On Nov 15, 6:09�pm, Mike Coslo wrote:
wrote in news:b28e915f-9e45-44eb-b787-ba7d8ef21e44
@w73g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:

Occasionally, I see comments/complaints that "nobody builds anymore"
or that "you can't homebrew really good equipment" etc.

Too often! I don't really think it is correct either. I look around my
shack and garage and most of my stuff is homebrew. My entire hobby is more

about making things than it is operating. I haven't built my own Xceiver
yet tho'.

Apparently this amateur hasn't gotten the word:

http://www.arrl.org/qex/2007/11/drent.pdf

Looks like it should be a really nice unit with good performance.
Good for him, and I'm going to follow this one!

As I opined in my 'invisible' posting: It looks like a very nice pre-
production prototype. Production versions would be about $3K each
or so.

In addition: Cornell Drentea has an interesting AOL home page. Over
35 years as a pro in the RF business. One should be able to believe
his specifications.

73, Len AF6AY

AF6AY wrote:
On Nov 15, 6:09�pm, Mike Coslo wrote:
wrote in news:b28e915f-9e45-44eb-b787-ba7d8ef21e44
@w73g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:

Occasionally, I see comments/complaints that "nobody builds anymore"
or that "you can't homebrew really good equipment" etc.
Too often! I don't really think it is correct either. I look around my
shack and garage and most of my stuff is homebrew. My entire hobby is more

about making things than it is operating. I haven't built my own Xceiver
yet tho'.

Apparently this amateur hasn't gotten the word:
http://www.arrl.org/qex/2007/11/drent.pdf
Looks like it should be a really nice unit with good performance.
Good for him, and I'm going to follow this one!

As I opined in my 'invisible' posting: It looks like a very nice pre-
production prototype. Production versions would be about $3K each
or so.

In addition: Cornell Drentea has an interesting AOL home page. Over
35 years as a pro in the RF business. One should be able to believe
his specifications.

Wow, an accomplished fellow for sure. On his home page I can see one big
difference between him and me. He apparently could put the stuff he tore
apart back together at the age of six. It took me until around 15 to do
that. I was grounded a lot as a kid until my grandfather started
shipping old radios that I was supposed to take apart. ;^)

Well a lot more than one big difference......

- 73 de Mike N3LI -

In article ,
Michael Coslo writes:

Wow, an accomplished fellow for sure. On his home page I can see one big
difference between him and me. He apparently could put the stuff he tore
apart back together at the age of six. It took me until around 15 to do
that. I was grounded a lot as a kid until my grandfather started
shipping old radios that I was supposed to take apart. ;^)

I repaired my first radio at the age of 9. It was a desktop Philco
with Standard Broadcast :-) and Short Wave. I used it all thru my
youth to listen to the likes of "The Lone Ranger", "The Shadow",
"Your's Truly, Johnny Dollar" and "Big John and Sparky". I just
collected it from my parents house. You know what, that same component
has gone bad. You just can't get quality, I guess. That electrolytic
only lasted 48 years. Wonder where I can find another one so I can
fix it again. :-)

bill
KB3YV

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