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A boy's passport to the world
Charlotte Observer ^
| 6/1/08
| Joe DePreist
Posted on 07/06/2008 9:19:40 AM PDT by mylife
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To: mylife
Gees...I couldn’t even spell “can’t” right!
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posted on
07/06/2008 9:48:39 AM PDT
by
econjack
(Some people are as dumb as soup.)
To: nnn0jeh
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posted on
07/06/2008 9:48:43 AM PDT
by
kalee
To: Bobalu
Yeah... that could be against ordinances LoL
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posted on
07/06/2008 9:48:53 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Hawthorn
I leave a HT tuned to 52.525 and turned on 24/7. I haven't heard anything. But I've got crap for an antenna, too. :(
/johnny
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posted on
07/06/2008 9:49:32 AM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: Bobalu
My guess is that he’s single...
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posted on
07/06/2008 9:49:37 AM PDT
by
econjack
(Some people are as dumb as soup.)
To: Bobalu
Its so cool that you can pick off Satcom.
NASA is using this SDQ-14 with a bank of those to listen to the Mars Rover.
Choose yer own frontend
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posted on
07/06/2008 9:52:45 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: mylife; Grammy
Thanks for posting this mylife.
Grammy, this ping is for Mr. G, can’t remember his posting name right now.
Neat story.
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posted on
07/06/2008 9:53:18 AM PDT
by
girlangler
(Fish Fear Me)
To: econjack
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posted on
07/06/2008 9:54:04 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: girlangler
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posted on
07/06/2008 9:54:37 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: JRandomFreeper
> I leave a HT tuned to 52.525 and turned on 24/7. <
That’s in the FM part of six meters. The DX is almost all down in the CW portion(below 50.100) and SSB portion (below 50.300) of the band.
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posted on
07/06/2008 9:54:52 AM PDT
by
Hawthorn
To: girlangler
Check out the associated Iraq Field day story
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posted on
07/06/2008 9:55:50 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: r_barton
Perchance you can join this grumpy old man for the Technician class I will be teaching starting on the 14th that will have two sub teens and several future grumpy old men as students. I have contributed to about 100 hams and upgrades since the code went away....
GRUMP GRUMP GRUMP
W5VEX, Belton Texas...
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posted on
07/06/2008 9:58:31 AM PDT
by
CenTex
(Texas has a governor for sale... Make an offer...)
To: CenTex
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posted on
07/06/2008 10:00:48 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: CenTex
Oh I for got...
Grump grump grump ;)
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posted on
07/06/2008 10:01:50 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: econjack
I bet you are right...he is most likely single LOL :-) You can phase lock a microwave oven's magnetron and drop it's usual frequency of 2.450GHz down a bit into the ham allocation at 2.39 - 2.45 GHz and use it with a dish for a powerful cw signal for moonbounce. Can put a decent signal on the surface of Mars with a big dish and 1kw at the feed point but nobody has yet heard an echo back from Mars although they keep trying. You could do it with this 110mtr x 110mtr dish at Greenbank though... 7 watts at the feed point of this monster gives you 1 megawatt erp...but hams have not yet been allowed to use it.
Here is a 50 foot dish built entirely from scratch...uses a 5" gun mount rotor...bet this guy is single as well!
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posted on
07/06/2008 10:14:13 AM PDT
by
Bobalu
(What do I know, I'm a Typical White Guy)
To: mylife; All
This is a great story of a boy & his DAD together to get a common goal. Way to go DAD...
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posted on
07/06/2008 10:14:18 AM PDT
by
TMSuchman
(If you strike me down, I'll become more powerful than you'll ever imagine!)
To: TMSuchman
The key here is that Dad has this kid understanding FOCUS at a very early age
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posted on
07/06/2008 10:17:03 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: TMSuchman
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posted on
07/06/2008 10:17:36 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: dfwgator
aaaahhh yes the good old days, built many a kit from allied radio and their Knight kits. still have QSLs from around the world during my SWL days. Actually worked one of the SWL cards when I got my ticket have both framed in my shack. Our radio club been having field day at my place going on 14 years still enjoying it. And still use CW.
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posted on
07/06/2008 10:19:16 AM PDT
by
bikerman
(_ _ . /_ _ _ /_ . . / / . . . . / . / . _ . . / . _ _ . / / . . _ / . . . //)
To: Bobalu
Hokie smokes!! I wonder what my neighborhood association would say if I tried to put up one of these babies!
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posted on
07/06/2008 10:34:34 AM PDT
by
econjack
(Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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