Text 29644, 61 rader
Skriven 2012-06-13 07:35:48 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 29585 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
Ärende: Fidonews Vol 29 No 23 June 04, 2012 Page: 2
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09 Jun 12 00:46, Richard Webb wrote to Roy Witt:

 Roy <big snip>

 Roy>> I have no idea what the number 8028 is used for.

 RW> PRobably their message number.  REmember those message
 RW> numbers on "formal" traffic, whether amateur, or military
 RW> are part of the audit trail.

Nope. The header of the message contains a 'message number'...could be
code for origination point. i.e. It's faster to look up an origination
point in numerical order rather than by name...

 <big snip>

 Roy>> If you're familiar with the Heathkit 'Lunch Box' radios offered in
 Roy>> the 50s and 60s, they were 15 and 10 meter, 5 watt AM radios with
 Roy>> small tubes. Not much to them and they had a xtal socket on the
 Roy>> front for changing 'channels' ... totally locked in on transmit but
 Roy>> had a tunable receiver.

 RW> Indeed I am, I had their 6 meter version, called the "sixer" iirc.
 RW> Got it on a trade.  I had a crystal in it for 50.4 mhz, and another
 RW> crystal for around 50.75 as lots of guys used that freq where I
 RW> acquired the radio. Had to pop it open and change them.  I remember
 RW> upsetting a bunch of neighbors, the super bowl was on and I heard a
 RW> guy in Georgia calling cq on 50.4, the band opened, I lived in Iowa
 RW> and I jumped on it. All the neighbors as well as my place did their
 RW> tv terrestrial over the air with outdoor antennas as we didn't have a
 RW> tv signal any closer than about 70 miles from us at the time.  I sure
 RW> had people beating on my door over that one <grin>.

8^) Reminds me of the late 40s, early 50s with a HAM living across the
street and a few doors up. Lots of baluned long wires hanging in the
breeze, etc.. Weak signal TV was (or seemed so at the time) more subject
to TVI then. Lots of complaints when the TV screen flashed sideways when
he was on the air (didn't know what CW was then, but recognize it today)
... I visited his 'shack' back then, which is where I picked up the radio
bug. A few years later in my own shack, I was sending CW...

 Roy>> Haven't seen one of those animals in a coon's age.

 RW> Nope, I traded that sixer for something else, ended up with
 RW> a Utica 650, basically the same thing, but with a transmit
 RW> vfo.  I had a d-104 microphone connected to it.

I have one of those D-104 (lollipop)s on my TS520...back then, the mic on
the 10mtr lunch box was a 251 Turner.


                R\%/itt



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