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Any Dxer's Hams out there?
Vanity | 3/30/08 | mylife

Posted on 03/30/2008 12:14:41 PM PDT by mylife

Any Dxer's Or HAMS out there interested in opening a Dxer Forum?

I'm new to this stuff and could use some FRiends to surf the waves with.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: dx; dxham; ham; shortwave
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To: Professional Engineer

Well?


81 posted on 03/30/2008 4:57:09 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: msnpatriot

Were you on for the last weekend sprint? Maybe we had a “Q”. I’m thinking of staying with the manual key and perhaps build a sideswiper next.


82 posted on 03/30/2008 4:57:32 PM PDT by Database
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To: mylife

When I was in my teens, I spent a lot of time listening on an old Hallicrafters SX-42. That thing was heavy.


83 posted on 03/30/2008 5:01:02 PM PDT by reg45
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To: reg45

Glad to see so many Freepers are of an “inquisitive” midset


84 posted on 03/30/2008 5:13:10 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Mindset


85 posted on 03/30/2008 5:13:33 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Database

Thats great, No, I haven’t been on for about 6 months. There’s bad RFI in the area I hope to fix.

I was busy on SKCC before that, mostly when it was first started. I did Fists for about 5 years before that.

The straight key is fine if you enjoy it, I like them.

I’ve used Sideswipers alot, haven’t built one. Though thats a good idea, you can build one from brass stock and a block of wood. I often used the Spanish LLAVES model ‘GMM’. It was around $70.

They are fun to learn, and not many ppl use em anymore. You use your wrist to key back and forth starting from your right, never using the same side more than once.

***Were you on for the last weekend sprint? Maybe we had a “Q”. I’m thinking of staying with the manual key and perhaps build a sideswiper next.***


86 posted on 03/30/2008 5:14:21 PM PDT by msnpatriot
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To: reg45

Cool radio


87 posted on 03/30/2008 5:25:45 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: reg45
The Big Kahuna! Widowmaker! If you have ever tried to lift a radio this size, you know what I'm talking about. This superlative communications receiver represents a peak of post-World War II radio technology. And it weighs about as much as a 1947 Buick.

L0L!!

88 posted on 03/30/2008 5:28:52 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: reg45

Thats a really awesome receiver. I would like to spend an evening with that


89 posted on 03/30/2008 5:35:04 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: reg45
How cool is this?


90 posted on 03/30/2008 5:38:07 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife; All
Given a choice of the 3 below, all around a grand (slightly used)

NRD-535
AOR AR-5000+3 (with active loop antenna)
ICOM IC-8500 (with Sony active ultrawideband antenna)

Which would you chose?

PS - it's wouldn't be hard to set up a small pinglist for anyone interested... (scanning/swl/DXing)


91 posted on 05/08/2008 5:48:15 PM PDT by xcamel (Forget the past and you're doomed to repeat it.)
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I pinched that logo! L0L.

I’m listening to the 40M HAMS right now.
Propagation sucked last night due to storms


92 posted on 05/08/2008 5:54:18 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

I was picking up a michigan CQDX contest 5/5 on an Eton E1 from my house in LaPaz, MX a couple weeks ago..


93 posted on 05/08/2008 5:57:30 PM PDT by xcamel (Forget the past and you're doomed to repeat it.)
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I believe it. I regularly get canada and guatemala


94 posted on 05/08/2008 6:00:43 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

“I used to work on the R390 back in the day in the navy.”

I used to work with R390s back in the early 1980s. I don’t know but I might still be able to zero one out.


95 posted on 05/08/2008 6:06:55 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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To: xcamel

Thats a hard call on radios. They are all out of my budget range.


96 posted on 05/08/2008 6:08:52 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: PLMerite

Thats when I worked on them as well.
Well I learned them in school back then. I didnt work on them daily.


97 posted on 05/08/2008 6:10:08 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

I dabbled briefly as a MARS operator at my base in Germany back in the 80’s. I was stationed at Bismarck Kaserne in Schwaebisch Gmuend with the 56th FA Bde (Pershing). I was the MARS operator for about 8 months. My MOS was 05B (later 31K) at the time.

My call sign for the net was AEM1HKE. I loved doing it...hey, it was cushy duty!


98 posted on 05/08/2008 6:26:49 PM PDT by hoagy62 (Happily watching the Left go full-goose bozo.)
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Sounds like it was fun!


99 posted on 05/08/2008 6:33:41 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: xcamel
Found a NRD 525 for $750
100 posted on 05/08/2008 7:58:54 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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