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Old January 9th 07, 05:56 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.scanner
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Default Do procode hams wipe their butts?

"Lawrence Statton XE2/N1GAK" wrote in message
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"Radiosrfun" writes:

Somewhere in my papers - I have an article that came out specifically
dealing with taking a "Space Patrol" type walkie talkie and placing it on
"6
meters" as a QRP rig. I bought a pair to do it - and things got hectic.
That
became a back burner project. I still have the walkie talkies but have to
dig out the paperwork.


There was a group of us back in Boston in the late 80s doing that a
lot ... we had a big bin of the xtals, and were tuning them up for a
local 6m repeater.

I also had a simplex pair that I used to build a fun 2400 bps packet
rig.

Imminently hackable, and amazingly cheap.

Good memories.

--
Lawrence Statton - m s/aba/c/g
Computer software consists of only two components: ones and
zeros, in roughly equal proportions. All that is required is to
sort them into the correct order.


Yeah - the biggest deal of it was changing the crystal. I think the coils
and so on - were pretty much there within reason to oscillate. Been a while
since I read the article though.