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Loon Over 21 wrote:
In article , Dave Heil writes: Jim, Are you forwarding these messages via LHA's home version of ADA? ADA is the callsign of Headquarters, United States Army Pacific, Fort Shafter, Hawaii. That callsign has been active since 1946 and in continuous use all this time, connected with area command headquarters in the Pacific region. Why do you insist on making fun of the United States Army? Oh, you simply misunderstood once again. I wasn't poking fun at the Army. I was poking fun at you personally, Leonard. Dave K8MN |
In article , Dave Heil
writes: I have a half side of beef in the freezer, your choice of beverage, a comfy guest room and plenty of radio gear. I'll bring the hot sauce. They don't call it "Total Insanity" for nothing. If you talk 'EY into coming, you guys can fight to see who gets the futon in the shack overflow room. I got an air mattress for travel.... I keep wondering how she'd "restyle" N2EY's Southgate 7 contraption . aw geez... I see it in a National 60's blue wrinkle cabinet with satin stainless panel. There'd be no miniaturization with plenty of room for mods. Miniature is for poodles. Yeah, great start . . I like your National Blue and the brushed SS panel concept a bunch for openers. Needs to be expanded though. Too fruity for me. Jim's obvious genius being that he's managed to come up with a 100W 80/40/20 CW xcvr which is spread across two whole shelves. Anybody can make 'em small. I make 'em GOOD. How many FD QSOs you make so far with the little stuff? The Type 7 did 629 one year.... Breakthrough systems design concept; "widely distributed CW transceivers". It's called "modular design". The cat's meow. About as counter-miniturization as it gets right? So he's already ingeniously solved that one. As a matter of policy I submit that we should concentrate on just the packaging problem and let him handle the "engineering". He is, after all, the group MSEE. "Anybody who says size doesn't matter never had a really big one". I understand, now that you've 'splained it to me. We could use a four-foot rack, turned on its side. That's going to be one expensive stainless panel. Fits in a two-footer vertically with room to spare..... My HRO is the mechanical marvel but for performance, Nice old boat anchors, great dial mechanisms. Ugh. Ten turns to cover the band? Puhleeze, I did better in high school. The Type 7 uses a cap from a junked BC-221. The Type 6 and 5 used caps from ARC-5 transmitters. Swords into plowshares..... I'd have to say that the RME-69 has it beat. You got a 69 too??! Yeah--with 5 and 10m converter, and also from the same era an FB-7 and an SW-3. http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~postr/bapix/RME69.html I copied one feature from RME: they didn't label much on the panel. They said if you didn't know what the knobs did you shouldn't be using the set. THAT's the one Collins rcvr I'd love to have. I have a meatball S3-B but I'm gonna dump it. Needs a power cord. Which is a minor pain in the butt job, need to dredge up a chassis plug. Talk to me! I probably have a plug that will work. And a line cord. Etc. Got rid of all my Johnson gear, though (sniff). Adventurer, Viking 2 with 122, Valiant. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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Brian Kelly wrote: Cincinnati, like Rome, is built on seven hills. There are a number of other hills on the Kentucky shore. Most of 'em have radio towers. I operated from four spots during my days in the area: As WB4KTR/8, I was a block off the U.C. campus on top of the hill in an area called Clifton. I had no tower but was able to put a mast on top of the three storey commercial building. I moved across the river to Fort Thomas in '74 and operated from atop the hill in that town with a tribander on a 40' push-up mast. Site three was in Mt. Airy, across the road from a nice, quiet 1600 acre city forest. I used a 60 foot tower there. Finally, I moved to the west side of the city to Cheviot. Jeez. Didja ever get to completely unpack?? That same 60 footer was used there and was then hauled around the world. There are still tower bases for that one in the ground in Botswana and Tanzania. The tower stayed in Dar es Salaam. The embassy now uses it for a repeater antenna. "World's most traveled tower". Foggy Bottom did pay you for the tower when you left it with 'em right? In a tale similar to yours, we came back to the U.S. from Helsinki in the late 90's and ended up with a Pontiac Grand Am. I was underwhelmed with the underpowered, poor-handling beast. I gave up on Detroit iron 20 years ago and I haven't run across any particularly good reasons to go back. Naw, all stock. I stop using the performance tires when the factory rubber gives up the ghost. It doesn't matter which tires I buy, the twisty, hilly roads hereabouts make certain that I get only about 25,000 miles on them as the outside corners get worn down. I have some West Virginny time under my belt, I understand the "hills" and the driving condx. A month in the coal mines in the Bluefield area working an accident expert witness job was one of my "tours". Very different part of the world when it comes to driving. And everything else for that matter vs. here. Not a place for timid or anal drivers. monster Freightliner Classic into the rear end of my nice little Geo and "reconfigured" a bit of sheet metal . . Back to the Benz shop . . red body, green trunk deck and the rest is still in primer. It'll fit right in here! Heeee! Just be careful you don't end up with a deer pasted to the front of it. I'm tuned, we have monstrous herds of the things close at hand right here, we do some *serious* deer-ducking too. At 60 mph on four-lane divided highways. Dunno if I can trust it to make Wheeling & vicinity and back or not but I'm seriously mulling that prospect come the warmer winds of the days ahead. I figger if I gotta thumb it back home on the PA tpk. I might as well do it when it's warmer. I have a half side of beef in the freezer, your choice of beverage, a comfy guest room and plenty of radio gear. If you talk 'EY into coming, you guys can fight to see who gets the futon in the shack overflow room. He gets the back deck, I get the guest room. I keep wondering how she'd "restyle" N2EY's Southgate 7 contraption . . I see it in a National 60's blue wrinkle cabinet with satin stainless panel. There'd be no miniaturization with plenty of room for mods. OK, so it would be about the size of a steamer trunk and it would need castors to be able move it about . . details, details . . don't bore me with stupid details, "I'm a concept guy . . " I understand, now that you've 'splained it to me. We could use a four-foot rack, turned on its side. That's going to be one expensive stainless panel. This is gonna be a class radio, right up there with the IC-7800, cost in NO object. I'd have to say that the RME-69 has it beat. You got a 69 too??! Yeah--with 5 and 10m converter, and also from the same era an FB-7 and an SW-3. Boy that's a real keeper, lotta WW2 history wrapped around that one. I'm partial to the 75A4 myself, I had one for years which had the W2VCZ front end mods. Best 160/80/40 RX out there until rigs like that later 940s finally came along. Great receiver though the current pricing is too rich for my blood. Mine suffered a horrible demise, I doan wanna hear what they're worth today! and the 51S-1 for general coverage. THAT's the one Collins rcvr I'd love to have. I have a meatball S3-B but I'm gonna dump it. Needs a power cord. Which is a minor pain in the butt job, need to dredge up a chassis plug. Talk to me! Eventually. Bigger priorities are looming for now. I'm gonna spend a few hours running with the big dawgs this weekend as a reality check, third op at the N3RS baby multi in the ARRL CW DX blast. Haven't done one of these for a quarter century, this is gonna be UGLY. Dave K8MN w3rv |
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In article , Dave Heil
writes: Loon Over 21 wrote: In article , Dave Heil writes: Jim, Are you forwarding these messages via LHA's home version of ADA? ADA is the callsign of Headquarters, United States Army Pacific, Fort Shafter, Hawaii. That callsign has been active since 1946 and in continuous use all this time, connected with area command headquarters in the Pacific region. Why do you insist on making fun of the United States Army? Oh, you simply misunderstood once again. I wasn't poking fun at the Army. I was poking fun at you personally, Leonard. You consistently poke fun at anyone who opposes your opinions... save on NON-radio discussions in here which have nothing to do with any policy subjects. You MAKE FUN of the United States Army because a veteran of that service branch was assigned to ADA for three years and did not kiss your [expletive deleted] godhood in reverence. You MAKE FUN of the United States Army because they and the other branches dropped morse code for fixed-point to fixed-point communications back in 1948. You MAKE FUN of the United States Army because they had HF radio facilities a half century ago that makes the entirety of the United States Department of State look puny in re communications. You MAKE FUN of professionals in the firield of electronics because you consider your amateur status as "better" than professionals. All you can do, besides gabble about NON-radio subjects in here, is to MAKE FUN of anyone you disagree with. Your "fun" is really a pathetic attempt at humiliation which does not have the effect you desire. It did not six years ago and does not do so now. You don't, or can't discuss any policy subject at length, only call those who disagree with you names and try to insult them. You are an amateur extra, a shining role model for the amateur community. Shrug. Not good for the amateur image to make others be like you. LHA / WMD |
"Brian Kelly" wrote in message om... I'm gonna spend a few hours running with the big dawgs this weekend as a reality check, third op at the N3RS baby multi in the ARRL CW DX blast. Haven't done one of these for a quarter century, this is gonna be UGLY. I am definitely note a "big dawg" but having fun. Picked up a couple of new DX countries while I was at it. However I've heard several that I'd like to get with pileups just to big for me to break (Oman, Ivory Coast and some others). Oh well maybe I'll get lucky sometime this weekend. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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In article , Dave Heil
writes: Jim, Are you forwarding these messages via LHA's home version of ADA? Who or what is an "LHA"? Best I can determine, it is similar to a WMD. What has been destroyed? And what does the Americans with Disabilities Act have to do with any of it? According to the "LHA/WMD" sig I've noted, the two may be used interchangeably. I have no idea who you are referring to. What's this person's amateur radio callsign? Why should I be concerned about this person? 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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N2EY wrote:
In article , Dave Heil writes: Jim, Are you forwarding these messages via LHA's home version of ADA? Who or what is an "LHA"? Best I can determine, it is similar to a WMD. What has been destroyed? And what does the Americans with Disabilities Act have to do with any of it? According to the "LHA/WMD" sig I've noted, the two may be used interchangeably. I have no idea who you are referring to. What's this person's amateur radio callsign? Why should I be concerned about this person? This particular individual has no amateur callsign. He is Leonard H. Anderson but he shouldn't be confused with Leonard H. Anderson WA6HKH of Montana, whose views are quoted in this month's issue of "CQ". There's certainly no cause for concern or alarm. Dave K8MN |
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