I can't believe it; in 2008 I'll be able to join QCWA (if I decide
that's something I want to do).
Then it won't be long at all until you qualify for OOTC membership :-)
Grant/NQ5T
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- Original Message -
From: Ellen Rugowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service
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Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Anti-AM Opinionated Hams
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From: Geoff/W5OMR [EMAIL
Ellen Rugowski wrote:
W5OMR is right in saying that we don't have to wait for a special event to
come out of the woodwork.
Too bad the 15 meter propagation isn't with us yet.
I'm thinking that 15m is kinda like 10m. The band is open a lot more
than you think, but because everyone is
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From: Mike Duke, K5XU [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion of AM Radio amradio@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 4:30 AM
Subject: [AMRadio] Getting on the Air
W5OMR is right in saying that we don't have to wait for a special event to
come out of the
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From: Geoff/W5OMR [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service
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Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Getting on the Air
I'm thinking that 15m is kinda like 10m. The band is open a lot more
Back in the late sixties, early seventies when I used
to participate in field day, I remember a keyer that
was brought a couple times and I used alot. It had no
tubes or xstrs, just a relay, 2 caps, 2 pots, a
battery, and a phone jack for the key, which in this
case was a pair of back to back
I've heard reports that 15m was open, more than most people think.
Yep, that would be me - guilty as charged. Being a Corntaster, who does it
QRP, I spend a fair amount of time in 15 higher. 15'vs been all or
nothing. When it's open for me, it's open to FL, AZ, CA, OR, WA, with TX
Ellen Rugowski wrote:
That's probably gonna work out real well for ya, seeing as how 120'
is a half-wave on 75m (3.9Mc)
It usually does. But due to the high impdeance, it's one of the things that
drive me to a roller inductor tuner. I just wish it was up higher.
You'll like the Viking
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From: Geoff/W5OMR [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service
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Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Anti-AM Opinionated Hams
Ellen Rugowski wrote:
That's probably gonna work out real well
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From: Geoff/W5OMR [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 3:12 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Anti-AM Opinionated Hams
Ellen Rugowski wrote:
What do you plan to use with the Viking
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When did Rat Shack start having an amateur radio section again?
73,
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Glad you found it John. HB keyers have been around since the 30's. I
remember an OT down the street who had one he built in that era with 45's
and he had absolutely no problem with it at 35-40 wpm in the late 50's.
Carl
KM1H
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From: John Dilks K2TQN [EMAIL
Don't know if any body would be interested, but I was in the Radio Shack
Store in Derby Kansas today,
and a complete AM station was for sale in the amateur radio section:
Halicrafters SX-101, Viking II, 2 each Heathkit Q-multipliers, a
Halicrafters VFO, speaker, and a spear parts
SX-101
Just to follow-up on the anonymous insulting email I received in reply
to a message sent to ARRL officers... the header doesn't have any
useful info. It was sent from one of the online email services which
do not tell you much if anything about the sender.
My theory is that it was forwarded
I knew we should not have had the recent tread about how old we were and
how long we have been licensed. See what you get!
Jim/W5JO
That really makes me feel like I am rushing headlong into
oldbuzzardism. A really nice OLD keyer from the nineteen SIXTIES.
I usually think of nice old
Well, if anyone cares, I just recently hit the big 70 and was first licensed
as WN4AWM in 1953. I have held W4AWM since I upgraded to General and am now
a heavy Extra. I did trade W4AWM for K6MUG for a short period when I went to
CA after high school, but came back East and joined the Air
Aurora CW is fun on 6M. Especially when you link up to Es or F2 (not for a
few more years). Ive worked Alaska from NH on what is believed to have been
an AU link to double hop E. You should be in an excellent location for AU.
Ive worked coast to coast, South America and Europe on regular E and
Mike Duke, K5XU wrote:
W5OMR is right in saying that we don't have to wait for a special event to
come out of the woodwork.
Lots of us will be around the house for the remainder of the weekend,
including today.
If this noise will let me, I'll be on 40, and will check 20 regularly.
Too bad
Ellen Rugowski wrote:
What do you plan to use with the Viking II?
Basically the same thing I used during this last 6m E-season, my HF antenna
(which is basically a 125 ft random wire), with a tuner.
That's probably gonna work out real well for ya, seeing as how 120' is a
half-wave on
At 09:39 PM 11/23/2007, you wrote:
That really makes me feel like I am rushing headlong into
oldbuzzardism. A really nice OLD keyer from the nineteen SIXTIES.
I usually think of nice old radio stuff as being from pre-WW2, or
from the1940's at the latest. To me, stuff from the 1960's is
What happened Mark, did you get turkey and dressing everywhere? :)
Jim/W5JO
There is some 15 CW activity now.I'm parked on 21.420. Called CQ
for a while but nada.
I'll be there for a while longer whilst cleaning up the shack
73 Mark K3MSB
W5OMR is right in saying that we don't have to wait for a special event to
come out of the woodwork.
Lots of us will be around the house for the remainder of the weekend,
including today.
If this noise will let me, I'll be on 40, and will check 20 regularly.
Too bad the 15 meter propagation
Howdy, Ellen!
Yeah... I know that there at least USED to be a bunch in the
Milwaukee area that kept 6 meter AM hopping, but I've never heard
them here, so I assume they're now defunct.
I've always been intrigued by 6 meters... even back when I was in
Chicago, a channel 2 area!!! I can say
Duane,
I wish to thank you for your eloquence!
You said what I was TRYING to say, but being an old warrior - graduate
of the Rifle, Grenade, and Bayonet School, NOT the knife fork and spoon
school, do not do well!
One Nation Under God, with Liberty and Justice for ALL!
Bob - N0DGN
Duane
There is some 15 CW activity now.I'm parked on 21.420. Called CQ
for a while but nada.
I'll be there for a while longer whilst cleaning up the shack
73 Mark K3MSB
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Duane states: Benjamin Franklin did 'not' seriously propose that the Turkey
be the
national bird instead of an Eagle. The truth is, Franklin hated the
Eagle! The Turkey was his tongue in cheek way of saying so!
Well Duane,
I beg to differ with you on that one. The one reason old Ben
Hey Jim --
Heard CW and SSB activity but nothing on AM. Went upstairs about an
hour and a half after I made my post and made the mistake of laying
down on the couch.woke up around 5 PM or so. I think both dogs
and I had a snoring contest; the hound probably won.
Off to the CQ WW CW
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From: Mark K3MSB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Getting on the Air
There is some 15 CW activity now.I'm parked on 21.420. Called CQ
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From: jeremy-ca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Ben Dover [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion of AM Radio in the
Amateur Service amradio@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Anti-AM Opinionated Hams
Aurora CW is fun on 6M. Especially when
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