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    Reminiscing

    There was a girl/woman/pretender in this area who X-ratedly teased the US224 truckers for years...and I mean years...until me and the crew decided to locate her over the Christmas holidays in '91. Conniving little wench had a Ringo mounted on top of the home's electrical feed and the radiator...
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    SSTV on VHF

    At one time, there was a fair amount of TV activity - both fast and slow-scan - in the Akron/NEOH region. We also organized 10/6/2M RTTY and keyboard-keyboard packet nets. Trick is getting everyone to play, and getting the required gear into their hands. It's a lot easier with soundcard-based...
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    Hilberling PT 8000 A

    PT8000 + divorce; Keep wife, suffer lousy RF experience. You folks are making this very difficult...
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    2188 miles on 20 meters

    Get your antenna as high in the air as you can and work further still. In doing so you'll lower its angle of radiation - and lengthen that "first hop" distance.
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    yaesu ft101e

    The FT-101/B/E/F and the ZD series are two entirely different designs. A 'ZD is more like an FT-90x than anything else.
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    "Todd" runs new Ham off 28.425

    Would anyone provide me with a link to a discussion of what constitutes "poor" operating practice - aside from the equipment in question being operated in a technically deficient manner? You can't. And until the FCC issues a finding on the matter, the issue of EOT tones and/or echo is...
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    "Todd" runs new Ham off 28.425

    If the person in question is in fact an OO, I would like to see the ARRL's position on his evidently profound lack of technical qualifications. In fact, I may bring this up elsewhere with a couple of the divisional staff members.
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    "Todd" runs new Ham off 28.425

    So if it's not expressly prohibited, the OOANs citing such on-air behavior and which were supposedly sent out by the gentleman in question are in fact based on an "arbitrary" point of view...do I have this much correct?
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    "Todd" runs new Ham off 28.425

    Re: Echo and roger beeps in the amateur bands: Though I don't agree with their usage, can anyone post the section of 47 CFR 97 that specifically prohibits a licensed amateur from utilizing such? And I'm not interested in Todd's or anyone else's "subjective" opinion...just the facts. In...
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    Part 95 Rewrite

    Really want to baffle the easily confused? Put up a 15-10M log periodic. Use it on either service with equal facility.
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    Part 95 Rewrite

    The directional antenna rule shouldn't even make it into the proposal, and the 155.3-mile limit should be eliminated altogether. There's not enough usage to justify an expansion of frequencies and as far as the rest of the Class D service is concerned, it's fine as-is. No need to impose...
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    "Todd" runs new Ham off 28.425

    If I ever encounter Todd on the air I'll need to restrain myself from asking him if he's Filipino... ...as he certainly puts the "DU" in dumbass.
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    Kenwood TS-990 - - any info?

    Please let this station in a box offer 222 and 902 - possibly 1.2GHz - modules in addition to 6/2/432.
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    Beware of superhawkwss6 on Ebay

    Another gem from the same seller: TRAM D300 AM/SSB /D104 MIC/SUPER CLEAN ALL ORIGINAL/1ST CLASS PERFORMER | eBay All one has to do is to throw a few "whilsts" and "One owner from new!s" into that ad copy and it would read exactly like Radio-Mart's stuff did.
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    Beware of superhawkwss6 on Ebay

    I wonder how many people have done so...and what good (if any) came of it. Ebay's "buyer is always right" policy - by virtue of its construction - is absolutely ripe for abuse. But as long as they keep getting their cut...
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    SSTV?

    I really like MMSSTV. Have a couple others installed on the (now-crashed :headbang ) rig-control PC (which I have to rebuild this week).
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    Some amateur/commercial restoration goodness

    Here's a pic of another lately completed project. It's my workshop/reloading-room station. In the late 70s, Swan introduced the "Astro" series of transceivers - a twin-PTO-tuned, 6-band fixed-station unit (the 102BX) and a fully synthesized, 5-band mobile/fixed SSB/CW transceiver. The latter...
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    A little CPI refurbishing

    I've actually done that on some Drake (Kurz-Kasch) knobs on occasion and it does work well. There is a liquid automotive finishing compound called "NicSand" which incorporates 10,000-grit particles and it'll do a nice job too. Those inserts concern me - not sure how delicate the paint is and...
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    A little CPI refurbishing

    I'm a member of that group - joined a couple months ago - and plan to post these along with details and pics of a few other accessories when I get them finished. In particular: The BC2000 and FC70. There's an Achilles Heel with the display driver and reference oscillator circuitry which I...
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    Beware of superhawkwss6 on Ebay

    Misrepresentation at the very least. Won't Ebay kick an unscrupulous seller such as that off their site? ETA: After reading this thread in its entirety, "collusion" would be a better term for what's occurring. There's no way in hell the people at both Ebay and PayPal can be that stupid.