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    Mic for Royce 619

    I may have an original Royce mic in nice shape, surplus to my needs. If you're interested PM me and I'll check to make sure it's still here.
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    Just found out that the guy that got me started in radio passed away.

    Sorry to hear of your loss - we've had a number of ham acquaintances pass on in the last 6 months.
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    when a capacitor becomes a cannon

    IIRc, the old Sprague "Orange drops" were also failure-prone after a lengthy period of inactivity.
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    $$ Radio of the Month Semi-Finalist

    Two more from the WTF Department. This one might be worth the money to someone: BROWNING GOLDEN EAGLE MARK3 AM/SSB IN BOX/UPPER CH CRYSTAL MOD/SER# MATCH BOX | eBay This one most assuredly isn't, even though it has the (rare) noise blanker installed: Drake TR5 TR-5 Transceiver | eBay
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    Uncle Fester Advanced license cancelled

    Rumor has it that he moved to the Philippines with her, but that may be out-of-date by a bit.
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    $$ Radio of the Month Semi-Finalist

    Crack: It's a hell of a drug.
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    Uncle Fester Advanced license cancelled

    That bit is well known, but nothing regarding the enforcement action appears in the licensee's Admin Trans Log. Interesting, ain't it? Never. Come on over and join us. We don't bite. ;)
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    Uncle Fester Advanced license cancelled

    AFAIK, that license is still active under its current holder. The previous holder canceled it in 2003, however.
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    antennas

    I used a quarter-wave whip and an HR-2510 as my 10M mobile setup for a number of years. Worked a lot of DX with the arrangement, and with just 25w to it the antenna did most of the heavy lifting.
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    what radios have the best ears ?

    This data used to be available in Popular Electronics magazine back in the late 70's and very early 80's. Cobra 2000/148, Uniden Grant/Madison...anything built on that particular double-conversion platform got very good reviews, especially where adjacent-channel rejection was concerned. If...
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    Yeasu FT-301 repair

    What's it in need of, and what kind of troubleshooting skills/bench equipment do you possess? Compared to some of the stuff I've had across my bench, those rigs aren't that difficult to work on - and FoxTango has the service manual online.
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    Cobra 2000 gtl reads 92.0000

    Any of the SL-series chips were made by Plessey Semiconductor (UK). FWIW, here's an eBay link to the part: Plessey SL1611C IF Amp Chips, 1 ea. NOS | eBay
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    38LSB

    I keep a receiver parked on the frequency. It's rare that I DON'T hear any activity.
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    eBayer gone mad?

    The real idiot happens to be whomever buys the thing.
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    Waving 4 fingers and a thumb...day after day after day...

    This individual (or a tape thereof) has made it onto 20M. I hear that bit at least once a week on either 14.275ish or 14.313. Definitely from the desert SW, as I don't hear the station unless an opening to that area is in progress.
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    10 meters is wide open

    If anyone is itching to do some PSK on 10, I just got a Signalink USB connected into the shack. 28.120 is in one of the 940's memories along with the other popular watering holes. For that matter let's do some RTTY.
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    $1000 MFJ Balun?

    I did my left hand middle finger earlier in the year with an angle grinder while cutting a bunch of steel bars inset into our basement walls. Wife said she heard me cussing but didn't hear a tool drop beforehand - she figured she'd better get downstairs. Didn't bleed much at all; grinding...
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    Cb radio operators

    Don't know how much RAM/CPU you have on your system but you may wish to look into installing VMWare Player then creating an XP virtual machine. Give it about 1GB of RAM to work with and install all of your Windows-based software within. I've had to do this with several platforms I use...
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    38 LSB "Day after Day after Day"..biggest loser on the air.

    That particular saying has even made it onto the amateur bands - either in recorded or live form. Y'all are not alone.
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    Cb radio operators

    Have you ever tried running any of the Windows-based SSTV programs in Linux's WINE utility?