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February 25th 04, 07:31 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 . .

Whata re ya gonna do - call me names?

Nah, I have a much more appropriate plan in mind . .

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.

Uh . . yeah . . been there too . . point please?

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.

No, we're talking about "repackaging" yer poor lame Southgate 8
contraption into an xcvr which would sell in 2004. Does not require a
ham license to do that but does require more than just three lousy
bands out of ten and more than only one hundred year old mode.

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.

Ya hung an S20 Sky Champion german silver dial on yer K2 did ya?

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.

Bwaaahaha! As if!

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.

If phase noise doesn't manifest itself as crud that's all that matters
vs. a VFO. You want I should hang a spectrum analyzer on the
oscillators during a dx contest or what?

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.

.. . . nah, we been here before, same old sacred balloons . . heh heh .
..

73 de Jim, N2EY

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