On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 18:48:39 GMT, Walter Maxwell wrote:

On 05 Jul 2004 14:18:23 GMT, oUsama (Yuri Blanarovich) wrote:


Congratulations, Yuri! Your DR1 looks great! It;s been evident from the
expertise displayed in your posts that you are a very knowledgeable guy, but
this revelation is icing on the cake--talk about surprise!.

I noticed that you moved from Canada to New Jersey in 1986. I lived in
central
Jersey, in Dayton near Princeton, for 31 years while with RCA, but I hadn't
heard of Pine Brook. Is it near Edison? I have been in Edison many times,
including visiting the Edison Museum during the 1950's.

I wish you the best with your new project, Yuri,

Walt, W 2DU


Hi Walt,
Thanks for kind words, coming especially from you. I enjoyed your Dayton
presentation and been learning from the balun/matching wars here on the NG (I
am trying to avoid them, keeping systems 50 ohms all the way :-)

I figured timing is right from my personal side and where the technology is and
going. Ambitious project, but I always was intrigued by "impossible" tasks,
have tackled few in my professional career, so I hope that this one will be
"just another one."

Actually, I am debating if antenna tuner should be included, or in higher class
of radio one should expect amplifier or tuned antennas to follow. It can always
be an option, they are getting small (our expected output is 100W) and should
fit inside.

The DR1 is my present to America and hams on 4th of July in thanks for
accepting this BUm in search of freedom.

Pine Brook is in Montville township, area where Morse and Vail pioneered the
telegraph stuff, next to Boonton (Instruments ex home), by intersections of Hwy
80 & 287, about 8 miles north of Morristown. There is still some of that spirit
floating around here.

God Bless America!
73 and thanks again!

Yuri, K3BU.us
www.computeradio.us home of Dream Radio One

Hi Yuri,

I don't know what happened. I composed a long response msg to you, and as I was
getting ready to send it the screen flipped to the next post below, the one from
Peter. I'm using Agen, and it's not very user friendly. I've searched Agent as
far as I can, but the msg is gone.

Trying to recap some of the original msg, I said I made a Dayton presentation in
either 1983 or 84. My only time at Dayton since then was in 2001 to kick off the
debut of Reflections 2, but I made no presentation then. Were you there in
either 1983 or 84, or could you have mistaken me for someone else at a later
time?

I lived in Dayton, NJ from 1949 to 1980, when I retired to DeLand, Florida. When
ragchewing on the air people asked where Dayton is. So I told them I live about
800 mi east of Hamvention Town.

I now live 6 mo in DeLand and 6 mo in my home town of Mt. Pleasant Michigan,
where I am now, a city of about 26,000 pop. There are more than a hundred hams
here now, but from 1933 (when I first became licensed) until 1939, I was the
only ham in the entire county.

I was telling you about two other items in the msg that got lost, but I can't
remember what the were--par for the course at 85, but pretty good that I
recalled the three items above, eh?

CUL, Walt