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Skriven 2012-06-19 05:41:07 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 29878 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
Ärende: Fidonews Vol 29 No 23 June 04, 2012 Page: 2
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19 Jun 12 02:24, Richard Webb wrote to Roy Witt:

 Roy>> Just wondering, as the TS520 has had a xtal change to cover 11m.
 Roy>> That was done when I was still a Novice back in the 70s. My 'elmer'
 Roy>> did it, since we were all 'HFers' back then.

 RW> YEah friend of mine did that to a 520 also.  My Kenwood
 RW> ts-440 is opened up as is the 680.  The Icom 740 ahs the
 RW> 'warc' bands but wont' tx or rx outside the amateur bands.

It will if you lift a diode, the right diode, I mean. I modified a Icom
3210a that would xmit on business and police frequencies (big mistake
because kids like to play radio operator while dad is away at work)...FCC
didn't like it very much, so I returned it to type accepted status.

 RW>> Besides, old 23 channel cb stuff is cheap, I just haven't
 RW>> needed to acquire one.

 Roy>> You can buy a 40ch cheaper than an old 23...people keep those 23ch
 Roy>> radios around, especially if they're xtal controlled.

 RW> No doubt.  Thing is, most of the time if I'm traveling in
 RW> caravan we've got ham radio between them.

None of the people I travel in caravan with here have a HAM license. None
are interested in getting one either.

 Roy>>> The 'truckers' use channel 19 as they pass through here. Sometimes
 Roy>>> fun to listen to them fight among themselves. The local hispanic
 Roy>>> community uses that channel for general communication and for some
 Roy>>> reason, yankee truckers cuss them out for doing so. They get put
 Roy>>> in

 RW> <snip>

 RW>> I used to do one cb with dual watch capability in our
 RW>> traveling show caravan, he'd listen to 19 or whatever the
 RW>> standard road channel for the region is.  The other rode on
 RW>> a side channel somewhere for intercommunication among us.

 Roy>> 8^) we'd use VHF walkie-talkies for that. One of our gang was a
 Roy>> mountain top serviceman, so the equipment was always available.

 RW> Right, but cb was cheaper, and two of us had amplifiers.

Walkie-talkies were issued by my friend to those who needed one. They were
xtaled for one of his business repeaters and could be switched to simplex
for caravan use.

 Roy>>> I can relate to it all since it resembles Fidonet a lot.

 RW>> YEah that it does.  I use it to exchange relevant traffic
 RW>> and road conditions info or something like that, or to
 RW>> acquire it if necessary when traveling.

 Roy>> Back in the day, I had a Browning Golden Eagle base station and
 Roy>> kept a Courier 23ch radio in the car. The Eagle could be tuned on
 Roy>> the receiver end and xmit on any given xtal channel. I swapped two
 Roy>> xtals in the Courier so that it received on one channel and
 Roy>> xtransmitted on another. The wife could tune to my xtmit channel
 Roy>> and hear me over the local noise of traffic on the way to work,
 Roy>> while I listened for her on the quietest channel in town. I lived
 Roy>> on a 'mesa' with a 4 element beam pointed down a canyon with I-5
 Roy>> going thru it (my route to work in downtown SD). When she came on
 Roy>> the air, I always turned the volume down, since she modulated that
 Roy>> Eagle to the limit.

 RW> Right, saw plenty of friends who had the Brownings.  I had
 RW> the Tram that was similar.  Tunable rx xtal tx.

I have a Tram in the garage...it's a nice radio, but not what I'd expect
from Tram...at one time I had a Tram like yours, but it was manufactured
by Swan for use by Amateurs. A 1011D or something like that.

 RW>> oTherwise, I'm hanging out doing vhf or uhf ham, and maybe some
 RW>> other general snooping.

 Roy>> My friend Monty lived at the base of Mt Soledad in his mother's
 Roy>> garage. He formed a VHF and then a UHF group that I joined later.
 Roy>> Most of the other kids around at the time were teenagers with lots
 Roy>> of radio knowlege. Many of them made a career out of radio and have
 Roy>> their own VHF and UHF repeaters, better known as the DR0NK radio
 Roy>> group. Most of them are/were partiers and drunks, so the DR0 call
 Roy>> sign sort of works for them...

 RW> I"ve heard of that.  Got my exposure to radio at school for
 RW> the blind.  There's one electrical engineer works for the
 RW> feds now out of that bunch,

Dunno who that is.

 RW> another worked for at&T for years, etc.

Rick Olsen, N6NR worked for AT&T for a long time. He's living in
Washington or Oregon now. He predicted and it came to be, long before a
lot of people knew they even existed, that cell phones would be the
future. He was/is one smart cookie...


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