Re: [Elecraft] Going Mobile?

2017-10-10 Thread Clay Autery
LMAO!  Wow!!!  Can you say HIRTA? That is an awesome story My uncle had lots of oddly funny/scary stories like that having "grown up" in the air force (35+ years). Thanks for making me think about the man in the #2 spot on my "Heroes List". 73, __ Clay Autery, KY5G

Re: [Elecraft] Going Mobile?

2017-10-09 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
ilhelm Sent: Monday, October 9, 2017 4:34 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Going Mobile? I recall a construction article a long time ago (mid 1960's) in GE Ham News where W8DLD constructed a 1KW mobile linear using a pair of Grounded Grid 814 tubes and developed the HV from

Re: [Elecraft] Going Mobile?

2017-10-09 Thread Carl Yaffey1
A memory: 1955 I was at the Virginia Phone Net picnic at a farm. A guy pulls up in a Plymouth coupe with a huge plastic box on the roof with large coils and capacitors showing. Sticking out of it was a long vertical antenna. He stepped out. He had a microphone harness on which had probably been

Re: [Elecraft] Going Mobile?

2017-10-09 Thread Tox
I hate to think how much of that kilowatt got absorbed by the operator. On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: > I recall a construction article a long time ago (mid 1960's) in GE Ham > News where W8DLD constructed a 1KW mobile linear using a pair of Grounded

Re: [Elecraft] Going Mobile?

2017-10-09 Thread Don Wilhelm
I recall a construction article a long time ago (mid 1960's) in GE Ham News where W8DLD constructed a 1KW mobile linear using a pair of Grounded Grid 814 tubes and developed the HV from a modified alternator to bring the 3 phase AC out and run it to 3 transformers. Of course, in those days,

Re: [Elecraft] Going Mobile?

2017-10-09 Thread Mel Farrer via Elecraft
ecraft] Going Mobile? In the late 1980s WB6FDR showed me his mobile station that had a Kenwood rig with a small control head which he had mounted on the dash of his Mercedes.  The rest of the rig plus a KW amp all fit in the trunk. I recall that one of the old W6SAI handbooks showed a mobi

Re: [Elecraft] Going Mobile?

2017-10-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
In the late 1980s WB6FDR showed me his mobile station that had a Kenwood rig with a small control head which he had mounted on the dash of his Mercedes.  The rest of the rig plus a KW amp all fit in the trunk. I recall that one of the old W6SAI handbooks showed a mobile rig with an amp that

Re: [Elecraft] Going Mobile?

2017-10-09 Thread Wes Stewart
Interesting photos of my Elmer's mobile though: http://www.k0bg.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=1039 On 10/9/2017 3:11 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote: Yeah, just remember..everything written and printed and found on the web is not necessarily correct, nor accurate, and not of the current

Re: [Elecraft] Going Mobile?

2017-10-09 Thread Bob McGraw K4TAX
Yeah, just remember..everything written and printed and found on the web is not necessarily correct, nor accurate, and not of the current methodology of doing things.  I find that a lot of info borders on what someone told their brother in law, that has a 3rd cousin who was a neighbor

Re: [Elecraft] Going Mobile?

2017-10-09 Thread Jim Brown
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[Elecraft] Going Mobile?

2017-10-09 Thread Robert 'RC' Conley
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