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October 3rd 04, 07:57 PM

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(Brian Kelly) writes:

(Len Over 21) wrote in message
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In article ,

(Brian Kelly) writes:

. . . some of those "works of art" before I dumstered all that
old crap. I have a yen now to build a couple more widgets using
homebrewed PCBs but so far I have not been able to find the board
stock or chemicals in hobby quantities.

Go to FAR Circuits for a huge collection of PCBs available for
all those magazine article projects. Ready-made wiring. FAR
is run by a ham.

I'm aware of FAR and the boards they offer, nice stuff, quite
affordable and they can save a lot of drudgery. But I'd still like to
burn a few of my own from scratch just for the helluvait.

Don't keep old "crap." Save that to toss at NCTAs in
newsgroups.

snore

The 74192 and other TTL family chips were hot stuff 30 years ago when
I was doing that project. You can still get pin-compatible parts
today.

I fed the aformentioned dumpster a *shoebox* full of those old 7400
series chips . . .

Tsk. Well, if you don't know how to use them, toss 'em.

Nah. Just about everything radio in that heap which was more than
twenty years old landed in the dumpster on general principles.

Riiiight...Millen dials, J.W.Miller coil forms, Hammarlund
variables, WW2 surplus items, tubes...all "over twenty years
old!" :-)

You are PCTA extra royalty. Save the TUBES, recycle 'em into
world-beating contest-quality radios to win all those accolades!

I already gave 'em to Miccolis, ALL of 'em. 'Cept for the NOS Eimac
3-500Z. I'll prolly make a lamp out of it.

Do you have sufficient knowledge of electricity to wire it up?

Don't you have to be QUALIFIED to meet the electrical code?

That leaves Sweetums and his half-vast "experience" out. Long-haul
military HF comms are channelized and if a station is weak they just
twist the Variac clockwise. 40kW with rhombics just to push RTTY from
Tokyo to the west coast . . SPARE me . . !

You "know" all about military communications?

Absolutely not. Nor do I give a rat's patooie about military comms
gear.

Riiiight...but you KNOW all about what the U.S. military DOES,
don't you? [you've demonstrated that in here before...]

Of course you do.
You were of the royalty that was never IN.

Right again.

That military service was for "drudge" citizens, not for the nobility
whose bodies were far too precious to waste defending their
country... tsk, tsk.

You've never worn an AN/PRC-104 HF manpack raddio, have you?

Have you?

Yes, as a civilian!

on the SGC 2020...

I hate to bust yer bubble again Sweetums but they're all over the ham
bands used mostly by the "pack radio" crowd. Nice rugged little
minimalist's xcvr but somewhat lacking in rcvr basic performance.

Awwww...not up to Kellie's mighty standards? Tsk.

Are you in the tRoll opinion against the "shack on the belt crowd?"

"Minimalist?" It does SSB very well. It includes a lot of self-
check features as standard.

Maybe you want a "top of the line contester" transceiver that not
only has all the super selectivity and sensitivity to leap tall pileups
but also keeps the logs and prints out QSLs? All on battery power?
:-)

That's why Phil Smith came up with the Smith Chart back before
WW2. :-)

Not for designing antennas...for easing the work required by
Bell Telephone on long-distance transmission lines. Work that
required slide-rules and mechanical desk calculators (sometimes)
due to pocket calculators not being invented yet. :-)

I'm not new to slide rules and Fridens Sweetie, I had one of each on
my board back when I was designing catapults.

Riiiiight...lots of catapults used in ham radio of your yesterday,
huh? :-)

Tsk. You should use Roy Lewallen's EZNEC. Roy is a long-time
ham. EZNEC is advertised in QST.

Sweetums if you will kindly point out just where in EZNEC Roy provides
the ability to work thru antenna stress and deflection issues.

Ask Roy. I thought that YOU, as the super-duper mechanical man
would ALREADY KNOW what is needed! :-)

USN Postgraduate School folks came up with the Numerical
Electromagnetic Code (NEC) which is all free to anyone (no
copyright).

I'm not new to NEC either Sweetums, I have NEC2 two mouse clicks away
from here along with it's Nec Win Plus interface.

Riiiiiight...You are so schmardt in methods of moments theory...

Too bad the USN types at the "captain's table"
didn't mention that to you...

. . . in 1963??

Tsk. Didn't the USN use radio then?

Oh, yes, they used only morse code! Morse code gets through
when anything else does...

What DID you talk about? How "rough" the "war" was? Did YOU
have some "hostile actions" and collect a shoebox full of medals?

Oh, I AM sorry. I'm acting like a "drudge." I'm not supposed to
DO such things, being an NCTA and all. This newsgroup is
RESERVED for the PCTA extras, the elitists who meet to beat.