Re: [drakelist] An Introduction & a question about keyer for T-4XB

2007-10-22 Thread Doug Smith
Doug Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 23:36 -0400, Garey Barrell wrote: > Personally I use the CMOS-4 from Idiom because it's one of the few > that > I can turn off that s

Re: [drakelist] An Introduction & a question about keyer for T-4XB

2007-10-22 Thread Dennis Monticelli
"Dennis Monticelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- Take heed of the neg vs pos keying that Garey talked about and also the absolute voltage. The old Hallicrafters TO keyer with its mercury wetted r

RE: [drakelist] An Introduction & a question about keyer for T-4XB

2007-10-22 Thread Duane Calvin
"Duane Calvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- I'm with Garey - I use the "Logikey" from Idiom also. I have, in my shack, the K1, K3 and K5. I use the K3 with the Drake because it has two jacks on

RE: [drakelist] An Introduction & a question about keyer for T-4XB

2007-10-22 Thread Jeff Siegel
"Jeff Siegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- Excellent! Thank you for the info. I saw a used keyer on QTH so I may go for it...cause I ain't using a straight key (actually, it makes my carpal tunne

RE: [drakelist] An Introduction & a question about keyer for T-4XB

2007-10-22 Thread Jeff Siegel
"Jeff Siegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- Thanks for much for the info. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug Smith Sent: Monday, October 2

Re: [drakelist] An Introduction & a question about keyer for T-4XB

2007-10-22 Thread Garey Barrell
Garey Barrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- Jeff - The Drake transmitters are all NEGATIVE voltage to ground, while most modern transceivers are POSITIVE to ground. Most keyers will key either

Re: [drakelist] An Introduction & a question about keyer for T-4XB

2007-10-22 Thread Doug Smith
Doug Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 23:11 -0400, Jeff Siegel wrote: > The question is, > what is a suitable keyer to use with the transmitter? I have a 1960's era Halli

[drakelist] An Introduction & a question about keyer for T-4XB

2007-10-22 Thread Jeff Siegel
"Jeff Siegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- My name is Jeff - KC2OBG, located in Port Washington, NY on the north shore of Long Island. I'm a ham about 2 1/2 years and work almost exclusively CW on

Re: [drakelist] 2B knobs "fixed" pics.

2007-10-22 Thread Dennis Monticelli
"Dennis Monticelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- I am not a purist. I like resourcefulness. On 10/22/07, Jim F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Jim F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to

[drakelist] 2B knobs "fixed" pics.

2007-10-22 Thread Jim F.
"Jim F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang -- Below, find two pictures of "fixed" Drake 2B knobs. The knobs had a ring of rust where the chrome was supposed to be. I found some chrome washers at a hard