Gary Cavie wrote:

Actually Gareth, Harold W4CZB is everything that you claim to aspire
to.

Funny how Gareth only posts during library opening hours...
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Hi Airy

Your gratuitous use of Childish Broadcasting (CB) suggests
that "W4CZB" is some form of Yankland CBer's callsign.

Ham Radio has traditions of gentlemanliness which have been
completely lost on you. If there is any trolling going on, then
surely it has arisen through your infantile and
uncalled-for outburst below?

Grow up, Harold!

Stupid boy.

Long time no speak! Sorry I didn't make it to the rally last week, I would
have liked to meet you.

You know, if we got to see some of the interesting homebrew kit and
modifications that you frequently talk about, I am sure that it would stall
many of the "outbursts" that you attract and refer to. If you don't have
access to a camera or scanner, written desciptions would be fine. I am sure
that that your designs would be both an inspiration and a help to many of us
who would like to have the benefit of your knowledge and experience.

If you don't have a website, you can either email or post me your designs
and I'll be glad to publish them for you, of course giving you full credit,
as I have done for a few others' designs that I've published on the authors'
behalf.

My email address is on my website and my address is in qrz.com and the
Yearbook back to 2001.

Thanks & 73, Howard G6LVB
http://www.g6lvb.com

Test

Hello Harold,

Thanks for the comments. My 100 W PA has worked quite well from 1.8 to 29.7
MHz, which was the requirement. Nice to hear from you.

Bill W0IYH

I have several homebrew QRP rigs that fit in the palm of my hand.

They're all HF...a couple even exceed 3w output.

They make the FT817 seem like a bowling ball in the backpack. g

73


"Airy R.Bean" wrote in message
...
Much of the negativity that the CBer-Masquerading-As-A-Radio-Ham
emits when it is suggested to him that he should build his own rig comes
from a complaint that it is not possible to miniaturise a rig to the sizes
that are available from the Nipland CB suppliers, mainly Yaesu and
Kenwood.

But, surely, the size of a rig is irrelevant to anyone interested in
technical
performance?

I wonder what size of rig is really acceptable to the _REAL_ Radio Ham
when
you consider that the RACAL RA17 was a large 19" rack model, and
when you take into consideration the footprint of desktop PC's that have
been welcomed so recently into a number of shacks?

How about a foot print of between 12" and 18" square, with a height of
about
3"?

That would make a rig about the same size as a DVD player, again, an item
of consumerist products that until recently was unknown but now is de
rigeur - again
pointing out the spurious argument put up against HB.

In a box 18" square by 3" tall, we'd have enough room to manoeuvre and to
experiment with circuit changes but without worrying that our Henley
"Solon"
soldering irons were going to melt a component other than the one we're
currently dealing with.

Well done, that man!

I bet it's difficult, though, to experiment with the circuit
configuration of any of them!

"Brian - KB9BVN" wrote in message
ink.net...
I have several homebrew QRP rigs that fit in the palm of my hand.

They're all HF...a couple even exceed 3w output.

They make the FT817 seem like a bowling ball in the backpack. g