Brian Kelly wrote:

Dave Heil wrote in message ...
Brian Kelly wrote:

Dunno where I got the notion it was on the Kentucky side of the crick.

You're likely thinking of the old WCKY at 1530 on the dial. It is now
WSAI which was at 1360. Confusing enough for you? WCKY was owned by
L.B. Wilson, a Kentuckian and the call stood for W Covington KentuckY.
Transmitters are on a hilltop overlooking Covington and the studios are
in downtown Cincinnati.

Probably, I do remember seeing BC towers on a hill near Covington.
Maybe that is where my confusion started. Usta run up and down 75 to
Lexington and Danville. Made Danville to the airport in two hours flat
on one occasion by golly.

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. 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.

Dad tried a couple of Buicks but has owned a number of Merc Grand
Marquis Limiteds over the last couple of decades.

Barge pilot huh? Pop has a USCG Master's ticket?

You know the drill: Mom feels "safer" in the big car.

Went to the local Enterpise vehicle rental store a bit back, told 'em
I wanted the cheapest set of wheels they had for a week. Like the
$10/day Metro three-banger they'd been hyping. One thing led to
another, I wound up with some monster Pontiac for the price of the
three-banger. Talk about "road shock" . . I'll spare ya my thoughts
when I first squeezed the beast into a parking slot at my favorite
food emporium. Tried to. When I turned it back in a week later I still
hadn't found out what a third of the stupid bottons in the thing were
supposed to do. Maybe Ralph Nader was right after all.

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'm a small car guy.
I'm now on my third Dodge Neon, this one is bright yellow and has a
spoiler.

Yoicks . . . ! Didja install the mandatory resonator on the tailpipe
yet?

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'm big on small cars too, gots me a silly little 4 dr. '96
Chebby/Suzuki/Metro Geo w/150k miles on it. I keep telling myself I
really oughta get one for the other foot. Managed to blow a piston
last fall, $1,600 engine rebuild by my pet Benz wrench, runs like a
Swiss watch now. 'Cept my nickle-Extra N3 buddy backed his friggin'
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! Just be careful you don't end up with a deer
pasted to the front of it.

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.

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.

Yeah, great start . . I like your National Blue and the brushed SS
panel concept a bunch for openers. Needs to be expanded though.

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.
Breakthrough systems design concept; "widely distributed CW
transceivers".

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.

I'm thinking maybe your National Blue for the front surround and the
SS panel then maybe something like a flip-top transparent blue tinted
plastic cabinet along the lines of an iMac so that everybody could
actually see how it works. Could also include a built-in soldering
station for doing the never-ending mods? And a drawer in which to
store spare eight-pin tube sockets of course.

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.

Sure do. It sits next to the S-40A. The engraved German silver dial is
super looking.

There's some trip bait . . I've always wanted to listen to one of
those '30s rcvrs but never had the oportunity.

My HRO is the mechanical marvel but for performance,

Nice old boat anchors, great dial mechanisms. I used an HRO 50 when I
took the graveyard shift on 40M in my first-ever contest, a
neighborhood club Field Day exercise. Smooooth tuning.

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

If we talk about the modern era, I'm
partial to the 75A-3 (modified to A-4 with the Universal Radio product
detector) for the ham bands

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.

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!

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

(N2EY) wrote in message ...
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.

That's why you get the back deck.

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....

No thanks, I'd rather travel in my car.

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, like Audrey Hepburn.

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....

How many did it make last year?

My Type 75A4/T4XB did 1,000-1,200 several times in the CQ WW CW. And
you . . ?

"Anybody who says size doesn't matter never had a really big one".

SPARE us!

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.....

There ya go Dave, the four foot rack will work.

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.

Better at what?

The Type 7 uses a cap from a junked BC-221. The Type 6 and 5 used caps from
ARC-5 transmitters.

Dayum, another N2EY stroke of genius. And here all us no-clues been
using these synthesizer thingeys, tsk, tsk, shame on us.

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.

Anybody who doesn't know what knobs are for is a sick pup.

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.

The cord is a no-brainer, it's the female 8 or 11 pin plug or whatever
it is which is problem.

Got rid of all my Johnson gear, though (sniff). Adventurer, Viking 2 with 122,
Valiant.

Good riddance, they're probably doing splendidly on 27 Mhz by now.


73 de Jim, N2EY

w3rv

In article ,
(Brian Kelly) writes:

(N2EY) wrote in message
...
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.

That's why you get the back deck.

"Fire in the hole!"

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....

No thanks, I'd rather travel in my car.

HAW!

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, like Audrey Hepburn.

How'd you know she was one of my favorites?

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....

How many did it make last year?

About 300 in SS, in a half-hearted effort.

My Type 75A4/T4XB did 1,000-1,200 several times in the CQ WW CW.

Sure - with ten times the power and big antennas, in a contest twice as long as
SS or FD.
With all the comforts of home and a spotting net......

And you . . ?

DX isn't my bag. Domestic contests are. One of the Barracuda Rules is that you
don't
try to beat the other guy at his game, you get him to play your game.

"Anybody who says size doesn't matter never had a really big one".

SPARE us!

How many you put in the log for 'RS?

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.....

There ya go Dave, the four foot rack will work.

Twice over.

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.

Better at what?

Better at mechanical dials.

The Type 7 uses a cap from a junked BC-221. The Type 6 and 5 used caps from
ARC-5 transmitters.

Dayum, another N2EY stroke of genius.

You betcha, cost me maybe $5 for the whole VFO assembly. Including spares.

And here all us no-clues been
using these synthesizer thingeys, tsk, tsk, shame on us.

You had a synthesizer in 1972?

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.

Anybody who doesn't know what knobs are for is a sick pup.

Exactly. I have each one's functions memorized. Plus they are ergonomically
designed. No fatigue after hours of use.

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.

The cord is a no-brainer, it's the female 8 or 11 pin plug or whatever
it is which is problem.

Count the pins and let me know, I have both. Plus the hoods and the clamps and
more line cords than I can remember. 2 wire, 3 wire, whatever.

Just as long as they're not the oddball 9 pin ones that EFJ used. Those things
are so rare that some owners have actually hacked into and modified their
Johnsons to mate with less unusual devices.

Got rid of all my Johnson gear, though (sniff). Adventurer, Viking 2 with
122, Valiant.

Good riddance, they're probably doing splendidly on 27 Mhz by now.

Not at all. The Adventurer doesn't work 'phone, the Vikings (I had 2) went to a
ham pal, and the Valiant went to an AMer.

The one Viking 2 was used to make my one-and-only 160 QSO. But that's another
story....

73 de Jim, N2EY

N2EY wrote:

In article ,
(Brian Kelly) writes:

(N2EY) wrote in message
...
In article , Dave Heil

writes:


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.....

There ya go Dave, the four foot rack will work.

Twice over.

You need room for mods and future additions. Don't forget ventilation.
You need plenty of ventilation.


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.

The cord is a no-brainer, it's the female 8 or 11 pin plug or whatever
it is which is problem.

Count the pins and let me know, I have both. Plus the hoods and the clamps and
more line cords than I can remember. 2 wire, 3 wire, whatever.

He needs a standard 11 pin female socket (no mounting flanges) with
hood.

Dave K8MN

PAMNO (N2EY) wrote in message ...
In article ,
(Brian Kelly) writes:

(N2EY) wrote in message

Miniature is for poodles.

Yeah, like Audrey Hepburn.

How'd you know she was one of my favorites?

Your bio is in the members-only Bowling Team Captains website, they
know EVERYTHING about yew boy.

How many FD QSOs you make so far with the little stuff? The Type 7 did 629
one year....

How many did it make last year?

About 300 in SS, in a half-hearted effort.

SOP for SS . .

My Type 75A4/T4XB did 1,000-1,200 several times in the CQ WW CW.

Sure - with ten times the power

Lemmee know when you run into an SB-200 which does any such thing.
Maybe 450 watts out on a dry cold day. Max.

and big antennas, in a contest twice as long as
SS or FD.
With all the comforts of home and a spotting net......

In a contest which is an order of magnitude tougher than SS never mind
silly FD. Radio picnic.

DX isn't my bag. Domestic contests are. One of the Barracuda Rules is that you
don't
try to beat the other guy at his game, you get him to play your game.

Pretty lame excuse for an excuse Micollis.


How many you put in the log for 'RS?

None on my own. Turned out that more ops showed up than expected, five
plus me which rendered me surplus labor. They all know the logger
inside out which I don't know so I got attached to the primary run
station as it's second set of ears. On 20 & 40 with the legendary
W8FJ, incredible op that he is. 200/Hr rates no sweat. Name of my game
was to dredge callsigns up out of the muck when he didn't. Worked but
he didn't miss many. OhYeah, I got the dust knocked off my skills BIG
time! Which is the bottom-line reason I tripped to Glenmoore to burrow
in with this bunch. Mission accomplished. In spades.

Two-station HP category, 6,000+ q's, 11.3 meg, missed a one-weekend
5BDXCC by one lousy mult on 80. Howzatt for a shot at a "Clean Sweep"
eh? The big Q bands were 40 and 15. Well over 100 mults on 10M sunspot
counts be damned.

Went on after the 'test, Sig fired up on 3.830 immediately after the
closing bell to find out who beat who while we gnawed on steak
sammiches Mrs. Sig supplied. The Big Guns from all the clubs were on
freq, looney operation, guys jumped in with CW instead of SSB . . .
helluva lot of fun, all of it.

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.....

There ya go Dave, the four foot rack will work.

Twice over.

Until ya add the "transverters" for 160, 60, 30, 17, 15, 12 and 10M
which the thing cannot get on now. Then comes the "modulator" and the
serial port which it doesn't have either . . Yeah, Dave. We'll need
plenty of cubic feet for this abomination.

And by the way Dave the dial in the thing is the rim of a plastic soup
bowl. Absolute truth, so help me.

The Type 7 uses a cap from a junked BC-221. The Type 6 and 5 used caps from
ARC-5 transmitters.

Dayum, another N2EY stroke of genius.

You betcha, cost me maybe $5 for the whole VFO assembly. Including spares.

Ya obviously got screwed.

And here all us no-clues been
using these synthesizer thingeys, tsk, tsk, shame on us.

You had a synthesizer in 1972?

Hell no, but you still have a 1920s style "VFO" and the rest of us do
not.

Anybody who doesn't know what knobs are for is a sick pup.

Exactly. I have each one's functions memorized. Plus they are ergonomically
designed.

Whoosh: Right over yer head.

No fatigue after hours of use.

I doubt that!

Got rid of all my Johnson gear, though (sniff). Adventurer, Viking 2 with
122, Valiant.

Good riddance, they're probably doing splendidly on 27 Mhz by now.

Not at all. The Adventurer doesn't work 'phone, the Vikings (I had 2) went to a
ham pal, and the Valiant went to an AMer.

Yeah, yeah. I sold my Valiant to a ham and he went home and
immediately ran it into his 4 el. 11M quad.

The one Viking 2 was used to make my one-and-only 160 QSO. But that's another
story....

Good, enough awready . .

73 de Jim, N2EY

w3rv

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(Brian Kelly) writes:

(N2EY) wrote in message
...
In article ,

(Brian Kelly) writes:

(N2EY) wrote in message

Miniature is for poodles.

Yeah, like Audrey Hepburn.

How'd you know she was one of my favorites?

Your bio is in the members-only Bowling Team Captains website, they
know EVERYTHING about yew boy.

Not quite everyhting, but close enough.

How many FD QSOs you make so far with the little stuff? The Type 7 did
629 one year....

How many did it make last year?

About 300 in SS, in a half-hearted effort.

SOP for SS . .

Yup. This little puppy knows better than to run with the big dogs.

My Type 75A4/T4XB did 1,000-1,200 several times in the CQ WW CW.

Sure - with ten times the power

Lemmee know when you run into an SB-200 which does any such thing.
Maybe 450 watts out on a dry cold day. Max.

KW in and 450 W out...sigh...

and big antennas, in a contest twice as long as
SS or FD.
With all the comforts of home and a spotting net......

In a contest which is an order of magnitude tougher than SS never mind
silly FD. Radio picnic.

Maybe when *you* do it...

DX isn't my bag. Domestic contests are. One of the Barracuda Rules is that
you don't try to beat the other guy at his game, you get him to play your
game.

Pretty lame excuse for an excuse Micollis.

I got it from you. You made how many QSOs last FD?

How many you put in the log for 'RS?

None on my own. Turned out that more ops showed up than expected, five
plus me which rendered me surplus labor. They all know the logger
inside out which I don't know so I got attached to the primary run
station as it's second set of ears. On 20 & 40 with the legendary
W8FJ, incredible op that he is. 200/Hr rates no sweat. Name of my game
was to dredge callsigns up out of the muck when he didn't. Worked but
he didn't miss many. OhYeah, I got the dust knocked off my skills BIG
time! Which is the bottom-line reason I tripped to Glenmoore to burrow
in with this bunch. Mission accomplished. In spades.

I thought so!

Two-station HP category, 6,000+ q's, 11.3 meg, missed a one-weekend
5BDXCC by one lousy mult on 80. Howzatt for a shot at a "Clean Sweep"
eh?

Nice!

The big Q bands were 40 and 15. Well over 100 mults on 10M sunspot
counts be damned.

Tells ya sumthin. But the Final Authority wannabes tell us nobody uses Morse
anymore...

Went on after the 'test, Sig fired up on 3.830 immediately after the
closing bell to find out who beat who while we gnawed on steak
sammiches Mrs. Sig supplied. The Big Guns from all the clubs were on
freq, looney operation, guys jumped in with CW instead of SSB . . .
helluva lot of fun, all of it.

Dogpile!

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.....

There ya go Dave, the four foot rack will work.

Twice over.

Until ya add the "transverters" for 160, 60, 30, 17, 15, 12 and 10M
which the thing cannot get on now.

Don't need mosta those bands anyway.

Then comes the "modulator" and the
serial port which it doesn't have either

Don't need those either.

. . Yeah, Dave. We'll need
plenty of cubic feet for this abomination.

And by the way Dave the dial in the thing is the rim of a plastic soup
bowl. Absolute truth, so help me.

Absolute lie. The Type 4 had a cereal bowl dial - but it was built more than 30
years ago. It was taken apart some time ago and its parts recycled.

The Type 7 uses a cap from a junked BC-221. The Type 6 and 5 used caps
from ARC-5 transmitters.

Dayum, another N2EY stroke of genius.

You betcha, cost me maybe $5 for the whole VFO assembly. Including spares.

Ya obviously got screwed.

Better'n some lame 5 to 1 slippy balldrive thing. Swords into plowshares,
anyway.

And here all us no-clues been
using these synthesizer thingeys, tsk, tsk, shame on us.

You had a synthesizer in 1972?

Hell no, but you still have a 1920s style "VFO" and the rest of us do
not.

Simple yet effective. Did someone say "phase noise"?

Anybody who doesn't know what knobs are for is a sick pup.

Exactly. I have each one's functions memorized. Plus they are ergonomically
designed.

Whoosh: Right over yer head.

Not at all. Each knob has a definite function, and despite the obvious
similarities each requires different treatment. A lesson which also applies to
radio.

No fatigue after hours of use.

I doubt that!

I'm still young.

Got rid of all my Johnson gear, though (sniff). Adventurer, Viking 2
with 122, Valiant.

Good riddance, they're probably doing splendidly on 27 Mhz by now.

Not at all. The Adventurer doesn't work 'phone, the Vikings (I had 2) went
to a ham pal, and the Valiant went to an AMer.

Yeah, yeah. I sold my Valiant to a ham and he went home and
immediately ran it into his 4 el. 11M quad.

That was a bit longer ago than I sold mine.

The one Viking 2 was used to make my one-and-only 160 QSO. But that's
another story....

Good, enough awready . .

Like it ever stopped *you*...

73 de Jim, N2EY

PAMNO (N2EY) wrote in message ...
In article ,
(Brian Kelly) writes:

In a contest which is an order of magnitude tougher than SS never mind
silly FD. Radio picnic.

Maybe when *you* do it...

Go ahead, keep pushing yer luck . .

DX isn't my bag. Domestic contests are. One of the Barracuda Rules is that
you don't try to beat the other guy at his game, you get him to play your
game.

Pretty lame excuse for an excuse Micollis.

I got it from you. You made how many QSOs last FD?

I had equipment FUBARS, I did not wimp out because I was afraid to
take on "your game".

The big Q bands were 40 and 15. Well over 100 mults on 10M sunspot
counts be damned.

Tells ya sumthin. But the Final Authority wannabes tell us nobody uses Morse
anymore...

Pfft . . ! Lotta BS, the reality is obvious.

Until ya add the "transverters" for 160, 60, 30, 17, 15, 12 and 10M
which the thing cannot get on now.

Don't need mosta those bands anyway.

Then comes the "modulator" and the
serial port which it doesn't have either

Don't need those either.

Take that line of rationalizations out to it's obvious limit and ya
don't "need" a ham license either.


And by the way Dave the dial in the thing is the rim of a plastic soup
bowl. Absolute truth, so help me.

Absolute lie. The Type 4 had a cereal bowl dial - but it was built more than 30
years ago. It was taken apart some time ago and its parts recycled.

Abject apologies, I got yer abominations mixed up. Where did you get
the digital display for the S8?

You betcha, cost me maybe $5 for the whole VFO assembly. Including spares.

Ya obviously got screwed.

Better'n some lame 5 to 1 slippy balldrive thing. Swords into plowshares,
anyway.

Ever hear the terms "shaft encoder" or "PTO"?

Hell no, but you still have a 1920s style "VFO" and the rest of us do
not.

Simple yet effective. Did someone say "phase noise"?

Glad you brought that up. One of my objectives over the weekend was to
sniff out a whole list of ponderments I had on these sorts of topics.
Phase noise: Close to the end of the 'test on 40M the amp T/R relay
hung a couple times and I got to listen to the MP sans antenna. If the
weak hiss was in fact phase noise it was probably 20 dB. down from the
base QRN noise level in the band. Lesson: Given a decent radio phase
noise is never going to be the limiting factor in weak signal
reception anywhere around where thee or me live so fugeddit, yer VFO
is not a "solution" for some "phase noise problem".

Other pins they stuck in sacred balloons:

They don't use QSK, PTT works just fine.
The AGC is always ON.

73 de Jim, N2EY

w3rv

Dave Heil wrote in message ...
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

"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