On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:15:07 GMT, wrote:

Jeff Liebermann wrote:
Bachelor O'Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Cal Poly, Pomona (1971).

Aren't you the guy who I got a manual for a PRR-9/PRT-4 squad radio
from my reserver unit just before you graduated?

Seems to me you wanted to put it on 6M.

No, that wasn't me.

At the time, I was WB6EEP. I later morphed into WB6SSY and recently
upgraded to AE6KS. I was playing with Low Band, VHF, and UHF
commercial FM radios in college. I built a 6 meter FM repeater with
phone patch even before I went to Cal Poly so that I could make long
distance calls for cheap from the dorms.
http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/pics/Old%20Repeaters/slides/wb6eep-01.html
Yep... tubes. I was also involved in building several local ham
repeaters and worked part time at a local two-way shop.

A radio like the AN/PRT-4a would have been useful:
http://www.prc68.com/I/PRT4R9.shtml
http://www.kpjung.de/e_prr.htm
However, I don't recall ever seeing one around the skool, or in use by
any of the other hams. Mostly we preferred GE, Motorola, and RCA
commerical FM radios (in that order), which were available in
abundance as a result of the original FCC narrow banding ordeal
process.

Also, just before I was graduated(1), I was in a state of panic and in
danger of getting drafted. I had to quit all outside activities,
including part time employment and ham radio, and study sufficiently
hard in order to insure that I graduate. Failure would have meant
that I would probably get to use one of those squad radios, in Viet
Nam.


(1) The debate among the instructors was whether to fail my senior
project, thus requiring me to take another year of classes, or to get
rid of me by handing me my diploma with instructions go as far away as
possible. Fortunately, the latter group won.

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Jeff Liebermann
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Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
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