(Len Over 21) wrote in message ...
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(Brian Kelly) writes:


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!" :-)

Right on Sweetums, I did exactly that. Except for a bunch of elderly
variable caps which are always nice to have around when cobbling
together matching circuits.

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?

Yup.

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

Of course, the NEC is only a couple mouse clicks away from here.

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...]

Cite the posts.

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.

| Yawn |

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

Have you?

Yes, as a civilian!

Aha; I thought so, you're a member of the Smoggy Bottom Militia eh?

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.

You bet. Crummy rcvr. Dig up the test lab reports on it. Like this
one.

http://www.arrl.org/members-only/prodrev/pdf/pr9810.pdf


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

Nope.

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

I can check my own radios Sweetums, but you better stick with SGC.

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?

Right on again Sweetums, you're finally starting to get it.

All on battery power?
:-)

Whatta a great battery-powered rig: Draws over a half amp while simply
listening to a dummy load.


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? :-)

Well no, fact is Sweetums that I have a very current tech ham radio
catapult, Miccolis and I used it to launch some Field Day antennas
just a few months ago. He has one of a different design which also
works well.


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! :-)

I sure as hell do know what's needed and I also know it's not in EZNEC
Sweetums, not even close. But you obviously don't know so you made an
ass of yourself in public once again because you didn't spend enough
time surfing around the Web to get up to speed on EZNEC before you
spouted off about it.

How many times . . ?


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...

Eat your heart out.

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 stop it you silly old fart, of course they used radio. Knock off
your bush-league bait 'n switch games Sweetie, they don't work, the
topic was the electromagnetics code, not "USN radio" Sweetie. Now once
more was the NEC available in 1963 or not?

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.

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