yes, Andrew, thanks for that note and some very good points...

we recently had our annual regional Hamcom 2004 convention, at which I had
the chance to catch local microwave and antennas guru Kent Britain's
WA5VJB's seminar on microwaves modifications. My favorite was a obsolete
cell phone 3 watt output chip that does 18 watts nicely on 13.8 Vdc ;-)
All the wi-fi and garage door conversions into microwave transceivers, and
the police radar detectors into microwave setups. And how about some of
the simple conversions of TV tuners into spectrum analyzer projects? ;-)
And the cable TV modules that do all sorts of jobs from preamps to power
amps ;-) So I just joined the North Tx Microwave Society to expand beyond
the satellite and ATV stuff we are doing now into new areas for our club
;-)

so thanks to computer and phone co. surplus, we may have a second
generation of surplus conversions to rival those of the 1950s and 1960s
for military surplus to amateur radio uses?

grins bobm

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