Amateur Radio

Vanity | Sep 11, 2009 | Self

[Clinging Bitterly]

AR15.com Ham Radio subforum:

http://www.ar15.com/forums/forum.html?b=10&f=22

[mad_as_he$$]

thanks!

[Bobalu]

Here is a cheesy little video I made a few years back when I was selling some tube testers on ebay. You can see one of my first ham rigs if you look close, it’s an old 6v6 oscillator on a piece of varnished board...all of 3-4 watts CW on 80-40mtrs. Put the tiny plate and filament supply right onto the board, neon bulbs for tuneup indicators....silly thing still works fine....best contact was 2600 miles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX9Y8LLB2Ns

[Bobalu]

You are right, not much power on am at 540khz. I meant to say high end, it can be useful to be able to broadcast local am on 1500-1610...sort of a local emergency station.

A guy just never knows what might come so be prepared.

Also, you can buy 7watt FM (88-108)transmitters for 50.00 on ebay and use as a local emergency station...price includes shipping.

http://shop.ebay.com/electronicca/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=

[steve86]

Experience with the HF, long range stuff includes antenna tuning, amplifier (500+ watt) tuning and operating, different modes including keyboard to keyboard modes like RTTY and PSK31 ...

Yes, most of that would be foreign to me except for the antenna tuning.

But I am talking only 'bout a 2m handheld here. Have a good 12th!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I have my radio shack all tweaked, tuned and humming along.

I, too, have envisioned a time to come when my beautiful radios, amps and mics will be as essential as gasoline, food and ammo.

[halfright]

The Bencher with the clear plastic paddles is sitting just to the left of my beer. I had to look close to see it myself...

[halfright]

Guilty as charged.

[bikerman]

Ok now your an official ham. 73s

[Erasmus]

“Barsoom” is Edgar Rice Burrough’s name for Mars

So that goofy pic from the NASA flybys would be...

The Face on the Barsoom Floor.

[miele man]

Thanks for that link. Lots of good info on it, some of which I had seen before but also some new (for me) info.

73 de RPX

[dragnet2]

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[Clinging Bitterly]

Tubes. Almost all the Ham gear I've had in 31 years is solid state, but my first HF rig was a Yaesu FT-200 (more commonly branded as the Tempo One) and I still have it.

While dusting off all my gear earlier this year I put the old dog on the air and dang if it don't still work great. I'm going to spruce it up some & sell it. I would like to get hold of a nice Kenwood 530 or 830.

[lulu16]

Hi William,

My Magnum S-3 10 meter mobile amateur transmitter just came from FedEx moments ago. My head kind of exploded when I read in the instruction manual that I have to study and take a test.

I had romantic notions from two of my favorite time travel movies, Ditto and Frequency, that all I would have to do is just fiddle with the knobs and press the talk button. Darn!

I wouldn't be doing this if Obama wasn't president. I could have used the money to buy myself a replacement food processor.

Thanks for this tread. I need it!