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On 2005-07-25, John Smith wrote:
OK, got the tech and general done, here are the questions AND THE ANSWERS: http://blake.prohosting.com/mailguy2/techtest.txt http://blake.prohosting.com/mailguy2/generaltest.txt You can download them from the ARRL (questions and answers). When I was studying I made a perl script that would either quiz you or filter out the wrong answers. -- Ben Jackson http://www.ben.com/ |
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John, Why did you go to all that trouble? The test is so easy now a
"Cave Man" could pass them. Don't insult us like Gieco does Auto insurance. Gary N45AST |
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Draw a Colpitts Oscillator
Dave WD9BDZ John Smith wrote: Ben: Give us a couple of examples of what you think are difficult, relevant and appropriate questions, let us see how difficult you think this "rocket science" is, exactly? Indeed, if there is something you are having a problem with, there are those here which can help you... John "Ben Jackson" wrote in message ... On 2005-07-25, wrote: John, Why did you go to all that trouble? The test is so easy now a "Cave Man" could pass them. Actually I think they were dumbed down so a cave man could GRADE them. That dictated multiple choice, and it's hard to make a tough multiple choice test. Of course what do I know? I'm just a cave man who passed the tests! -- Ben Jackson http://www.ben.com/ |
Copy 60 seconds of Morse Code by hand with no errors, corrections or
omissions. What's the difference between a Colpitts oscillator and a Hartley Oscillator? Draw schematics of both showing the differences. What is the purpose of a 'swinging choke'? Ah!! Those were the days ....n :-) David G. Nagel wrote: Draw a Colpitts Oscillator Dave WD9BDZ John Smith wrote: Ben: Give us a couple of examples of what you think are difficult, relevant and appropriate questions, let us see how difficult you think this "rocket science" is, exactly? Indeed, if there is something you are having a problem with, there are those here which can help you... John "Ben Jackson" wrote in message ... On 2005-07-25, wrote: John, Why did you go to all that trouble? The test is so easy now a "Cave Man" could pass them. Actually I think they were dumbed down so a cave man could GRADE them. That dictated multiple choice, and it's hard to make a tough multiple choice test. Of course what do I know? I'm just a cave man who passed the tests! -- Ben Jackson http://www.ben.com/ |
Ham op wrote:
What is the purpose of a 'swinging choke'? To get it closer to the antenna feedpoint? -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
and label the frequency determining elements. At least that is how I
remember it... "David G. Nagel" wrote in message ... Draw a Colpitts Oscillator Dave WD9BDZ |
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John;
Just what in the hell does your asinine comment on the President of the United States have to do with questions on an Amateur Radio Test? For what it's worth I would make the above statement if you were to reference Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter. Dave Nagel WD9BD John Smith wrote: David: Even now, I would have to look at a diagram... however, once reviewed I could draw you one for a month or so, before again I would have to look... That is difficult? Your question is as easy as any on that test! Now if you asked me to draw you a picture of George Bush and make it realistic--I would fail forever--gawd, get a clue man if all you want to do is make the test difficult and allow artists licenses! John "David G. Nagel" wrote in message ... Draw a Colpitts Oscillator Dave WD9BDZ John Smith wrote: Ben: Give us a couple of examples of what you think are difficult, relevant and appropriate questions, let us see how difficult you think this "rocket science" is, exactly? Indeed, if there is something you are having a problem with, there are those here which can help you... John "Ben Jackson" wrote in message ... On 2005-07-25, wrote: John, Why did you go to all that trouble? The test is so easy now a "Cave Man" could pass them. Actually I think they were dumbed down so a cave man could GRADE them. That dictated multiple choice, and it's hard to make a tough multiple choice test. Of course what do I know? I'm just a cave man who passed the tests! -- Ben Jackson http://www.ben.com/ |
John;
The Colpitts and Hartley Oscillators are still current technology. Dave WD9BDZ John Smith wrote: Ohhh, ask historical questions... Well, this is the digital age, fat chance of those questions ever getting there again... However, when the DMV starts asking questions on how to properly groom a horse--and what to do if the horse ever farts in public--you will know that world is ripe for such... John "Ham op" wrote in message ... Copy 60 seconds of Morse Code by hand with no errors, corrections or omissions. What's the difference between a Colpitts oscillator and a Hartley Oscillator? Draw schematics of both showing the differences. What is the purpose of a 'swinging choke'? Ah!! Those were the days ....n :-) David G. Nagel wrote: Draw a Colpitts Oscillator Dave WD9BDZ John Smith wrote: Ben: Give us a couple of examples of what you think are difficult, relevant and appropriate questions, let us see how difficult you think this "rocket science" is, exactly? Indeed, if there is something you are having a problem with, there are those here which can help you... John "Ben Jackson" wrote in message .. . On 2005-07-25, wrote: John, Why did you go to all that trouble? The test is so easy now a "Cave Man" could pass them. Actually I think they were dumbed down so a cave man could GRADE them. That dictated multiple choice, and it's hard to make a tough multiple choice test. Of course what do I know? I'm just a cave man who passed the tests! -- Ben Jackson http://www.ben.com/ |
John;
I'm starting to see a trend in your replies. Dave WD9BDZ John Smith wrote: Cecil: stoopid-puzzled-look-on-face Some fools try to use the damn things in power supplies! Macho men which want a real "tarzan" (the original swinger) in their radio! (arnold probably has one in his cordless phones power supply) John "Cecil Moore" wrote in message ... Ham op wrote: What is the purpose of a 'swinging choke'? To get it closer to the antenna feedpoint? -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
Fred;
Worked for me.... Dave WD9BDZ Fred W4JLE wrote: and label the frequency determining elements. At least that is how I remember it... "David G. Nagel" wrote in message ... Draw a Colpitts Oscillator Dave WD9BDZ |
John;
No more comments from me. Dave WD9BDZ John Smith wrote: label the frequency determining elements? Why the xtal and any associated coil or cap used to "pull" the freq in the cmos oscillator... or the pin you take the signal out of on of the decade/hex/octal freq divider... errr, oh wait, you are speaking of the ancient stuff from museums! That is simple, the crystal (if present) and/or coil and cap... hey, you didn't sneak a freq doubler in behind that osc, did ya? geesh... any cber would know that, well, after he read it... and you ain't sneaky and tryin' to run off a harmonic of that osc, are ya? ROFLOL!!!! John "Fred W4JLE" wrote in message ... and label the frequency determining elements. At least that is how I remember it... "David G. Nagel" wrote in message ... Draw a Colpitts Oscillator Dave WD9BDZ |
Cecil Moore wrote:
Ham op wrote: What is the purpose of a 'swinging choke'? To get it closer to the antenna feedpoint? C'mon Cecil, you've been licensed long enough, at least as long as I have, to know that a 'swinging choke' changes the center of percussion on a baseball bat. It allows for a quicker swing. :-) Now, if your antenna has a large capacitive component as part of it's input ... then quite possibly a swinging choke might help. But, if your HV power supply needs to limit inrush currents then ... |
Ham op wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote: Ham op wrote: What is the purpose of a 'swinging choke'? To get it closer to the antenna feedpoint? C'mon Cecil, you've been licensed long enough, at least as long as I have, to know that a 'swinging choke' changes the center of percussion on a baseball bat. It allows for a quicker swing. :-) Now, if your antenna has a large capacitive component as part of it's input ... then quite possibly a swinging choke might help. But, if your HV power supply needs to limit inrush currents then ... Back to my comment. I was interrupted as my XYL was leaving for work. Seriously, for the younger ham reader. The older AM transmitters, vacuum tube type, required continuous plate current at rated power. It was necessary to keep full plate current even in the absence of audio. A swinging choke, one with an critical inductance value that changed as a function of 'DC' current [variable reluctance] , as the first component of a HV supply, simplified the requirements on the other components of the HV filter circuit. Namely, the first input capacitor. High power HV supplies were typically designed using a double 'L' filter, choke input. The first choke provided better performance if it had a variable reactance as a function of rectified current. The minimum value of reactance [critical inductance] was a feature of the 'swinging choke'. Ah!! The good old days. Radios were radios that worked all tv sets, stereos systems, and am broadcast receivers. I ran a 6AG7/6L6 at 10 watts on 15 meters CW and worked ALL tv sets [ALL] within 1/2 mile. I used a good quality DRAKE LP filter, a Pi network tuner, and had very low harmonic output and still worked all TV sets. Question to the younger crowd ... Why did I have TVI? Cecil, you should not answer. But, I suspect you had the same experience. Note: Cecil and I both have formal technical training. |
Ham op wrote:
Question to the younger crowd ... Why did I have TVI? Cecil, you should not answer. But, I suspect you had the same experience. Note: Cecil and I both have formal technical training. Back around 1954, I put 600 feet of copperweld in the air, fed by a modified ART-13 running 500 watts. The lights in my room would dim during key down. The closest TV transmitter was 90 miles away in Houston. Madisonville, TX had no TV cable system at the time. When I fired up, I wiped out TV reception for a good 100 square miles. My parents took the ART-13 away from me, made me take down the 600 ft. random wire, and go back to my 40w Globe Scout and 40m dipole. :-( I also came through rather distorted on a local church's sound system. Some of the congregation thought that God was speaking to them in an unknown tongue. :-) -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
Cecil:
Ahhh, the "control freak" parents, I remember that generation of parents well--I had a fully functional set of them myself (frown.) With me it was tesla coils. But same result, constant complaining from citizens I share this ether with--about interference with tv, radios, guitar amps, etc... Made me wonder how Nicola Tesla got his start? It was when I started winding them of heavy gauge wire on carpet tubes (massive varnished cardboard tubes used to roll up large rugs) and using banks of 15KV neon sign transformers with humongous caps wound from yards of aluminum foil and visqueen plastic sheet with spark gaps constructed from tungsten alloy to withstand the punishment--that the real trouble began, fuses began blowing and corona discharges yards long... that kind of "light show" and "booming/snapping" of the sparkgap was difficult to cloak from sight. I became addicted to the smell of ozone, more addictive than heroin to a "rf nut!" You and I are kindred spirits in our natural gift to be annoying without trying... :( John "Cecil Moore" wrote in message ... Ham op wrote: Question to the younger crowd ... Why did I have TVI? Cecil, you should not answer. But, I suspect you had the same experience. Note: Cecil and I both have formal technical training. Back around 1954, I put 600 feet of copperweld in the air, fed by a modified ART-13 running 500 watts. The lights in my room would dim during key down. The closest TV transmitter was 90 miles away in Houston. Madisonville, TX had no TV cable system at the time. When I fired up, I wiped out TV reception for a good 100 square miles. My parents took the ART-13 away from me, made me take down the 600 ft. random wire, and go back to my 40w Globe Scout and 40m dipole. :-( I also came through rather distorted on a local church's sound system. Some of the congregation thought that God was speaking to them in an unknown tongue. :-) -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
Cecil Moore wrote:
SNIPPED Back around 1954, I put 600 feet of copperweld in the air, fed by a modified ART-13 running 500 watts. The lights in my room would dim during key down. The closest TV transmitter was 90 miles away in Houston. Madisonville, TX had no TV cable system at the time. When I fired up, I wiped out TV reception for a good 100 square miles. My parents took the ART-13 away from me, made me take down the 600 ft. random wire, and go back to my 40w Globe Scout and 40m dipole. :-( I also came through rather distorted on a local church's sound system. Some of the congregation thought that God was speaking to them in an unknown tongue. :-) Today's newer breed of hams will never have such marvelous experiences. Funny thing though, even though I earned the WATV interference award on my first weekend it took almost two weeks to work my 'Elmer' across town!! |
John, the digital age can come to an end in a heartbeat. An EMP pulse may
well wipe out the computers. CW which requires nothing but the human mind to get data through will be with us to the end of humanity. As hams we need to be able to provide communications under the worst imaginable scenario. I, and many of the hams on here could in short order build a simple transmitter and receiver capable of CW operation and get a message through. What if no one on the other end is capable of receiving the message? I guess you can ride like Paul Revere as your car will no longer run unless you drive an old pre-computer model. The DMV may indeed be asking questions as to what to do when your horse takes a dump in public. I don't care if the FCC and the rest of the world makes stupid decisions, I have no problems with anyone who enters amateur radio via slow/no code. My objection is with sacrificing a skill that may be required to save lives and property for the sake of increasing numbers. Too bad a neat skill set was viewed as a determent... "John Smith" wrote in message ... Ohhh, ask historical questions... Well, this is the digital age, fat chance of those questions ever getting there again... However, when the DMV starts asking questions on how to properly groom a horse--and what to do if the horse ever farts in public--you will know that world is ripe for such... John |
In a colpitts oscillator? It works the same if you use solid state or hollow
state. "John Smith" wrote in message ... label the frequency determining elements? Why the xtal and any associated coil or cap used to "pull" the freq in the cmos oscillator... or the pin you take the signal out of on of the decade/hex/octal freq divider... errr, oh wait, you are speaking of the ancient stuff from museums! That is simple, the crystal (if present) and/or coil and cap... hey, you didn't sneak a freq doubler in behind that osc, did ya? geesh... any cber would know that, well, after he read it... and you ain't sneaky and tryin' to run off a harmonic of that osc, are ya? ROFLOL!!!! John "Fred W4JLE" wrote in message ... and label the frequency determining elements. At least that is how I remember it... "David G. Nagel" wrote in message ... Draw a Colpitts Oscillator Dave WD9BDZ |
A buddy of mine and I had some buzzers that were used as signaling devices
on the city busses. We discovered that when we activated them they played hell with an AM radio. We decided that if we hooked a bunch of wire to each terminal of the buzzer contacts we might be able to send messages between our houses. He lived four doors down. Armed with the buzzers and a couple of Philco radios we were in business. Seems we had rediscovered spark gap transmitters much to the consternation of the neighbors. All went well until our neighbor six doors down, John Cummings W8DSL, took umbrage to our mode of transmission. Seems he could read code even better then we could and soon ferreted us out. For a couple of ten year olds it was a lot of fun messing up Stella Dallas et al that our moms listened to. "Cecil Moore" wrote in message ... Ham op wrote: Question to the younger crowd ... Why did I have TVI? Cecil, you should not answer. But, I suspect you had the same experience. Note: Cecil and I both have formal technical training. Back around 1954, I put 600 feet of copperweld in the air, fed by a modified ART-13 running 500 watts. The lights in my room would dim during key down. The closest TV transmitter was 90 miles away in Houston. Madisonville, TX had no TV cable system at the time. When I fired up, I wiped out TV reception for a good 100 square miles. My parents took the ART-13 away from me, made me take down the 600 ft. random wire, and go back to my 40w Globe Scout and 40m dipole. :-( I also came through rather distorted on a local church's sound system. Some of the congregation thought that God was speaking to them in an unknown tongue. :-) -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
Fred:
I have nothing against those who wish to maintain ancient technology for when the "madmax age" (I think I even look a bit like Mel Gibson--too bad the women can't see the similarity!) arrives we will be prepared, I am just against FORCING people to do this. I am against requiring them in being proficient in sending smoke signals, shoot arrows with messages attached, using carrier pidgeon or being able to pass messages between villages by "african message drum" also, if we get there, we will pick it up fast enough... John "Fred W4JLE" wrote in message ... John, the digital age can come to an end in a heartbeat. An EMP pulse may well wipe out the computers. CW which requires nothing but the human mind to get data through will be with us to the end of humanity. As hams we need to be able to provide communications under the worst imaginable scenario. I, and many of the hams on here could in short order build a simple transmitter and receiver capable of CW operation and get a message through. What if no one on the other end is capable of receiving the message? I guess you can ride like Paul Revere as your car will no longer run unless you drive an old pre-computer model. The DMV may indeed be asking questions as to what to do when your horse takes a dump in public. I don't care if the FCC and the rest of the world makes stupid decisions, I have no problems with anyone who enters amateur radio via slow/no code. My objection is with sacrificing a skill that may be required to save lives and property for the sake of increasing numbers. Too bad a neat skill set was viewed as a determent... "John Smith" wrote in message ... Ohhh, ask historical questions... Well, this is the digital age, fat chance of those questions ever getting there again... However, when the DMV starts asking questions on how to properly groom a horse--and what to do if the horse ever farts in public--you will know that world is ripe for such... John |
actually, it takes a bit of wave shaping to get that square, saw tooth or ramp
into a decent sinewave out of most of the digital signal sources osc's... you don't need to start with a perfect sine being produced at the osc level... John "Fred W4JLE" wrote in message ... In a colpitts oscillator? It works the same if you use solid state or hollow state. "John Smith" wrote in message ... label the frequency determining elements? Why the xtal and any associated coil or cap used to "pull" the freq in the cmos oscillator... or the pin you take the signal out of on of the decade/hex/octal freq divider... errr, oh wait, you are speaking of the ancient stuff from museums! That is simple, the crystal (if present) and/or coil and cap... hey, you didn't sneak a freq doubler in behind that osc, did ya? geesh... any cber would know that, well, after he read it... and you ain't sneaky and tryin' to run off a harmonic of that osc, are ya? ROFLOL!!!! John "Fred W4JLE" wrote in message ... and label the frequency determining elements. At least that is how I remember it... "David G. Nagel" wrote in message ... Draw a Colpitts Oscillator Dave WD9BDZ |
If you think back to the first Star Trek movie it took good old
fashioned Morse Code to communicate with "V'ger" (Voyager) Dave N Fred W4JLE wrote: John, the digital age can come to an end in a heartbeat. An EMP pulse may well wipe out the computers. CW which requires nothing but the human mind to get data through will be with us to the end of humanity. As hams we need to be able to provide communications under the worst imaginable scenario. I, and many of the hams on here could in short order build a simple transmitter and receiver capable of CW operation and get a message through. What if no one on the other end is capable of receiving the message? I guess you can ride like Paul Revere as your car will no longer run unless you drive an old pre-computer model. The DMV may indeed be asking questions as to what to do when your horse takes a dump in public. I don't care if the FCC and the rest of the world makes stupid decisions, I have no problems with anyone who enters amateur radio via slow/no code. My objection is with sacrificing a skill that may be required to save lives and property for the sake of increasing numbers. Too bad a neat skill set was viewed as a determent... "John Smith" wrote in message ... Ohhh, ask historical questions... Well, this is the digital age, fat chance of those questions ever getting there again... However, when the DMV starts asking questions on how to properly groom a horse--and what to do if the horse ever farts in public--you will know that world is ripe for such... John |
John, no one has ever been "forced" to learn CW to become a ham. Everything
in life has a price of admission. You may choose to pay the price or not. I have never heard of "press gangs" capturing people and forcing them to learn CW. Neither have I seen a movie titled "Two Years Before The Key" Like I say, I don't have a dog in the code/nocode fight. I personally feel that it is a necessary tool. YMMV "John Smith" wrote in message ... Fred: I have nothing against those who wish to maintain ancient technology for when the "madmax age" (I think I even look a bit like Mel Gibson--too bad the women can't see the similarity!) arrives we will be prepared, I am just against FORCING people to do this. I am against requiring them in being proficient in sending smoke signals, shoot arrows with messages attached, using carrier pidgeon or being able to pass messages between villages by "african message drum" also, if we get there, we will pick it up fast enough... John "Fred W4JLE" wrote in message ... John, the digital age can come to an end in a heartbeat. An EMP pulse may well wipe out the computers. CW which requires nothing but the human mind to get data through will be with us to the end of humanity. As hams we need to be able to provide communications under the worst imaginable scenario. I, and many of the hams on here could in short order build a simple transmitter and receiver capable of CW operation and get a message through. What if no one on the other end is capable of receiving the message? I guess you can ride like Paul Revere as your car will no longer run unless you drive an old pre-computer model. The DMV may indeed be asking questions as to what to do when your horse takes a dump in public. I don't care if the FCC and the rest of the world makes stupid decisions, I have no problems with anyone who enters amateur radio via slow/no code. My objection is with sacrificing a skill that may be required to save lives and property for the sake of increasing numbers. Too bad a neat skill set was viewed as a determent... "John Smith" wrote in message ... Ohhh, ask historical questions... Well, this is the digital age, fat chance of those questions ever getting there again... However, when the DMV starts asking questions on how to properly groom a horse--and what to do if the horse ever farts in public--you will know that world is ripe for such... John |
Fred:
There is no "price of admission" which needs be paid, the tests should reflect a logical, necessary "instruction" for what a guy/gal will need to get a radio and enter the hobby on level which is inline with his/her interests... Morse has no place in this age, few will ever be interested in a key... if they are, no one will stop them from picking one up. Long live amateur radio, and long stay dead the key... John "Fred W4JLE" wrote in message ... John, no one has ever been "forced" to learn CW to become a ham. Everything in life has a price of admission. You may choose to pay the price or not. I have never heard of "press gangs" capturing people and forcing them to learn CW. Neither have I seen a movie titled "Two Years Before The Key" Like I say, I don't have a dog in the code/nocode fight. I personally feel that it is a necessary tool. YMMV "John Smith" wrote in message ... Fred: I have nothing against those who wish to maintain ancient technology for when the "madmax age" (I think I even look a bit like Mel Gibson--too bad the women can't see the similarity!) arrives we will be prepared, I am just against FORCING people to do this. I am against requiring them in being proficient in sending smoke signals, shoot arrows with messages attached, using carrier pidgeon or being able to pass messages between villages by "african message drum" also, if we get there, we will pick it up fast enough... John "Fred W4JLE" wrote in message ... John, the digital age can come to an end in a heartbeat. An EMP pulse may well wipe out the computers. CW which requires nothing but the human mind to get data through will be with us to the end of humanity. As hams we need to be able to provide communications under the worst imaginable scenario. I, and many of the hams on here could in short order build a simple transmitter and receiver capable of CW operation and get a message through. What if no one on the other end is capable of receiving the message? I guess you can ride like Paul Revere as your car will no longer run unless you drive an old pre-computer model. The DMV may indeed be asking questions as to what to do when your horse takes a dump in public. I don't care if the FCC and the rest of the world makes stupid decisions, I have no problems with anyone who enters amateur radio via slow/no code. My objection is with sacrificing a skill that may be required to save lives and property for the sake of increasing numbers. Too bad a neat skill set was viewed as a determent... "John Smith" wrote in message ... Ohhh, ask historical questions... Well, this is the digital age, fat chance of those questions ever getting there again... However, when the DMV starts asking questions on how to properly groom a horse--and what to do if the horse ever farts in public--you will know that world is ripe for such... John |
John Smith wrote:
SNIPPED Long live amateur radio, and long stay dead the key... John John, I don't know if you do serious DX. But, I will witness that DX on CW is a heck of a lot easier and faster than on SSB. As long as there is 'exotic DX' CW will live. |
Ham op:
I don't even enjoy chat with male ops! I like a nice female voice, either am/ssb/fm with an aussie or british accent... Contacts for the sake of contacts? List of countries I "want" to chat with? Number of contacts? Naaa, none of the above interest me, they did when I first got my license--but soon (over a year or two) tired of that... Hey, what can I say.... Perhaps I am not your "normal" ham... ya think? grin John "Ham op" wrote in message ... John Smith wrote: SNIPPED Long live amateur radio, and long stay dead the key... John John, I don't know if you do serious DX. But, I will witness that DX on CW is a heck of a lot easier and faster than on SSB. As long as there is 'exotic DX' CW will live. |
Ham op wrote: John Smith wrote: SNIPPED Long live amateur radio, and long stay dead the key... John John, I don't know if you do serious DX. I suspect that "John" is not supposed to use his station to transmit more than 150 miles. ac6xg |
Jim:
Interesting. Do you do psychic consultations also? If so, life must be tough trying to be an accurate psychic! A twelve year old could mount a better attempt on my anonymity. Even sharpened insults are thwarted by this old elephants hide... ROFLOL... John "Jim Kelley" wrote in message ... Ham op wrote: John Smith wrote: SNIPPED Long live amateur radio, and long stay dead the key... John John, I don't know if you do serious DX. I suspect that "John" is not supposed to use his station to transmit more than 150 miles. ac6xg |
.... I maintain dual citizenship (cb/amateur)
If you ask who are the most fun? CB'ers! If you ask who is the most helpful on the highway? Truckers! If you ask the most interesting evening chat? Local CB'ers! If you ask, who there are the most of in my city? CB'ers! Now, if you ask what is the best method of communications? THE INTERNET and MSN chat, yahoo chat, IRC chat, webcam chat, newsgroups, etc, etc.... Hey, you know all of this, look where you are! .... some of this is a real no-brainer yanno... grin John "John Smith" wrote in message ... Jim: Interesting. Do you do psychic consultations also? If so, life must be tough trying to be an accurate psychic! A twelve year old could mount a better attempt on my anonymity. Even sharpened insults are thwarted by this old elephants hide... ROFLOL... John "Jim Kelley" wrote in message ... Ham op wrote: John Smith wrote: SNIPPED Long live amateur radio, and long stay dead the key... John John, I don't know if you do serious DX. I suspect that "John" is not supposed to use his station to transmit more than 150 miles. ac6xg |
I don't remember ever seeing anyone acuse you of being normal.
"John Smith" wrote in message ... ************* Snipped **************** = Hey, what can I say.... Perhaps I am not your "normal" ham... ya think? grin John |
Fred:
Thanks. Well, I am just paranoid, in constant fear of being accused... :| John "Fred W4JLE" wrote in message ... I don't remember ever seeing anyone acuse you of being normal. "John Smith" wrote in message ... ************* Snipped **************** = Hey, what can I say.... Perhaps I am not your "normal" ham... ya think? grin John |
David:
Actually, I miss ya bud... .... come back! John "David G. Nagel" wrote in message ... John; No more comments from me. Dave WD9BDZ John Smith wrote: label the frequency determining elements? Why the xtal and any associated coil or cap used to "pull" the freq in the cmos oscillator... or the pin you take the signal out of on of the decade/hex/octal freq divider... errr, oh wait, you are speaking of the ancient stuff from museums! That is simple, the crystal (if present) and/or coil and cap... hey, you didn't sneak a freq doubler in behind that osc, did ya? geesh... any cber would know that, well, after he read it... and you ain't sneaky and tryin' to run off a harmonic of that osc, are ya? ROFLOL!!!! John "Fred W4JLE" wrote in message ... and label the frequency determining elements. At least that is how I remember it... "David G. Nagel" wrote in message ... Draw a Colpitts Oscillator Dave WD9BDZ |
Just out of curousity -- what modern Ham gear uses a Colpitts oscillator or
a swinging choke ?? Then why ask these questions on a 2005 Ham test ?? Maybe ask about a VCO or a crowbar circuit ?? -- CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be ! Someone wrote Draw a Colpitts Oscillator What is a swinging choke |
How about PLL?
John "Caveat Lector" wrote in message news:nH6Ge.22103$HV1.10801@fed1read07... Just out of curousity -- what modern Ham gear uses a Colpitts oscillator or a swinging choke ?? Then why ask these questions on a 2005 Ham test ?? Maybe ask about a VCO or a crowbar circuit ?? -- CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be ! Someone wrote Draw a Colpitts Oscillator What is a swinging choke |
A PLL question is on the extra exam See question
E7D07 -- CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be ! "John Smith" wrote in message ... How about PLL? John "Caveat Lector" wrote in message news:nH6Ge.22103$HV1.10801@fed1read07... Just out of curousity -- what modern Ham gear uses a Colpitts oscillator or a swinging choke ?? Then why ask these questions on a 2005 Ham test ?? Maybe ask about a VCO or a crowbar circuit ?? -- CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be ! Someone wrote Draw a Colpitts Oscillator What is a swinging choke |
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