[Repeater-Builder] Re: Advanced Receiver Research Preamp 144-148

2007-02-12 Thread Dave VanHorn
For those who are inquiring minds and not up to all of the terminology, what is a golden screwdriver? Used to fix things, as in fixed like a cat. Now that it's fixed, it will never work again!

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Advanced Receiver Research Preamp 144-148

2007-02-12 Thread Dave VanHorn
I used to do TV repair in hawaii, back in the good old days. Major Mac was a competing outfit. I could always tell when they had worked on a set before. Broken convergence coils hanging by their wires, cracked tuning slugs, solder joints that looked like they'd been done with a Bic.

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Advanced Receiver Research Preamp 144-148

2007-02-12 Thread Dave VanHorn
I've had to work on a number of radios where someone went in and tightened those screws... Dad used to get cameras where the owner had tried to fix them. Once or twice, the victim arrived in a paper bag, full of loose parts and screws. Arrgghh...

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2007-02-12 Thread Richard W W Bazell Jr
Reminds Me. I could ue a small Alignment tool fot adjusting The VCO Coil L104 on a GE Phoenix. Make this a Golden Request. Its avery Small Square tool. Truly. We could very well cease talking about this Subject is getting Old now.Thanks Wesley AB8KD

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2007-02-11 Thread wa5luy
Thanks to all that replied about the part number of the GaSa transistor. Wow! I learned about Chip Angles Porsche 911 preamps, ARR's Cadillac repair service,golden screwdrivers, platinum screwdrivers, and all kinds of information on tuning up preamps with exotic test stuff we never heard of.

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2007-02-11 Thread cruising7388
In a message dated 2/11/2007 11:14:08 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You folks have to understand back here in the hills of western Arkansas we save our money for fishin lures, ammo, Red Man, white lightning and repairs to the 75 pick up. When we tune up the

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2007-02-11 Thread Butch Kanvick
I believe the word is TROUT. LOL. Best of the luck to you tuning repeaters with Bubba, while you are fishing. 73's. Butch, KE7FEL/r From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Advanced Receiver

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2007-02-11 Thread no6b
At 2/10/2007 05:32, you wrote: Thanks to all that replied about the part number of the GaSa transistor. Wow! I learned about Chip Angles Porsche 911 preamps, ARR's Cadillac repair service,golden screwdrivers, platinum screwdrivers, and all kinds of information on tuning up preamps with exotic test

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2007-02-11 Thread Joe
At 03:29 PM 2/11/2007 -0500, you wrote: I'm mesmerized, indeed paralyzed, by the image of Arkansas hill billys eating rainbow trots. I've never been fishin for trots, but I've gotten the trots from bad fishJoe

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2007-02-11 Thread Ralph Mowery
--- wa5luy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to all that replied about the part number of the GaSa transistor. Wow! I learned about Chip Angles Porsche 911 preamps, ARR's Cadillac repair service,golden screwdrivers, platinum screwdrivers, and all kinds of information on tuning up preamps

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2007-02-11 Thread Fred Flowers
, 2007 2:41 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Advanced Receiver Research Preamp 144-148 I believe the word is TROUT. LOL. Best of the luck to you tuning repeaters with Bubba, while you are fishing. 73's. Butch, KE7FEL/r From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply

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2007-02-11 Thread Mike Perryman K5JMP
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fred Flowers Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 11:08 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Advanced Receiver Research Preamp 144-148 Well that ya'll are not as smart as you think you are. It IS trotline one

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2007-02-11 Thread Fred Flowers
: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Advanced Receiver Research Preamp 144-148 Fred is right... it's a trot-line. A trout-line is a bunch of pompous fairys lined-up in hip waders.. LOL!! Wish I was out running lines instead of readying for an ice storm... 73 Mike K5JMP The self-proclaimed redneck from

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Advanced Receiver Research Preamp 144-148

2007-02-10 Thread skipp025
...and you can show me a coaxial cavity filter that won't be out-of-tune when connected to a load Z different than what it was properly tuned for? And, no, futzing with cavity tuning as a makeshift means of conjugate matching doesn't count. The following is a generic statement thrown out

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Advanced Receiver Research Preamp 144-148

2007-02-09 Thread skipp025
Jeff DePolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else looked at the input return loss on their ARR preamp? The better question is... have you looked at the input section of the circuit diagram? Looks like a high Z input doesn't it... :-) I had one that, when put in place, was throwing

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2007-02-09 Thread Jeff DePolo
The better question is... have you looked at the input section of the circuit diagram? Looks like a high Z input doesn't it... :-) Don't think I've seen an ARR schematic, but most GaAsFET preamp designs I've evaluated will tend to produce least noise figure with an input Z quite a ways away

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2007-02-09 Thread Gary Schafer
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Advanced Receiver Research Preamp 144-148 The better question is... have you looked at the input section of the circuit diagram? Looks like a high Z input doesn't it... :-) Don't think I've seen an ARR schematic, but most