RadioBanter - View Single Post - Scorecard on WT Docket 05-235

November 9th 05, 12:02 PM

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From: on Mon, Nov 7 2005 5:59 pm

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No wonder you aren't attached...

"Attached"? In what way?

I don't have a conjoined twin, if that's what you mean.

You are NOT married? Are NOT a parent?

Why do you want to know, Len?

What does it matter?

You're misdirecting away from the point about cb.

This thread was originally about WT Docket 05-235. That Docket
has NO relation to Citizens Band Radio Service.

Sure it does - you're just in denial.

If a rules change makes amateur radio more like cb, there's
a definite connection. I think you'd like it if amateur radio
became just like cb radio.

I appreciate all sorts of classics.

Tsk, you and Davie "appreciate" those "classic johnsons" too much...

"Johnsons" Len.

Not "johnsons".

You seem obsessed by the latter, both your own and other people's. Why?

You can keep whatever you want, Len. But I find it odd that you
would hold onto your tube-filled Johnson for so long. After all,
you're always lecturing us about "change" and "new technology"
and all that sort of rot.

"Rot?"

Yes. As if newer is always better and older is worthless. You seem
to believe what Orwell wrote in "1984": "Ending is better than
mending".

How is your 1990s "original design" "tube-filled" "state of the
art" ham rig doing?

Whoever said it was "state of the art", Len? Certainly not me.

In any event, I used the Southgate Type 7 in the CW part of the
ARRL November Sweepstakes this past weekend. Made 443
QSOs in 77 sections. Only missed North Dakota, Alaska and the
Pacific sections. Worked K0HB and W4NTI, too.

Many items are routinely referred to by the manufacturer's name.
Hams do it all the time when describing their rigs. For example,
just considering radio sets, I've owned seven Heathkits, two RMEs,
three Nationals, two Hallicrafters, one Gonset, seven Southgates
and yes, at least four different Johnsons.

Could you ever get any of them to work?

Yes, Len - all of them that weren't hangar queens - parts units. If you
want to know
how many that is, it comes to:

Heathkit:
Working: DX-20/VF-1, HW-101 (2 of them, with HP-23 and HP-13 supplies),

AR-2/QF-1, HW-2036,
Parts units: HW-101, DX-100

RME: 4350A and 45, both working

National:
Working: NC-173, NC-200
Parts units: NC-173

Hallicrafters: SX-99 and SX-101, both working

Gonset: Super 6, working

Southgate: Types 1 through 7, all working

Johnson:

Working: Adventurer, Valiant, Viking 2/122VFO
Parts unit: Viking 2

Why? You've obviously got the most experience dealing with
one of the smallest Johnsons ever produced.

Dave and I are more interested in the bigger Johnsons, such as
the Valiant (I had one) and the Viking 2 (I had two of those, plus
the 122 VFO).

Except for the Southgates, one of the HW-101s, and the HW-2036,
I sold all of the above equipment - at a profit.

Sunuvagun!