferred analog dials.

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"?

Sure. But the only advantage of those things is linearity.

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".

No, that's not phase noise. You don't hear phase noise directly that way.

Other pins they stuck in sacred balloons:

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

All you did was blow up some different sacred balloons.

73 de Jim, N2EY

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