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"Cmd Buzz Corey" wrote in message ... garigue wrote: That is why the loss of the Novice license is such a disaster to Amateur Radio. All in the name of pushing a mike button there Dan ....pure and simple .... We used to have to dig em out of the noise, hand on rx and follow them up/down the band. Not much for filters, just your ears and brain. But that's another subject. Dan/W4NTI Boy Dan that is right ..... did that with the old HA-230 ..... like I said before ....it drifted more than my uncle coming out of the Legion on a Saturday night ..... Take care Dan . et al see you on the air for FD ...W3CSL Monessen ARC .... And Novices were required to be crystal controlled, which meant that a Novice might own 1 or 2 crystals, or maybe a rich kid would own 3 crystals. So you first checked to see if the frequency of your crystal was in use, if not then call CQ, three by three, CQ three times, your call three times, and that repeated three times. Then you scanned the band because chances are some other novice answering you would not have the same crystal frequency you did. As Dan says, one learned to dig em' out, and the drifty receivers made it even more challenging. Oh yes indeed......remember how you could change the frequency of those FT-243 rocks? Carefully take them apart and apply a thin layer of pencil lead. Don't remember....did that raise or lower the freq? Another technique was to drilll a hole in the face of the rock. Put a metal screw in it and adjust the tension on the quartz via the spring that was inside. Ah the good ole days. Yeah right. Dan/W4NTI |
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Oh yes indeed......remember how you could change the frequency of those FT-243 rocks? Carefully take them apart and apply a thin layer of pencil lead. Don't remember....did that raise or lower the freq? Another technique was to drilll a hole in the face of the rock. Put a metal screw in it and adjust the tension on the quartz via the spring that was inside. Ah the good ole days. Yeah right. Dan/W4NTI Remember Meshna surplus had I think 4 Xtals for a buck at 7.150 which, by using some window glass and some toothpaste, one could knock off a few microns and shift the freq up ....only problem is that only 2 of the 4 worked after the grind ....... and that one I think was out of band .... Definitely a second on the yeah right ..... 73 Tom KI3R |
"bb" wrote in message oups.com... wrote: From: "bb" on Wed 22 Jun 2005 15:48 In RRAP, we have the uniformed, and the uninformed! The "uniformed and the uninformed!" I LIKE that phrase. Apt. :-) A single person comes to mind. BTW, Dee and Dan both just informed me that "dip****" wasn't profanity, so I think the phrase, "Gunny Dip****" will be met with overwhelming approval, unless K8MN corrects me and says it should be "Dip**** Gunny." However it is vulgar and vulgarity is also unacceptable. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
Dan/W4NTI wrote:
Oh yes indeed......remember how you could change the frequency of those FT-243 rocks? Carefully take them apart and apply a thin layer of pencil lead. Don't remember....did that raise or lower the freq? Another technique was to drilll a hole in the face of the rock. Put a metal screw in it and adjust the tension on the quartz via the spring that was inside. Ah the good ole days. Yeah right. But I'll bet you had a blast, didn't ya? - Mike KB3EIA - |
garigue wrote: Oh yes indeed......remember how you could change the frequency of those FT-243 rocks? Carefully take them apart and apply a thin layer of pencil lead. Don't remember....did that raise or lower the freq? All "suspended" masses have natural frequencies and harmonics thereof. Add mass and the freq goes down. Remove mass and the freq goes up. Another technique was to drilll a hole in the face of the rock. Put a metal screw in it and adjust the tension on the quartz via the spring that was inside. Ah the good ole days. Yeah right. Dan/W4NTI Remember Meshna surplus had I think 4 Xtals for a buck at 7.150 which, by using some window glass and some toothpaste, one could knock off a few microns and shift the freq up In these parts us N-Band crawlers lapped our xtal freqs up with Bon-Ami and lowered 'em by rubbing 'em with sodder. Had pretty good success rates both ways. ....only problem is that only 2 of the 4 worked after the grind ....... and that one I think was out of band .... Definitely a second on the yeah right ..... Yeah, but it was an awful lotta fun. 73 Tom KI3R w3rv |
Dee Flint wrote: "bb" wrote in message oups.com... wrote: From: "bb" on Wed 22 Jun 2005 15:48 In RRAP, we have the uniformed, and the uninformed! The "uniformed and the uninformed!" I LIKE that phrase. Apt. :-) A single person comes to mind. BTW, Dee and Dan both just informed me that "dip****" wasn't profanity, so I think the phrase, "Gunny Dip****" will be met with overwhelming approval, unless K8MN corrects me and says it should be "Dip**** Gunny." However it is vulgar and vulgarity is also unacceptable. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE Great! NOW you tell me it's unacceptable!!! ;^) Are the things that Steve says to people acceptable? |
Dan/W4NTI wrote: wrote in message ups.com... I've had similar experiences on FD. Some folks think they're doing well to make QSOs on SSB at a certain rate with a beam and 100 W transceiver, with an op and a logger. Exhausted after an hour or two, they wander over to the CW tent and find me working them at 2, 3 or more times their rate, with a dipole, "old" transceiver, and no logger. The reactions when presented with a manual transmatch were priceless, too. 73 de Jim, N2EY Yeah it is. I was at a FD a few years back and I fired up the "bug". You should have seen their looks of amazement. Had em standing in line to ask me questions afterwards. Dan/W4nti The older you'se guys gets, the better you'se was... |
From: "bb" on Fri 24 Jun 2005 16:33
wrote: From: "bb" on Wed 22 Jun 2005 15:48 In RRAP, we have the uniformed, and the uninformed! The "uniformed and the uninformed!" I LIKE that phrase. Apt. :-) A single person comes to mind. I wonder who that would be...? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!! BTW, Dee and Dan both just informed me that "dip****" wasn't profanity, so I think the phrase, "Gunny Dip****" will be met with overwhelming approval, unless K8MN corrects me and says it should be "Dip**** Gunny." I'm sure the SS schoolmaster will say something...:-) If you act real nice, he will explain all his knowledge of Hunnish. Especially on the proper English spelling of "Attila!" He must be fluent in many languages. Especially "f." [that makes him an "effluent."] bit, bit |
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