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Subject: US Licensing Restructuring ??? When ???
From: (William) Date: 10/4/2004 7:14 PM Central Standard Time Message-id: (Steve Robeson K4CAP) wrote in message ... Gosh, I wonder who's running MARS? All of the civilians who happen to have Amateur Radio licenses, DoD runs MARS. For DoD purposes, not Amateur purposes. On MARS frequencies, not on Amateur frequencies. With DoD regulations, not Amateur regulations. Riley has nothing to do with it. Didn't say he did. And without all those Amateurs as "Affiliates", there'd be no MARS. Just MRS. that without, would not be allowed to participate in the program. If the military ran out of amateur radio volunteers, they would open the doors to another volunteer group. MARS would continue. And you know this...How...?!?! SecDef chose you to hold some closely guarded secret...?!?! Or it would fold. There were strong rumors several years ago that it would fold, even though there were plenty of Amateur volunteers. No Amateur Radio = No MARS. Please tell me about third party agreements in MARS. YOU tell ME what 3rd Party agreements have to do with any of this...?!?! Amateur Radio has third party agreements. "MARS IS Amateur Radio ... MARS has third party agreements. So what are they? You tell me, Brain. It's "Brian." It was. Then you started back in with the "Yell DMC/Yell Yell/You're nuts" routine. Now you're back to being "Brain". I kept my side of it up. You couldn't handle yours. You tell me. You're the one making wild-eyed claims that "MARS IS Amateur Radio!" You've still not made a connection. Then you're synapses are not firing. You ARE still quoting out of context. Quoted EXACTLY as you typed it. You are still in denial. You quoted one line out of a several paragraph post wherein I drew an analogy between the spirit of volunteerism in both. You keep thinking you are making a point, but all you are doing is succeeding in proving MY point that that one "line" is all you have to "come at me" with. Pretty lame, but then you ARE the Prince of Lameness. Sucks to be you. OK, if "MARS IS Amateur Radio," and in amateur radio CW is allowed almost everywhere; where is CW allowed on MARS? See the above. MARS is not Amateur Radio. Quoted out of context again. "Sorry Hans, MARS IS Amateur Radio!" Quoted EXACTLY as you typed it. Same one-liner dodge from answering any questions about your own failed misdeeds in Newsgroup Adventuring. See the above. You lied. Nope. Not to you. Not to anyone here. Same putz. Same potty mouth. Nope. You've proved you earned it, Brain. Enjoy it...embrace it...It's yours. Steve, K4YZ |
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In article , Dave Heil
writes: Brian Kelly wrote: Dave Heil wrote in message ... Brian Kelly wrote: That's right, "William", I've got a modified 75A-3 which is about 51 years old, a 51S-1 which was produced in the late seventies and a KWM-2A NICE collection! ...and I saw a fairly priced 75A-4 at the Washington, PA hamfest this morning. I resisted. Woo-woo! Nice piece. What are they going for these days? Well, there's the ebay price and there's the small hamfest price. This one was in pretty good shape and a firm 500 clams. oh mama! Some years back I was tabled next to a guy selling a very nice A4. All the filters, reduction knob, book. $250. I resisted. I still regret it. Ya hafta resist or ya go nuts. I've sworn to myself not to clutter this place up with any boat anchors. I have not taken such a vow. Why resist if you have the space and it gives you pleasure? None. Zero tolerance for boat anchors around here. But then I spot the R4B and the 75S-3B again and remember all the goodies I worked and all the fun I had with them and start to crumble. I need a Boat Anchors Anonymous chapter to help me deal with it but alas, no such thing . . . Go with the flow. It beats collecting Hummel figurines. Send him to my basement for the cure... 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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Dave Heil wrote in message ...
Brian Kelly wrote: ...and I saw a fairly priced 75A-4 at the Washington, PA hamfest this morning. I resisted. Woo-woo! Nice piece. What are they going for these days? Well, there's the ebay price and there's the small hamfest price. This one was in pretty good shape and a firm 500 clams. Without knowing just what A4s have been going for these days $500 seems to be reasonable if it's in decent shape. Ya hafta resist or ya go nuts. I've sworn to myself not to clutter this place up with any boat anchors. I have not taken such a vow. Was not optional in my case. None. Zero tolerance for boat anchors around here. But then I spot the R4B and the 75S-3B again and remember all the goodies I worked and all the fun I had with them and start to crumble. I need a Boat Anchors Anonymous chapter to help me deal with it but alas, no such thing . . . Go with the flow. Depends on what's flowing where. I have health and space problems and was sinking in cubic yards upon cubic yards of up to 50 years worth of CRAP and was almost under when I decided that I had to either take my life back or commit hari-kari. So I spread almost all of my posessions out on an empty 20 x 80 foot floor in the old textile mill I'd haunted since I was a kid. I sorted thru the heap and picked a small pile to save for myself. Then I invited family members and a few others to trash pick the heap before I ordered the dumpster. Micollis got his van load. Then I went berserk and turned myself into a one-man front end loader and up the hill to the landfill the 30 or 40 yard trash container went. In retrospect I probably should have kept some stuff I dumpstered but I'm not losing any sleep over it. I did my kids a favor, they'll dumpster everything which is left anyway when I croak so I've saved them some of that chore .. . like my Quaker school first grade teacher admonished "Know thyself Master Brian!". Yeah, I do know myself, I'm patterned, I'm a compulsive pack rat. That's why I gotta be a hardass and not go back to collecting nice old radios else I'll wind up right back where I was. It beats collecting Hummel figurines. Don't even bring up Hummels David . . the ex is a Hummel freak who has a buddy who was the wife of a G.I. stationed in Germany back when the Hummel craze was barely getting off the ground. Net result being that the ex has some number of 25 gallon fibre barrels fulla the things which she bought with pocket change back then. Gotta be worth big bucks today. Many years later the property settlement was not pretty. She and her idiot lawyer got to nit picking my assets so just to be annoying I told de judge that I wanted to get into splitting up the collection of Hummels. Which she "conveniently" forgot to list as one of her assets of course. At which point my lawyer hissed in my ear, "If you intend to get serious about splitting up a collection of #%X&# Hummels go find another lawyer!". Ahhh! They have a "William" variant. The Orion is available with a built-in antenna tuner. I didn't get that model. Unless it can impedance-match his TV rabbit ears it wouldn't do much for him. Maybe when he wises up and moves . . Or does some planning so that he can put up a decent antenna with adequate safeguards so his kids can't touch it. Per a post of his around here a couple days ago he's trying to be contrite and explained that his antenna problem involves some sort of installation "restrictions". Maybe like CC&Rs or some such, he didn't say . . . "It's all about the chil'ren Whatta weenie . . Or like the guy across the street who bought a 40 inch flatsceen TV "for the chullins" but they're not allowed to use it. You actually disrupted the march around the breakfast table? Yeah, how stupid was that? At least you knew better than to disrupt a bunch of fathers listening to a football game or a boxing match. After I finally got my Novice ticket Pop found out real quick what I was doing to his world so we agreed that I wouln't fire up the 80M ARC-5 on Friday nites while the "Gillette Calvacade of Sports" fights were on the boob tube. The problem I had with Mom ealier however did not involve an "agreement". That could have gotten a whole lot more confrontational. Zed Zainoon W8ENJ, a Lebanese-American screwed up the TV reception at a Moundsville bar close to his home back in the early '50s with his Collins KW-1 AM KW. There was very nearly a lynching. Heeee! Precious moments in ham radio. Let's just say that the tuning wasn't at all critical. Something about decrement, heh heh. Welp the good news was that nobody needed cascaded INRAD filters to find us . . ? Nope. I just adjusting the gap on the doorbell buzzer for maximum noise on the radio. Yessir: Like tuning for max output with an NE-2 or a flourecent tube. To hell with this anal-retentive SWR nonsense. Who invented this BS anyway?? Dave K8MN w3rv |
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(Steve Robeson K4CAP) wrote in message ...
Subject: US Licensing Restructuring ??? When ??? From: (William) Date: 10/4/2004 7:14 PM Central Standard Time Message-id: (Steve Robeson K4CAP) wrote in message ... Gosh, I wonder who's running MARS? All of the civilians who happen to have Amateur Radio licenses, DoD runs MARS. For DoD purposes, not Amateur purposes. On MARS frequencies, not on Amateur frequencies. With DoD regulations, not Amateur regulations. Riley has nothing to do with it. Didn't say he did. You said that "MARS IS Amateur Radio!" Riley is a regulator of Amateur Radio. Therefore Riley is a regulator of MARS. And without all those Amateurs as "Affiliates", there'd be no MARS. Just MRS. Mrs. Robeson? that without, would not be allowed to participate in the program. If the military ran out of amateur radio volunteers, they would open the doors to another volunteer group. MARS would continue. And you know this...How...?!?! The military tends to fill vacancies by changing the qualifications in direct proportion to the number of applicants. Probably how you got into the service. SecDef chose you to hold some closely guarded secret...?!?! Rummy? No, we're not that tight. Or it would fold. There were strong rumors several years ago that it would fold, even though there were plenty of Amateur volunteers. No negative comment? Do you agree? No Amateur Radio = No MARS. Please tell me about third party agreements in MARS. YOU tell ME what 3rd Party agreements have to do with any of this...?!?! Amateur Radio has third party agreements. "MARS IS Amateur Radio ... MARS has third party agreements. So what are they? You tell me, Brain. It's "Brian." It was. Then you started back in with the "Yell DMC/Yell Yell/You're nuts" routine. But you are nuts. Now you're back to being "Brain". I kept my side of it up. You couldn't handle yours. You failed the stress test. You tell me. You're the one making wild-eyed claims that "MARS IS Amateur Radio!" You've still not made a connection. Then you're synapses are not firing. You ARE still quoting out of context. Quoted EXACTLY as you typed it. You are still in denial. You quoted one line out of a several paragraph post wherein I drew an analogy between the spirit of volunteerism in both. The spirit of volunteerism? "Sorry Hans, MARS IS Americorps!" Hi, hi! You keep thinking you are making a point, but all you are doing is succeeding in proving MY point that that one "line" is all you have to "come at me" with. Pretty lame, but then you ARE the Prince of Lameness. Sucks to be you. You almost excel at name-calling. OK, if "MARS IS Amateur Radio," and in amateur radio CW is allowed almost everywhere; where is CW allowed on MARS? See the above. You don't know. Weren't you the one trying to check me out WRT my MARS experience? Hi, hi! All bluff and bluster. So where is CW allowed in MARS? MARS is not Amateur Radio. Quoted out of context again. "Sorry Hans, MARS IS Amateur Radio!" Quoted EXACTLY as you typed it. Same one-liner dodge from answering any questions about your own failed misdeeds in Newsgroup Adventuring. See the above. You lied. Nope. Not to you. Not to anyone here. Every day. Same putz. Same potty mouth. Nope. You've proved you earned it, Brain. Enjoy it...embrace it...It's yours. Steve, K4YZ Nuts. |
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Brian Kelly wrote:
Dave Heil wrote in message ... Brian Kelly wrote: ...and I saw a fairly priced 75A-4 at the Washington, PA hamfest this morning. I resisted. Woo-woo! Nice piece. What are they going for these days? Well, there's the ebay price and there's the small hamfest price. This one was in pretty good shape and a firm 500 clams. Without knowing just what A4s have been going for these days $500 seems to be reasonable if it's in decent shape. The Pittsburgh WB3 who was mulling the buy over contacted the seller the day after the hamfest and bought it. Ya hafta resist or ya go nuts. I've sworn to myself not to clutter this place up with any boat anchors. I have not taken such a vow. Was not optional in my case. None. Zero tolerance for boat anchors around here. But then I spot the R4B and the 75S-3B again and remember all the goodies I worked and all the fun I had with them and start to crumble. I need a Boat Anchors Anonymous chapter to help me deal with it but alas, no such thing . . . Go with the flow. Depends on what's flowing where. I have health and space problems and was sinking in cubic yards upon cubic yards of up to 50 years worth of CRAP and was almost under when I decided that I had to either take my life back or commit hari-kari. So I spread almost all of my posessions out on an empty 20 x 80 foot floor in the old textile mill I'd haunted since I was a kid. I sorted thru the heap and picked a small pile to save for myself. Then I invited family members and a few others to trash pick the heap before I ordered the dumpster. Micollis got his van load. Sure wish I'd known you back then. It would have been worth a road trip! Then I went berserk and turned myself into a one-man front end loader and up the hill to the landfill the 30 or 40 yard trash container went. In retrospect I probably should have kept some stuff I dumpstered but I'm not losing any sleep over it. I did my kids a favor, they'll dumpster everything which is left anyway when I croak so I've saved them some of that chore ....or they'll put it on ebay and smile all the way to the bank. . . like my Quaker school first grade teacher admonished "Know thyself Master Brian!". Yeah, I do know myself, I'm patterned, I'm a compulsive pack rat. That's why I gotta be a hardass and not go back to collecting nice old radios else I'll wind up right back where I was. My bride and I are both packrat types. That's one reason we had to build the 16 x 30' barn. Thankfully, there's heat out there so the stuff doesn't get damaged. It beats collecting Hummel figurines. Don't even bring up Hummels David . . the ex is a Hummel freak who has a buddy who was the wife of a G.I. stationed in Germany back when the Hummel craze was barely getting off the ground. Net result being that the ex has some number of 25 gallon fibre barrels fulla the things which she bought with pocket change back then. Gotta be worth big bucks today. Many years later the property settlement was not pretty. She and her idiot lawyer got to nit picking my assets so just to be annoying I told de judge that I wanted to get into splitting up the collection of Hummels. Which she "conveniently" forgot to list as one of her assets of course. At which point my lawyer hissed in my ear, "If you intend to get serious about splitting up a collection of #%X&# Hummels go find another lawyer!". I have a cousin going through all of that now. His soon-to-be-ex is another Hummel fanatic. There wasn't an uncluttered flat surface in their large house. His lawyer told him pretty much the same thing as yours told you. Ahhh! They have a "William" variant. The Orion is available with a built-in antenna tuner. I didn't get that model. Unless it can impedance-match his TV rabbit ears it wouldn't do much for him. Maybe when he wises up and moves . . Or does some planning so that he can put up a decent antenna with adequate safeguards so his kids can't touch it. Per a post of his around here a couple days ago he's trying to be contrite and explained that his antenna problem involves some sort of installation "restrictions". Maybe like CC&Rs or some such, he didn't say . . . Could be CC&R problems. It could be wifely concerns about the chil'ren. It could be his concern about what the neighbors will say. A simple A-frame mast or even a 4x4 topped with a 2x4 would have given him another support. He could have easily protected the fed portion from the chil'ren. "It's all about the chil'ren Whatta weenie . . After a long period of observed behavior, I'm in agreement. Or like the guy across the street who bought a 40 inch flatsceen TV "for the chullins" but they're not allowed to use it. Doesn't want to damage their sensitive eyes? After I finally got my Novice ticket Pop found out real quick what I was doing to his world so we agreed that I wouln't fire up the 80M ARC-5 on Friday nites while the "Gillette Calvacade of Sports" fights were on the boob tube. The problem I had with Mom ealier however did not involve an "agreement". Our old B&W TV in Oak Hill, WV must've had a 21 meg IF. I ate it alive every time I tried to get on 15m with the old DX-40. I spent my days as a Novice on 40 and 80m. That could have gotten a whole lot more confrontational. Zed Zainoon W8ENJ, a Lebanese-American screwed up the TV reception at a Moundsville bar close to his home back in the early '50s with his Collins KW-1 AM KW. There was very nearly a lynching. Heeee! Precious moments in ham radio. There are guys (beer drinkers, not hams) STILL talking about it! We were in a two-house compound in Botswana. A chunky, middle-aged, single personnel lady moved in next door. She raised hell about my 160m sigs setting off her burglar alarm. One embassy staffer tried to be helpful. "David is transmitting at way too high a frequency", he opined. Only the Regional Security Officer, the younger brother of actress Margarent Colin, had a handle on the situation. I outlined the problem, including the fact that none of the alarm system wires was shielded. He had the house system rewired by a local technician. When the guy showed up with some small shielded cable, Tom said, "This stuff is too thin and unobtrusive to run down her walls. Don't you have any fat gray or black cable that'll really show up?" That's what they used, big ugly gray wire running to each motion detector head. It eliminated the personel officer's problem and mine. Dave K8MN |
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"William" wrote in message om... (Steve Robeson K4CAP) wrote in message ... Subject: US Licensing Restructuring ??? When ??? From: (William) Date: 10/4/2004 7:14 PM Central Standard Time Message-id: (Steve Robeson K4CAP) wrote in message ... Gosh, I wonder who's running MARS? All of the civilians who happen to have Amateur Radio licenses, DoD runs MARS. For DoD purposes, not Amateur purposes. On MARS frequencies, not on Amateur frequencies. With DoD regulations, not Amateur regulations. Riley has nothing to do with it. Didn't say he did. You said that "MARS IS Amateur Radio!" Riley is a regulator of Amateur Radio. Therefore Riley is a regulator of MARS. Incorrect use of deductive logic. Otherwise we could say: Roses are red, Apples are red, therefore roses are apples. Or we could go: Dogs are carnivores, bears are carnivores, therefore dogs are bears. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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Dave Heil wrote in message ...
Brian Kelly wrote: Without knowing just what A4s have been going for these days $500 seems to be reasonable if it's in decent shape. The Pittsburgh WB3 who was mulling the buy over contacted the seller the day after the hamfest and bought it. Very familiar routine, I always (make myself) balk at jumping on pricey impulse buys no matter how much I just have the have the thing. Whatever it might be. I've lost "deals I couldn't refuse" to others who didn't hesitate and won some by going home and thinking it thru first like your WB3 did. out on an empty 20 x 80 foot floor in the old textile mill I'd haunted since I was a kid. I sorted thru the heap and picked a small pile to save for myself. Then I invited family members and a few others to trash pick the heap before I ordered the dumpster. Micollis got his van load. Sure wish I'd known you back then. It would have been worth a road trip! You did "know" me then, it was just a year or so ago but I didn't get into it here. I had a lotta stuff but most of it had nothing to do with radio. Household goods, lumber, leftover home handyman crap, clothing, obsolete office machinery, darkroom "treasures" and beyond. A photo-freak nephew carted off my big Kodak Model A enlarger . . I have no idea how old it was, probably came out of the 1930s. "Good luck with that clunker Tim!" . . . poof: gone: wunnerful. With a few exceptions the radio stuff was really ancient, uninteresting junque not worth anything to anybody except to a rare Miccolis type or two. He never got anywhere near the few goodies which are not junque like the meatball Collins rcvr., the R4B, the 2M gear, the TNCs, HTs etc. which I still have. You wouldn't have bothered hauling off any of the crap he glomed. Believe me, you'd have been really disappointed if you'd done a 600-700 mile overnighter round trip for that non-event. Woulda been one helluva yard sale though. dumpstered but I'm not losing any sleep over it. I did my kids a favor, they'll dumpster everything which is left anyway when I croak so I've saved them some of that chore ...or they'll put it on ebay and smile all the way to the bank. They'd have to know how to handle used ham gear via e-bay and they don't. I'll direct it to Handi-Hams or the technical high school club in Brooklyn or to the ARRL or to the FRC or sumpthin' like that which they can handle. And get their inflated tax deductions. They understand that "method" and will smile all the way to the bank. . . . That's why I gotta be a hardass and not go back to collecting nice old radios else I'll wind up right back where I was. My bride and I are both packrat types. That's one reason we had to build the 16 x 30' barn. Thankfully, there's heat out there so the stuff doesn't get damaged. That's a professional-level pack-ratting facility David, nice, heated and all huh? Of course it helps to have yer own gas well doesn't it? Per a post of his around here a couple days ago he's trying to be contrite and explained that his antenna problem involves some sort of installation "restrictions". Maybe like CC&Rs or some such, he didn't say . . . Could be CC&R problems. It could be wifely concerns about the chil'ren. It could be his concern about what the neighbors will say. A simple A-frame mast or even a 4x4 topped with a 2x4 would have given him another support. He could have easily protected the fed portion from the chil'ren. Sure. But he'll still weave, bob and duck. He doesn't have the time to mess with antennas anyway, furiously posting here sucks up all the spare time which others use to get on the air and operate. "It's all about the chil'ren Whatta weenie . . After a long period of observed behavior, I'm in agreement. Delayed development problems . . . Or like the guy across the street who bought a 40 inch flatsceen TV "for the chullins" but they're not allowed to use it. Doesn't want to damage their sensitive eyes? Doesn't want the kids screw up the timer which tells the VCR when to record the sports events he'll miss when he can't be there to watch 'em. Our old B&W TV in Oak Hill, WV must've had a 21 meg IF. I ate it alive every time I tried to get on 15m with the old DX-40. I spent my days as a Novice on 40 and 80m. Those 21 Mhz TV IFs came along about the same time the 15 meter band was opened to ham radio. Bordered on an engineering scandal. So then they moved the TV IFs to 42 Mhz to get away from the hams. As if 15M ham ops don't pump out harmonics. Welcome to the '50s techo geniuses at the IEEE, the EIA, RCA and the FCC . . . That could have gotten a whole lot more confrontational. Zed Zainoon W8ENJ, a Lebanese-American screwed up the TV reception at a Moundsville bar close to his home back in the early '50s with his Collins KW-1 AM KW. There was very nearly a lynching. Heeee! Precious moments in ham radio. There are guys (beer drinkers, not hams) STILL talking about it! Somebody oughta tape their tales for posterity. You got a digicam? We were in a two-house compound in Botswana. A chunky, middle-aged, single personnel lady moved in next door. She raised hell about my 160m sigs setting off her burglar alarm. One embassy staffer tried to be helpful. "David is transmitting at way too high a frequency", he opined. Ya just gotta wonder . . . Only the Regional Security Officer, the younger brother of actress Margarent Colin, NICE sister! had a handle on the situation. I outlined the problem, including the fact that none of the alarm system wires was shielded. He had the house system rewired by a local technician. When the guy showed up with some small shielded cable, Tom said, "This stuff is too thin and unobtrusive to run down her walls. Don't you have any fat gray or black cable that'll really show up?" That's what they used, big ugly gray wire running to each motion detector head. It eliminated the personel officer's problem and mine. That was MEAN and ROTTEN. Shame on you, tsk, tsk. Also involved some gonads, toying with snivel service personnel types can lead to "issues" . . . Dave K8MN w3rv |
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(N2EY) writes: (Len Over 21) wrote in message ... In article , (N2EY) writes: In article , (Steve Robeson K4CAP) writes: Subject: US Licensing Restructuring ??? When ??? From: PAMNO (N2EY) Date: 10/2/2004 8:55 AM Central Standard Time Message-id: In article , Dave Heil writes: Len Over 21 wrote: In article , (William) writes: (Len Over 21) wrote in message ... In article , (William) writes: (Brian Kelly) wrote in message .com... PAMNO (N2EY) wrote in message news: ... Or, on the cheap side of the coin, "recycled" parts using mainly technology that is 50 to 40 years old (K4YZ homepage). What fault do you find with that and why doesn't any of it appear of K4YZ's homepage? Len is confused. He cannot deal with the fact that K4YZ and N2EY are not the same person. There's a whole lot that he is confused about. For example, he keeps trying to confuse Amateur Radio with PLMRS, GMRS, Armed Forces Communications, CB, etc etc etc. I think Len would be very happy if Amateur Radio became just like cb. Nothing in the Southgate Type 7 is "cheap". The parts used were very inexpensive, but of high quality. Geez, absolutely zilch time spent in trying to make any of it attractive. Wrong again! A lot of time and effort were spent making it attractive to the intended market. No time or effort was spent making it attractive to Len. Of course...the Supreme Engineer forgot that the purpose of the project was to provide a functional device. Ya missed the point. "Attractiveness" is in the eye of the beholder. Look at how clothing designs have changed over the years. Tsk. Kluges are still kluges. I don't know of any clothing styles called "kluges". "Kluge" isn't a clothing style. It refers to a thrown-together (usually hastily) collection of odds and ends of aerospace things to serve a temporary purpose. Been a common term in aerospace for a half century. You should call it "modern radio art" and thereby rationalize that you are "advancing the state of the radio art!" :-) Is that an order? Tsk. Still upset about your handiwork not being admired and respected? Even if it has the appearance of being a kluge? Riiiiiight...by making "modern" radio designs using tubes in the 1990s...:-) Electro-politically incorrect to you, I suppose... Gosh no. Forget the transistor got invented in the 1940s. Tubes are venerable, traditional, the stuff of might and brawn in hum raddio...according to the olde-tymers. I find that most of the "modern ready-built" radio sets are very unattractive. ...just like all the other radio amateurs? :-) I find some other radio amateurs unattractive too. Most I find to be nice people. But, you don't LIKE the "modern ready-builts." :-) You want to re-invent the wheel and get all the applause for being able to use chassis punches... :-) Why are the designer-manufacturers continuing (after years of doing so) to design such "unattractive" exteriors? One reason is that it's cheaper for them to do so. Another is that, as in fashion, conventional marketing wisdom says that things have to change in order to sell more product. Is it all a conspiracy against the superior esthetic sense of Jimmie? You can't be talking about me, because I don't claim any "superior esthetic sense". HAR! :-) What I do have is "independent thought" about what's attractive and not attractive. I find that most of the "modern ready-built" radio sets are very unattractive. If that's unacceptable to you, tough. Rationalization for being ultra-cheap...or terribly strapped for available cash even though working as an electronics engineer (implied) for money. Tsk. Cluttered front panels, poor color choices, knobs and displays way too small and too close together, etc., etc. So I purposely avoid such design in my projects. If the set is a little bigger because of it - so what? Kluges are still kluges. :-) Back to talking about clothing again? Not me. "Kluge' is a familiar term in aerospace. Too bad you never worked in that... Decals for radio markings have been around for a half century... So what? I don't think the use of decals would make the Type 7 attractive to you. Tsk. Still smarting from the lack of appreciation of your personal hobby stuff? are clearer to read that scribbled felt-tip marker pen markings. There are no such markings on the Type 7. Hard to tell from a single picture on a personal website. But, if those are "beauty" to you, feel free to enjoy it. I don't need your permission, Len. Tsk. But all NCTAs need YOUR permission to exist in here... :-) Try NOT to impose your "standards of beauty" (radio-wise) on others. I don't. It is *you* who try to impose your standards of "attractiveness" on others. You've said that morse code is "music to your ears." :-) Tsk. That wasn't in any music appreciation venue that I know of (and that's considerable). Yet we are yet to see any examples of *your* homebrew HF radio projects, made in your own shop with only your own resources. Ah. The "challenge" is made! Gauntlet thrown down. SHOW WORK! MAKE WEB PAGES FOR DISPLAY! "Proof" is in the web pages! If it doesn't exist, then everyone "lies." :-) DOS tip, Len: AOL gives you a free home page with each screen name. You can have up to seven! Plus they provide easy-to-use software to help you set them up. Even I managed to get two of them done in a short time. (Yes, there's another...) Tsk. The limit is 2 MB per name. Good for some snapshots, little more. :-) So *show us* what *you* could do in the home workshop, using only your own resources. Geez...all but baring your teeth in a snarly challenge! :-) You are still put out that all I said of your single photo was that it was "neat." No gushing admiration for your prodigious chassis punching, no respect for your mnemoic capabilities of tube circuit recall. Sigh. About the Type 7: Had I used "decals" on the Type 7, you'd complain that they were glossy and hard to read, plus easy to rub or wash off. A simple Lucite of Plexiglass cover plate (easy to work) will protect such things. Had I used tape labels, you'd complain that they looked "primitive" But you didn't and I didn't remark on it. Yet you "know" I would have said what you accuse me of doing...hi hi. Had I used engraved nameplates, you'd complain that they looked old and like an afterthought. But you didn't and I didn't remark on it. Yet you "know" I would have said what you accuse me of doing...hi hi. Had I silkscreened the front panel, you'd complain that it wasn't engraved. But you didn't and I didn't remark on it. Yet you "know" I would have said what you accuse me of doing...hi hi. Had I engraved the front panel, you'd complain about the color choice. But you didn't and I didn't remark on it. Yet you "know" I would have said what you accuse me of doing...hi hi. Or similar stuff. But you didn't and I didn't remark on it. Yet you "know" I would have said what you accuse me of doing...hi hi. Jim's radio did just that. And much more. Mission accomplished. Not the stuff of "marketable design!" That'd be a real problem if it was built to be a marketable design. The intended market thinks it's an excellent design and of high quality manufacture. It seems that the real issue is that it bugs Len no end that someone he considers an inferior (me) can do something he can't. Not just building a rig, but being able to use it on the air. Not just from a license/legal perspective, but from a practical operating skills perspective. Tsk. Inferiority complex you have? We forget Lennie's only reason for being a "radio professional"...profit. Nothing wrong with that! "Nothing wrong?" No, there isn't. There is wrongness in still keeping the code test in U.S. amateur radio regulations. Tsk. That's a hypocritical statement in here! How? By whom? Yourself...a PCTA extra with the Double Standard. WE do what we do for FUN! Also service to our country. BWAHAHAHAHAAHHHAAAAA....!!!! Engaging in a part-time HOBBY is a "service to the country?" Sure. Nonsense. Particularly from someone who NEVER served in the military. Your mindset is so engrossed in amateur radio as your raison d'etre that you've slipped over the edge of reality into fantasy. Tsk. Is the next brag claim "hostile action" experience? :-) |
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(Brian Kelly) writes: (N2EY) wrote in message ... In article , (Brian Kelly) writes: (Len Over 21) wrote in message ... In article , PAMNO (always write even when wrong) writes: In article , (Brian Kelly) writes: Whatever you say. You can imagine getting within 10 Hz of the correct frequency with the '50s designs all you want...but that won't make it happen. What?? Where, exactly, has anybody claimed 10Hz frequency resolution with '50s analog radios? Nobody has, it's just a diversion away from the original nonsense about hams needing rigs with synthesizers. Big surprise huh? NOT! Not at all. Check out the Product Reports on the SG2020, K2 and K1. Guess which has the "dirtiest" synhthesizer, as judged by the transmitted noise away from the carrier? Guess which is the cleanest? Creative PLL and DDS subsystems of today, designed by others, make it possible for anyone to select 10 Hz increments on any HF band (30,000 frequencies within 300 KHz) with crystal- controlled accuracy. Irrelevant to 99% of amateur HF operations. With a very few special exceptions (like 60m) we're not required by law to be on any specific freq on HF. Right, but sometimes inband operational requirements dictate that we get dead on some freq or another. Within reason of course. Spots pouncing, etc. Of course - within reason. 100 Hz is usually plenty close enough. And that sort of stuff is perhaps 1% of HF ham radio. We *are* required, and have long been required, to be within the band or subband. Len can't seem to grasp that concept. He understands the law but he doesn't understand how we meet it's req'mts so he bafflegabs over the horizon on the subject often wrong all the way. I think he resents our freedom. In fact, in almost all HF ham operations, good operators decide their QRG based on non-interference, not any specific channel or spot frequency. Analog VFOs are continuously variable. Making it possible for anyone to select an *infinite* number of "increments" within a 300Hz bandwidth much less your coarse 300 Khz wide example. And they do it without generating any phase noise or other forms of crud synthesizers toss out. You mean synthesizers aren't perfect in every way? Remember the HRO-500? You bet. Disaster box. W3WPG was both a beta and a production version tester of the 500 and I twiddled bofum myself at his place in Chester. Both sounded like a bag of radio canaries (species phaseum noisium boids) and National forthwith went bust despite Hal's imploring them not to put that POS on the market. . the '500 was good for certain applications but not as a general purpose HF rx. Not for what it cost, anyway. But "synthesized?" No. Far from it. All heterodyning on the analog level. Not a PLL, not a Fractional-N, not a DDS in any of them. As if that was somehow important. Or anywhere near even slightly relevant. Those things were synthesizers - by definition. He wasn't alone. B&W came out with their 6100 transmitter and it was a flop. The synthesizer feature in it was neat but nobody wanted to pay $700 for one when they could have a Collins or Drake for the same or less. Straight out of the 1950s ham catalogs bub . . all of it. There are "experts" whose entire experience is leafing through catalogs. Well, I'm not one of 'em. Neither is anybody else around here amongst us who "have been around" . . . The catalogs are good, however, for getting exact prices and such. My FT-847, which is not much as ham xcvrs go, can be tuned in 1 Hz increments vs. the "make it possible for anyone to select 10 Hz increments" thingey you cite above. That *is* a nice rig. Did a good job on FD. Prolly not a good idea for me to loiter on this subject in this NG James but much to my surprise yes that slick little rig has proven to be a diamond in the rough. But to hell with it, I'll loiter anyway, the bandwidth is free. Radio story (diatribe): When I went radio hunting a couple years ago I had a very specific set of 'wants' centered around very high portability but also with the ergonomnics and front-panel controlability of a full-size competition-grade home station desktopper. A five pound underdash Omni. With a full panel of KNOBS, not menus dammit! (Reminds me of the time I participated in a brain-storming session pulled together by some of the guys from the Boeing Helicopters power transmission group. The chief Boeing gearbox wonk started the session off with "OK gentlemen the mission here is to come up with a transmission which is capable of transmitting an infinite number of horsepower to the rotors, weighs nothing and does not require any installation space.") I put a bunch of effort into my quest for what amounted to my particular vision of an ultimate 100W all modes Field Day xcvr. I didn't care where it came from. Current catalog units new or used, out-of-production types on the used gear market, etc. I paid a lot of attention to the online users reviews and lab test reports of a bunch of candidate rigs. It didn't take long for me to write off all of the current crop of whizzy do-it-all underdash xcvrs because of their absolutely lousy basic performance. Bottom-end BDRs, IMDs, fershtink selectivities (ceramic filters . . . gimmee a break!) along with a lack of open filter slots, menu-dipping galore. IC-706, FT-897, etc. Toy radios for the no-clues, fuhgeddit, allum. But (almost) all of those writeoffs do offer the ability to get on the VHF/UHF bands with all modes, a capability I added to my "gotta-have" list. I just *gotta* do some 6 & 2M cw & ssb. Can't imagine how that sweet old thing from Smog Central came up with his whacky comments about PCTAs not being into the VHF/UHF bands. He needs his head bolts retorqued. Did not take long for me to zero in on the FT-847 because it's the only xcvr out there anywhere which meets all of my basic objectives. Despite it's reputation for being a heap of compromises and having a collection of goofy warts and quirks. I also discovered that most of it's numerous warts can be fixed with a soldering iron. No-brainer there if one isn't afraid to perform surgery on a new kilobuck+ radio's innards. So I popped for one knowing full well that I'd bought something of a Yaesu "'kit radio". Out-of-the-box and tuning around the HF bands it was it was, shall we say, pretty unimpressive. Dismal? Woulda turned you off five seconds into a test listen. But I expected that. The killer mod was the installation of the 400Hz and 2.1Khz 8-pole INRAD IF filters a few weeks before you got your mitts on it during this past FD and commented it's an acceptable if not a rather decent performer. Given the fact that you ain't got much tolerance for lousy front ends, phase noise, birdies, menus, crummy selectivity and such. Homebrewing does spoil one that way... I might even have the temerity to take it into the upcoming CQ WW CW meatgrinder barefoot with a G5RV depending on how the plans work out for a go at it with K3NL from his place. The K3NL "planning committee" meets tomorrow at Casey's on Lansdowne Ave. Heh. So you guys gonna do it or what? The dollars I've invested to date my moded 847 are not trivial, I'm already at a bit over $1,500 and climbing as I keep adding "enhancements"to the thing . . . yeah, I know, I could have bought a used FT-1000MP (Not a "Field"!) for those kind of bucks. But an MP is not a pack 'n go rig like the 847 nor is it usable 30Mhz. so that was the end of that. I'll pick up an MP later and have the best of both worlds. I did draw some lines on the monies though. My original intent was to spend around $800 for a used 847 which are everywhere in the used market. The street price from HRO at the time was around $1,500. No way! But I ran into a sale on new 847s for $1250 gulped hard, bit the bullet and bought it. The two filters cost $155 each. Current HRO price is $1,400 which I still wouldn't go for. And if you sold it tomorrow, how much of that could you get back? I dare say it was a good investment. I rattle on too much as usual. My point is that if there's anybody out there still awake and looking for a nice little portable xcvr which covers 12 bands and does all modes much better than the really compact (junkers) the 847 is coming up a good choice for this particular OF. It's about 11 x 11 x 3.5 inches big and only weighs 16 pounds. Light enough to cart around but heavy enough that ya don;t have to chase it around the table. http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/hamhf/1467.html **This one is a gotta-do for any radio buyer**: http://www.sherweng.com/presentation.html Others: http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/135 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FT847/ http://www.supercontrol.de/cat/ft847faq/ft847faq.htm Yep. Did QST do a review yet? You obviously need to spend considerable time leafing thru the ham catalogs to get up to speed on the equipment we use before you spout off and continue to goose up your "coefficient of ignornace" on the subject of ham radio in general and the equipment we use. Don't hold yer breath... Again. Gets boring. Maybe that's the point. Seems like. Yep. You see any real projects from Len? Me neither. Then there are the few "drudges" (like myself) who've gotten our hands dirty doing the design and testing of synthesizers. Then there are drudges like me who have ham licenses and and put technoligies to work on the airwaves whilst all you're allowed to do is bafflegab about 'em with your keyboard. And there are drudges who can design and build a rig from top to bottom, power supply to antenna, put it on the air and work the world with it on the ham bands. Using a whole bunch of different modes and technologies. Right! Let's see, who here has done that..... For which we are called names and insulted here. Writeoff . . . Completely 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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