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From: Dave Heil on Thu, 22 Feb
2007 15:44:05 GMT PERSON J MAKES ANOTHER FACTUAL ERROR... WHO is "person J," red-hatted one? WHO are all the other "Persons" mentioned? :-) Your posts were made long after Micheal Black advised the original poster that the SUBJECT was off-topic for the newsgroup. What you did was address a SUBJECT which didn't belong. That didn't stop Leonard H. Anderson. Feel free to address the Appelate Court of Internet Appeals, file a Notice of Intent to Sue. [Sue is the clerk of the court...] There was no overt expression of "dislike for 'CW'" by myself. Just covert expression, huh? "Covert?!?" Did you find some developing fluid to make the "secret hidden message" visible to all? :-) Or have you drunk that "developing fluid" too hastily? :-) You just HAD to say something negative or dismissive about the responses of just about anyone who posted, but that was okay. "Just about 'anyone' who posted?!?" Heh heh heh, only about some organ grinders and their little red-hatted morse monkeys who do bad imitations of Otto Preminger. ...while you made numerous lengthy, wandering responses and "made noise" despite knowing that the subject was off-topic. WHO established this "off-topic" status? YOU didn't. Miccolis didn't. RRAH is an unmoderated newsgroup. Awwww...you wanted PRAISE and HONOR just for morse code? Where was any such idea put forth? Oh, just in hundreds of past postings by the organ grinder and his little red-hatted morse monkey for years... :-) How will you ease your personal burdens of anger, rage, spite and other personal defects of behavior as described in the N2EY profile of your actions? Ooooooo! I have all those things? :-) I will continue, as I've done before, of laughing my head off at the FACTUAL ERROR-FILLED "profiles" your organ grinder cranked out. :-) I'll be able to use Morse, FM, SSB, AM, RTTY and other digital modes on the amateur radio bands today, on Friday and at any time after that date. Wonderful...who was STOPPING you before? Hollingsworth? Martin? The CIA? What will you be doing on the amateur radio bands after Friday, Len? Was I supposed to be "doing something on the amateur radio bands?" :-) "On the bands?" No, you should have written "IN" the bands. Tsk, tsk, factual English Error! Hmmm...not that it's any of YOUR nosy business, but we (that is, my wife and I) have plans and events for the week-end. The AAA 500 is on at the California Speedway in Fontana on Sunday...one example. And you may play make-believe ham radio operator in internet newsgroups. I do that?!? Oh, my, you DO have a terrible ability to read... Tsk, I've never claimed to be either an amateur radio operator or a "ham radio" operator in real life or in newsgroups, not on BBS or in correspondence with amateur radio organizations. Don't even play one on TV. You are confused and think I am someone else... The decision may or may not have been "right". History will reveal whether it was right or wrong. We can rest assured that the organ grinder and his little red-hatted morse monkey will OVER-RIDE any "decisions of history!" :-) THEY are always telling everyone what they should think! You may sweat, itch, live and die without ever having been a part of amateur radio, Len. That isn't causing me any worry. :-) It DOES seem to bother YOU a great deal! Have you sought medical help for your condition? There has never been a fellow with more self-important delusions participating in this newsgroup than Leonard H. Anderson, non-participant in amateur radio. Now, now, don't put yourself and Miccolis down so much. Either one of you are much more self-important than I. It is and has been repeated by you two in here for years. Did you know that "radio" is used in OTHER radio services and by the military and government of the USA? Really. "Amateur radio" isn't the sole user of radio. Really. You don't give orders here, Leonard. Jawhol! Gruss Gott herr Kommandant! click heels in acknowledgement You weren't a radio amateur before Jim was born and you haven't become one since Jim was born. Who is "Jim?" Is he the one cranking that rusty organ? Tsk, tsk, and doing that in public view, too!! You're irrelevant to amateur radio. So you keep saying! Well, say it enough times and maybe someone besides this "Jim" will believe you. That's the spirit of using the "Big Lie" technique of propaganda. Along comes Major Hoople to stand on the sidewalk and tell us how amateur radio should be regulated. Who is this "Major Hoople?" I don't know any "Major Hoople." You say he was in the newspaper comic strips? I never saw that strip. Did you have it mixed up with Hal Foster's "Prince Valiant?" Or Milton Caniff's "Terry and the Pirates?" "The Katzenjammer Kids?" I know of a "Major Bowes" who used to host an old, old radio broadcast show called "Major Bowes' Amateur Hour." The few times I heard that did not include anything about radio amateurs. I didn't listen to it much, so maybe other airings of that program had something about amateur radio? Your comfort is usenet, Leonard. It is? I don't think so. My comfort is my wife, a nice home (two of them, debt free), good food, good health, and a nice collection of money earned at a profession I've chosen and enjoyed in my working career. Others' mileage obviously varies... You've found a place where you can tell those upstart radio amateurs about your glory days of fifty-plus years ago. "Glory days?" Nah. Just a citizen volunteering for military service, serving and doing what he was told to do. Your organ grinding master never did that. Anyone can see it at: http://sujan.hallikainen.org/Broadca...s/My3Years.pdf About 6 MB file size, may take 18 minutes download on a dial-up connection. 20 pages, lots of photos, mostly ones I took. You can expound on your past working years, describe your northern and southern homes, tell folks about your car and prescribe sage advice about horizontally mounted loops, shielded with Reynolds Wrap (coaxial cable must have been in short supply). I can? Oh, my, you said at the beginning that I COULDN'T! Please make up your mind. The late-1960s horizontal loop was an experiment that didn't work out too well. Too much inductance, too many turns of wire...with too much inductance the resonating capacity was too small to allow fixed tuning at 60 KHz. A later version used 55 turns of #14 THHN insulation electric power wire (solid) on a 2 1/2-foot circular form (again for 60 KHz, the carrier frequency of WWVB out of Ft. Collins, CO), wrapped with twine and varnished. That was wrapped with aluminum foil for an electrostatic shield, not a continuous connection. That was wrapped in more twine and varnished three times. Two 10-foot 75 Ohm "TV cable" sections were connected to it in balanced configuration, the two coax cables' ground at the center-tap. The cable capacity makes up part of the 60 KHz resonant tuning, final trimming done by a 2-section "BC band" variable capacitor. Input below the vertically-oriented loop is to a differential FET source-follower pair to a voltage-controlled-gain differential amplifier. Oriented NE towards Ft. Collins, it provides a good signal from WWVB which is then limited as well as mildly bandpass filtered. The limiter output provides a fairly steady carrier at 60 KHz which feeds a phase-frequency-detector comparing a 60 KHz quartz-crystal oscillator which is electronically trimmed through the PLL loop filter (time-constant about 2 seconds) so that the crystal oscillator remains in phase with the WWVB carrier. Overall receiving bandwidth is narrower than 0.5 Hz so the equivalent signal-to-noise ratio is high. A second PLL uses the 60 KHz crystal oscillator as reference to compare the 10 MHz time-base oscillator of a frequency counter, both divided down to 1 Second period for the second phase- frequency detector. That way I am always assured of an accurate frequency counter reading good to better than 100 Parts Per Billion (not Million). Note: The "receiver" (a basic TRF configuration) is held stabilized in a slow-speed AGC loop with a small meter readout of carrier level. Limiter action is about 55 db compression so the AGC loop turned out to be redundant. The observed maximum-to-minimum signal strength from WWVB (about 1 KMile distant) has been less than 10 db (in power) during about two years of use. This is less than the predicted variations published by NIST on their time- frequency pages at www.nist.gov. Observed transients and noise at the limiter output from all other electrical sources in the household are no more than about -30 dbm of minimum received carrier level. Internal DC supply is double and triple series-regulated to obtain +12 and +5 VDC operating voltages. I may add a battery-backup inside the 1/10th cubic foot enclosure later to replace the external small UPS. It would be nice to compare the 10 KHz internal divider signal agains a rubidium oscillator standard in the future. Right now I am satisfied with the accuracy checked in several other ways, no need for doing an Allan Variance. Thanks for asking... |
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