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

Len Over 21 wrote:

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 keep trying to make this about a group of people. It isn't. It is
about you.

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.

No, I haven't made fun of the Army. You keep trying to involve others.
It is about you.

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.

No, the Army isn't involved. There's only you.

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.

Neither the Army nor the Department of State has anything to do with
this.
There's only you.

You MAKE FUN of professionals in the firield of electronics because
you consider your amateur status as "better" than professionals.

Not at all. I spent a career as a profession in the "firield" of
electronics. My professional career and my decades as a radio amateur
are not linked. As a radio amateur, I never thought I was better than
myself as a professional. But enough of this, the issue is you. While
you worked as a professional in radio, you've never been a part of
amateur radio.

All you can do, besides gabble about NON-radio subjects in here, is
to MAKE FUN of anyone you disagree with.

Wrong again, Mr. One Track. This isn't about "anyone I disagree with".
It is about you, Leonard H. Anderson, self-proclaimed advocate for
something-or-other in amateur radio.

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.

Check your wayback machine, Len. It has been well in excess of six
years.
You come off as pompous and condescending. You'd like to convince us
that no one here can possibly know as much as you about radio. You'd
have us believe that we should accept your view of how amateur radio
should be regulated, yet you aren't a part of amateur radio at all.
That and you're easy to humiliate.

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.

We can always count on you for a laugh, kindly old pirhana. Tell us how
you conduct yourself and why you so frequently draw fire.

You are an amateur extra, a shining role model for the amateur
community.

And you are not. You're not a Novice. Your'e not a Tech. You're not a
General. You're not an Advanced. You aren't a participant.

Shrug. Not good for the amateur image to make others be like you.

How would you know? You aren't involved.

Dave K8MN

"Brian Kelly" wrote in message
om...
If ya just *gotta* do a pileup however NEVER jump right in if yer a
Little Dawg: Get a quick grip on his modus operandi. Use both of yer
VFOs. Find the guy who just worked him and call him up 500Hz. Or
whatever game he's playing that seems to work. Smarts, stealth and
treachery beats kilowatts every time.

Sometimes.


Yup and sometimes the "pileup" melts away and there are major lulls. So I
just note the frequency and keep checking back periodically. Snagged the
Ivory Coast that way.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

In article , Dave Heil
writes:

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.

Why not? Is the Tech written too difficult for him to pass?

He is Leonard H. Anderson

How do you know? Have you actually met him or otherwise verified his identity?

I could claim to be a lady with red hair on this newsgroup - how would you know
I am not?

Reminds me of a PHC joke:

Two penguins are in Antartica.
One penguin says to the other: "You look like you're wearing a tuxedo"
The other penguin replies "How do you know I'm not?"

but he shouldn't be confused with Leonard H. Anderson WA6HKH of
Montana, whose views are quoted in this month's issue of "CQ".

I did see that but WA6HKH's address was given as Sun City or Sun Valley or some
such in California.

There's certainly no cause for concern or alarm.

I did not think there was.

73 de Jim, N2EY

N2EY wrote:

In article , Dave Heil
writes:

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.

Why not? Is the Tech written too difficult for him to pass?

It might be that or it might be that his decades-long interest in
amateur radio is a sham.

He is Leonard H. Anderson

How do you know? Have you actually met him or otherwise verified his identity?

My feeling is that an imposter wouldn't have revealed so many easily
verifiable claims such as previous workplaces, address and the like.

I could claim to be a lady with red hair on this newsgroup - how would you know
I am not?

Good point, though if Len has the red hair, I feel confident that he has
the red rubber nose and shoes to go with it.

Reminds me of a PHC joke:

Two penguins are in Antartica.
One penguin says to the other: "You look like you're wearing a tuxedo"
The other penguin replies "How do you know I'm not?"

but he shouldn't be confused with Leonard H. Anderson WA6HKH of
Montana, whose views are quoted in this month's issue of "CQ".

I did see that but WA6HKH's address was given as Sun City or Sun Valley or some
such in California.

He must be a highly mobile individual. The RAC lists him as in Montana.

There's certainly no cause for concern or alarm.

I did not think there was.

My guess is that the man is one of those who can clear a bar by simply
walking in and taking a seat.

Dave K8MN

Brian Kelly wrote:

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??

It was good training for the Foreign Service days ahead. Unpack
everything, put up the antennas, operate for two or three years, take
down the antennas, pack everything, move to a new location, unpack
everything, put up the antennas...

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?

Indeed they did and they paid to move it a bunch of times.

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.

Most of the U.S. machines are now much better than those made a couple
of decades back. You'll find a few Q-ships though. The Pontiac Vibe,
for example, is a Toyota.

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.

We have some of both but they are usually self-removed from the gene
pool.
Unfortunately, they often take others with them.

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.

The past couple of winters it hasn't been uncommon to come home at night
to find twenty or thirty of the critters on our place. They've even
bedded down right around the perimeter of the house.

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.

The guest room is comfy. The futon is twelve feet from the rig.

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.

Reminds me of OH2BH's classic tale of the Russian EMP-proof cellular
phone. It was all vacuum tubes and took up the trunk of a car.

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.

I heard one of your ops calling LU2EWL on 10m yesterday.

Dave K8MN

(Brian Kelly) wrote in message . com...

Smarts, stealth and
treachery beats kilowatts every time.

Sometimes.

LOL! I'd say "usually", Brian! But I usually do exactly what you
suggested...Find the last guy's spot, then go up or down a bit.
Sometimes it's a matter of finding out if they are starting high and
dropping down, starting low and tuning up, or "rocking chair", going
up and down between...

73

Steve, K4YZ

In article , PAMNO
(N2EY) writes:

There's certainly no cause for concern or alarm.

I did not think there was.

There you have it.

No worries.

Keep your morse up. Use morse viagra.

In article , Dave Heil
writes:


You are an amateur extra, a shining role model for the amateur
community.

And you are not. You're not a Novice. Your'e not a Tech. You're not a
General. You're not an Advanced. You aren't a participant.

I am an electronics engineer, working for pecuniary interest, but no
longer at regular hours. I am also a hobbyist without pecuniary
compensation.

I've been involved with radio and electronics, both with and without
pecuniary interest since 1947.

I am not a ham. I have a beef with certain U.S. government laws.

You keep fishing for trolls and aren't taking your meds.


How would you know? You aren't involved.

Right. U.S. amateur radio is a SECRET, classified service which NO
outsider can possibly know about, therefore no one can comment
unless they have an amateur license.

Right. NOBODY can become involved unless they are already involved.

Right. In order to "show interest in radio," everyone has to learn morse
code and get a ham license. It is impossible to have any "interest" in
radio through a working career in radio or electronics. The ham license
is absolutely mandatory "to show interest in radio." Right.

Right. The First Amendment of the United States Constitution states
that no citizen can comment about any amateur radio regulations unless
they already possess an amateur radio license. Right.

I am so glad you "explained" all of those things. [it's like LOTR code]

Has the ARRL approached you for more hints in generating interest in
getting "interested in radio" as you've outlined in here?

No? That's so interesting.

In article , PAMNO
(N2EY) writes:

There's certainly no cause for concern or alarm.

I did not think there was.

There you have it.

No worries.

Keep your morse up. Use morse viagra.