05-22-14 09:16 Holger Granholm wrote to Roy Witt about Storage

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In a message dated 05-21-14, Roy Witt said to Holger Granholm:

Howdy! Sam,
-snip-

The pages and text of my 1960 Radio Amateurs Handbook are still
as vibrant as they were when new. Only the binding of the back
has loosened

My 1960 copy of the Handbook has exploded into sections.

Sure the printing on the pages looks good, but handling the book
is difficult, to say the least.

In 2030 the Copyright will expire and probably someone will put it on
the internet on some site like Project Gutenberg.

A copy of The Radio Amateur's Hand Book 1922 by A. Frederick Collins is
at their web site.

It isn't current, but it is interesting to read about how to build
a Spark Transmitter.

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In a message dated 06-07-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Ed,

My 1960 copy of the Handbook has exploded into sections.

In 2030 the Copyright will expire and probably someone will put it on
the internet on some site like Project Gutenberg.

For what purpose? New handbooks are published every year.

A copy of The Radio Amateur's Hand Book 1922 by A. Frederick Collins is EV>at their web site.

It isn't current, but it is interesting to read about how to build
a Spark Transmitter.

Are you shure that 1922 is correct. I own a 1926 edition of "The Radio
Amateurs Handbook" "First edition" that was included with the purchase
of the 80th anniversary of ARRL handbook.

Please note: That 1926 Handbook was published by ARRL, not by some
A. Frederick Collins.

That 2006 handbook is still the latest on my bookshelf.

73 de Sam, OH0NC

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Greetings Holger!

A copy of The Radio Amateur's Hand Book 1922 by A. Frederick Collins
is at their web site.

It isn't current, but it is interesting to read about how to build
a Spark Transmitter.

Are you shure that 1922 is correct. I own a 1926 edition of "The
Radio Amateurs Handbook" "First edition" that was included with the purchase of the 80th anniversary of ARRL handbook.

A. Frederick Collins authored the 1922 Radio Amateur's Handbook, it isn't
by any means the Radio Ameateur's Handbook of today or even 1926. Merely a history of radio up to 1922.

Archie Frederick Collins (1869-1952) was a prolific inventor and author of
many technical and popular works on radio, science and technology. We are indebted to him for this remarkable view of Amateur Radio technology in
the early 1900s. The Radio Amateur's Hand Book, was reprinted in 2008 and
is available free online from Forgotten Books, and in paperback at

Amazon.com, 236 p, $9.01.

Please note: That 1926 Handbook was published by ARRL, not by some
A. Frederick Collins.

Modern readers need to know this is not the ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications and it was not written by Art Collins of Collins Radio. It
is actually a collection of early Amateur Radio information and projects, complete with how-to-build-it information. While the content may not have
been forward-looking for 1922, having several stages of technical history compressed into one volume is enlightening and entertaining for today's readers.


Have a day!

R\%/itt - K5RXT

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06-08-14 09:30 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Storage

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In a message dated 06-07-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Ed,

Howdy! Holger,

My 1960 copy of the Handbook has exploded into sections.

In 2030 the Copyright will expire and probably someone will put it on
the internet on some site like Project Gutenberg.

For what purpose? New handbooks are published every year.

I like using electronic copies of books.
My Pastor mentions Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan once in a while,
so I found out I could download a copy of it from Project Gutenberg.

The oldest book I have is one my GrandMother had, it was copyrighted
in 1864 and is still usable but I am careful when I look through its
pages.

It's a book about Physics and was written by Quackenbos.
The Title of the book starts out like this:
"A Natural Philosophy ....."

While I was trying to find when I was at a website that I looked for
that book a long time ago, when I found the Link in FF History I
went ahead and downloaded a .PDF of the book.

When I first looked through the old book I noticed a sentence about
a Molecule that said something such as: (This Is Not A Quote)

- there must be something Smaller than a Molecule because you can pour
a sizable amount of Sugar and Salt in a Container that is Full of
Water before the solution starts spilling out of it.
The Water Molecules must be allowing the Sugar and Salt to fit into
some kind of empty spaces in a Molecule. -

A copy of The Radio Amateur's Hand Book 1922 by A. Frederick Collins is
at their web site.

It isn't current, but it is interesting to read about how to build
a Spark Transmitter.

Are you shure that 1922 is correct. I own a 1926 edition of
"The Radio Amateurs Handbook" "First edition" that was included
with the purchase of the 80th anniversary of ARRL handbook.

Please note: That 1926 Handbook was published by ARRL, not by
some A. Frederick Collins.

Yes!, that's correct, notice that the Collins book has a space between
the words Hand and Book.

Did F. E. Handy Plagiarize Collins work when he wrote the First
"The Radio Amateur's Handbook" for the A.R.R.L. in 1926 (or 1925 as
Richard Baldwin says in the front of my 1975 RAHB)???

Go get the Wolff Hong and use it on that critter, or did that slip
under The Old Man's oversight at the A.R.R.L.?

__. ._. .. _.


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06-10-14 12:51 Roy Witt wrote to Holger Granholm about Storage

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Greetings Holger!

Howdy! Roy and Holger,
-snip-

Are you shure that 1922 is correct. I own a 1926 edition of "The
Radio Amateurs Handbook" "First edition" that was included with the purchase of the 80th anniversary of ARRL handbook.

A. Frederick Collins authored the 1922 Radio Amateur's
Handbook, it isn't by any means the Radio Ameateur's Handbook
of today or even 1926. Merely a history of radio up to 1922.

-snip-

Modern readers need to know this is not the ARRL Handbook for
Radio Communications and it was not written by Art Collins of
Collins Radio. It is actually a collection of early Amateur
Radio information and projects, complete with how-to-build-it
information. While the content may not have been
forward-looking for 1922, having several stages of technical
history compressed into one volume is enlightening and
entertaining for today's readers.

Thanks Roy, Even though I just sorta wrote something similar to Holger
I'll keep my message in the .REP packet and send it on out.

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In a message dated 06-14-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Ed,

Please note: That 1926 Handbook was published by ARRL, not by
some A. Frederick Collins.

Yes!, that's correct, notice that the Collins book has a space
between the words Hand and Book.

Did F. E. Handy Plagiarize Collins work when he wrote the First
"The Radio Amateur's Handbook" for the A.R.R.L. in 1926 (or 1925 as
Richard Baldwin says in the front of my 1975 RAHB)???

I don't know cause I wasn't along at that time.

Go get the Wolff Hong and use it on that critter, or did that slip
under The Old Man's oversight at the A.R.R.L.?

__. ._. .. _.

<BG> is easier written and read, hi.


CU L8ER,

Holger

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06-17-14 10:11 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Storage

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In a message dated 06-14-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Ed,

Howdy Holger,

Please note: That 1926 Handbook was published by ARRL, not by
some A. Frederick Collins.

Yes!, that's correct, notice that the Collins book has a space
between the words Hand and Book.

Did F. E. Handy Plagiarize Collins work when he wrote the First
"The Radio Amateur's Handbook" for the A.R.R.L. in 1926 (or 1925 as Richard Baldwin says in the front of my 1975 RAHB)???

I don't know cause I wasn't along at that time.

Me neither, I'm just going by what the Copyright Date on the Collins
book and what is written in the front pages of the A.R.R.L. books about
when their "Handbook" was created.

Go get the Wolff Hong and use it on that critter, or did that slip
under The Old Man's oversight at the A.R.R.L.?

__. ._. .. _.

<BG> is easier written and read, hi.

I knew that You and some of the others here could decode my Morse msg
for the word GRIN without looking at a Chart, and to create a puzzled
look on the readers of my msg that feel like CW is a Lost Art.

IIRC an old "Carl and Jerry" article told of them tearing into a
portable AM radio and modifying it so they could send an Emergency
Message on the local CW Traffic Net Frequency to get some needed help.

They did that because they didn't have any Ham Gear with them, just the portable battery powered radio.

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IIRC an old "Carl and Jerry" article told of them tearing into a
portable AM radio and modifying it so they could send an Emergency EV>Message on the local CW Traffic Net Frequency to get some needed help.

They did that because they didn't have any Ham Gear with them, just the EV>portable battery powered radio.

That reminde me of the Old General Test. You needed to be able to draw
from memory some circuits like a Hartley or Colpitts oscillator
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06-20-14 06:21 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Re: Storage

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IIRC an old "Carl and Jerry" article told of them tearing into a
portable AM radio and modifying it so they could send an Emergency
Message on the local CW Traffic Net Frequency to get some needed help.

They did that because they didn't have any Ham Gear with them, just the
portable battery powered radio.

That reminde me of the Old General Test. You needed to be able
to draw from memory some circuits like a Hartley or Colpitts
oscillator

Howdy! Tom,

IIRC, the General Test had 50 Questions and a score of 68 per cent was
needed to pass the Test, so that meant to me I could miss 15.

Usually I'd pass those Circuit Drawing Questions.

NNNN

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In a message dated 06-19-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

GM Ed,

__. ._. .. _.

<BG> is easier written and read, hi.

I knew that You and some of the others here could decode my Morse
msg for the word GRIN without looking at a Chart, and to create a
puzzled look on the readers of my msg that feel like CW is a Lost
Art.

In fact that means nothing to us that never had to read/write morse
characters with dots and dashes on a paper. For my (and most others)
learning morse by ear was the way we were taught and learned it.


73 de Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

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Greetings Holger!

__. ._. .. _.

is easier written and read, hi.

I knew that You and some of the others here could decode my Morse
msg for the word GRIN without looking at a Chart, and to create a
puzzled look on the readers of my msg that feel like CW is a Lost
Art.

Today, CW is a lost art, with less and less amateurs able to copy it.

In fact that means nothing to us that never had to read/write morse characters with dots and dashes on a paper. For my (and most others) learning morse by ear was the way we were taught and learned it.

In fact, learning to copy past the 'wall' at 13wpm wasn't as easy as it
was to learn to recognize words instead of characters. I'm so out of
practice these days that I don't remember Morse anymore.


Have a day!

R\%/itt - K5RXT

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06-21-14 10:13 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Storage

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In a message dated 06-19-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

GM Ed,

GM Holger ... ._ __ ,

__. ._. .. _.

<BG> is easier written and read, hi.

I knew that You and some of the others here could decode my Morse
msg for the word GRIN without looking at a Chart, and to create a puzzled look on the readers of my msg that feel like CW is a Lost
Art.

In fact that means nothing to us that never had to read/write
morse characters with dots and dashes on a paper. For my (and
most others) learning morse by ear was the way we were taught
and learned it.

Years before my Junior High School friend let me hear WWV on his
S-38 RX I got a 2 piece Telegraph Set.

It was the 'Premium' I asked for from selling some kind of merchandise
from door to door in my neighborhood.

Can't remember if what I sold was Flower and Vegetable Seeds, or Cards,
or cans of Salve.
I tried selling all three of those products from advertisments I saw on
the back pages of Comic Books I read as a child.

I never was any good at being a Salesman though.

I hadn't heard about the 'Di' and 'Dah' sounds then, all I knew about
the Code was from the Dot and Dash Chart printed on the top of each of
the 'Telegraph Sets'.

And after I became interested in becoming a Amateur Radio Operator,
it was the Chart and Examples that were Printed on the pages in the
various A.R.R.L. Paperback Books that I read to help me learn the Morse Alphabet, Numerals and Punctuation Marks from their pages.

I suppose this here LID could had written:

Dah-Dah-Dit Di-Dah-Dit Di-Dit Dah-Dit

But I didn't think of typing the 'Sounds' when I used the Underscore
and Period characters on the keyboard to 'send my GRIN message'.

There I go 'Thinking' again. Sorry. Di-Di-Di-Dit Di-Dit

There I go trying to have Fun again, Holger.

I can't help it, I was born with this plague above my shoulders and I
just have to live with it. You just have to tolerate it.

I also remember seeing a Morse Code Chart on a page in my older
brothers Boy Scout book, and probably if I had joined the Scout's I
would had been introduced to hearing the sounds of the Code instead of
just seeing it printed on pages in books.

The U.S. Army Training Manual called, IIRC
"A NMENOMIC Device For Memorizing The Internation Morse Code"
that I borrowed from the Public Library helped me a lot.

I had trouble with remembering what the characters Q X Y Z sounded
like, until I got my Novice License with the Call Sign KN4ZIQ.

ZIQ = Zero Intelligence Quotient

A week or so ago I remembered seeing the Four N's at the end of
messages coming over the Teletype when I was in the Navy, and thought
I would start using that to End My Messages in Ham Radio BBS Echos,
if I could remember to do it.

NNNN

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Greetings Ed!

GM Ed,

GM Holger ... ._ __ ,

__. ._. .. _.

<BG> is easier written and read, hi.

--. is easier to read than __. = don't have to use the shift key either.

Note the small space between the -- vs the non existant space here __.

.... .- ...- . .- -.. .- -.-- -.-.--

Have a day!

R\%/itt - K5RXT

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In a message dated 06-23-14, Roy Witt said to Holger Granholm:

GM Roy,

Today, CW is a lost art, with less and less amateurs able to copy
it.

I didn't know it before but now I do. I'm an art lover, I love Morse.

In fact, learning to copy past the 'wall' at 13wpm wasn't as easy as
it was to learn to recognize words instead of characters.

There's no trick involved, it comes naturally when you use it.

You start with learning single letters, then progress to recognise some
common "words" like RST, QTH and name. After that phase you begin to
"store" the operators name and qth in your head and continue from there
to recognize several words at a time and finally you arrive at the stage
where you copy first whole sentences and finally entire paragraphs.

I admit that I have lost at least the paragraph copying because of not
having trained that in a long time but it will come back with training.

73 de Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

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I've mentioned this before but I'll do it again.

You start with learning single letters, then progress to recognise some common "words" like RST, QTH and name. After that phase you begin to "store" the operators name and qth in your head and continue from there
to recognize several words at a time and finally you arrive at the stage where you copy first whole sentences and finally entire paragraphs.

I admit that I have lost at least the paragraph copying because of not having trained that in a long time but it will come back with training.

Getting faster and faster at it, at least for me when I got my first ham license as WN5WQN in 1952, was VERY easy after I got my first driver's license here in College Station, Texas in 1953 and started driving my first auto, a 1929 Model A Ford Victoria I bought for $60 when I was 12 years old.

Our whole family is hugely musically oriented. I'd learned Morse Code from 78RPM records mu Uncle Billy sent me from Erie, Pennsylvania from his record store there that was part of Emerson Radio and Warren Radio which he was part of the foundation for that. Then the largest competitor to Allied Electronics.

Getting stuck in traffic in my Model A Ford, I'd sing songs to my self to feel better around the traffic jams on Welborn Road next to the railroad lines that went through the middle of Texas A&M College. That road, at that time was also
Highway 6 between Houston and Dallas! Then it hit me!

Trains went slowly to keep from smushing as many Texas Aggies as possible and I
was REAL familiar with railroading even at six and seven years old. It hit me.
The steam loco whistle dah dah dit dah for crossing a road from the engineer was the letter "Q" and dit dit was to start forward was the letter "I" and dit dit dit was the letter "S". That sucked the whole relationship of a moving whatever into Morse Code! Then another deal hit me as I was stuck wait for a train jammed crisscross. I was lookng at the traffic sign for the street that crossed over the twin rail lines to right in the middle of Aggieland. I 'converted' the letters to Morse Code and echoed it from my mouth, like the whistle on the train!

POOF! I started converting all the traffic street sign letters to Morse Code as I drove along to practice going Morse Code faster and faster! Then I began doing that for all kinds of signs while I was driving! My Dad was FURIOUS when
he discovered I actually could get my Model A Ford to go 75MPH with it's 21 inch wheels! And after several months of this trick I was was WAY over 25 or 30 WPM at what I could do on CW. I had gptten my first Bug key as well. Then with my even at that time fun with relay control and so on, I started going faster and faster with just 'text' from the relay control stuff on my oscillator, listening to it with my S38 receiver.

Later on, I could use a keyboard to get to 50-60 WPM on the air, but also with my complete computer controlled entire station operations I had designed in machine language and assembly language, I actually could copy in my head around
90-100WPM or so.

All brought about by diddling with my tongue in Morse Code from street signs and billboards while driving my Model A Ford Victoria at over 70MPH even going down Texas Highway 6 back and forth to Houston, in parallel with the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. And even diddling with the numbers at names on the freight cars and engines from the trains that were going by me, even at that time close to 90-100 MPH. A heck of a lot faster than me!

Mike Luther W5WQN from N117/100 and me as NC117 here.



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Greetings Holger!

Today, CW is a lost art, with less and less amateurs able to copy
it.

I didn't know it before but now I do. I'm an art lover, I love Morse.

You are a dying breed. I learned morse to get a novice ticket c1970, then
had to give up AR for a few years for lack of money, only to have to go
through the testing again for another novice ticket, c1977. Got on the air
to practice morse in a real environment, meanwhile upgrading to
Technician. Worked morse for a while increasing my speed from 5wpm to
15wpm, enough to pass the General morse exam and eventually the Advanced.
I quit there because I had no interest in continuing with cw and the
Extra class wasn't enough to warrant further morse practice.

My interests lay more in building antennas than being on the cw portions
of the HF bands.

In fact, learning to copy past the 'wall' at 13wpm wasn't as easy as
it was to learn to recognize words instead of characters.

There's no trick involved, it comes naturally when you use it.

That's what I meant. If you use it enough, you will learn to recognize
words and not have to listen for each character. This helps to improve
your copy speed greatly.

You start with learning single letters,

Did that as a boy scout in the 50s. I knew morse code at the age of 13.
Teens aren't that interested in morse or radio as much as they are girls
at that age.

then progress to recognise some common "words" like RST, QTH and
name. After that phase you begin to "store" the operators name and
qth in your head and continue from there to recognize several words
at a time and finally you arrive at the stage where you copy first
whole sentences and finally entire paragraphs.

I never got to whole sentences and thus no paragraphs either.

I admit that I have lost at least the paragraph copying because of
not having trained that in a long time but it will come back with training.

I suspect that my HF rig, Kenwood TS520 bought c1977, has blown some pwr
supply caps as it has blown the fuse when turning it on. Someday, I'll get around to fixing that. The only other source of cw that I have is the
repeater IDers around here.


Have a day!

R\%/itt - K5RXT

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In a message dated 06-23-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

GM Holger ... ._ __ ,

.... .. . -..

Years before my Junior High School friend let me hear WWV on his
S-38 RX I got a 2 piece Telegraph Set.

Hey, I think that the first receiver I owned for ham radio was a S-38
but it was broad as a barn door so it was only an intermediate step
while I built myself a 14 tube double conversion superhet.

BTW, talking about output power I forgot that I still have a Heathkit
HA-24 PA with the HP-24 AC-power supply. It's useless however since the
pair of 872B's are "finito" probably because of overdriving with a Drake
TR-4c.

But I didn't think of typing the 'Sounds' when I used the Underscore
and Period characters on the keyboard to 'send my GRIN message'.

The underscore is a very poor substitute for a dash. Two underscores
join each other so you have to look real close if that is intended as
one or two dashes.

I also remember seeing a Morse Code Chart on a page in my older
brothers Boy Scout book, and probably if I had joined the Scout's I
would had been introduced to hearing the sounds of the Code instead

I've never been a Boy Scout even though I at one time was interested in
the concept and I really don't recall where I got this love for morse
but when I was called in for military duty (while living in Finland) I
had already started in a amateur radio license course so I asked for a placement in a signal corps battalion and where placed there.

... if u cn rd ths u 2 cn thnk up shrt clvr tglns

I prefer to send tag lines that anybody can understand, not only us
weird types called hams, hi.

CU L8ER, Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

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06-24-14 11:16 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Storage

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Greetings Ed!

Howdy! Roy,
-snip-

GM Ed,

GM Holger ... ._ __ ,

__. ._. .. _.

<BG> is easier written and read, hi.

--. is easier to read than __. = don't have to use the shift
key either.

Note the small space between the -- vs the non existant space
here __.

.... .- ...- . .- -.. .- -.-- -.-.--

I prefer using the Shifted Underscore Key because to me, using the
Hyphen Key makes the Morse Characters looks like they are being sent
with a Frequency-Shift Keyer for CW instead of turning the Oscillator
On and Off with a Telegraph Key.

. = Low Tone

- = High Tone

I still would prefer using the J-38 Key with the Plastic Base reversed
on the Key by removing the Two Screws, reversing the Base and
re-fastening the Two Screws.

I have a Vibroplex Bug too but found out I send better CW with the J-38
Key.

NNNN

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06-25-14 13:26 Roy Witt wrote to Holger Granholm about Storage

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Greetings Holger!

Today, CW is a lost art, with less and less amateurs able to copy
it.

I didn't know it before but now I do. I'm an art lover, I love Morse.

You are a dying breed. I learned morse to get a novice ticket
c1970, then had to give up AR for a few years for lack of
money, only to have to go through the testing again for another
novice ticket, c1977. Got on the air to practice morse in a

Howdy! Roy,

I didn't know the Novice License was Re-Newable.
'Twasn't when I got mine.

I know You're sure glad You could get a Novice License again.

Ham Radio has lots of different areas to interest us Hams.
We all don't do the same thing, but We Do It as Amateur Radio Operators
and Enjoy what We Do.

As I have been reading this Thread the thought has come to my mind of
how many participate in CW Contests?
I'd think that would be a fair way to find out if CW is a lost art or
not, don't You think?
73
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Years before my Junior High School friend let me hear WWV on his
S-38 RX I got a 2 piece Telegraph Set.

Hey, I think that the first receiver I owned for ham radio was a S-38
but it was broad as a barn door so it was only an intermediate step
while I built myself a 14 tube double conversion superhet.

That was my First Reciever also.
I have a Kenwood R-1000 now but do not do too much listening anymore.
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I have a Vibroplex Bug too but found out I send better CW with the J-38 EV>Key.

I have a Vibroplex also. Shows I was serious about learning Code but it
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Greetings Ed!

GM Holger ... ._ __ ,

__. ._. .. _.

<BG> is easier written and read, hi.

--. is easier to read than __. = don't have to use the shift
key either.

Note the small space between the -- vs the non existant space
here __.

.... .- ...- . .- -.. .- -.-- -.-.--

I prefer using the Shifted Underscore Key because to me, using the
Hyphen Key makes the Morse Characters looks like they are being sent
with a Frequency-Shift Keyer for CW instead of turning the Oscillator
On and Off with a Telegraph Key.

In a printed medium such as this, the spacing is what makes or breaks your morse. i.e. your D reads like an R. __. vs --. where the latter shows
enough of a space between Dahs to recognize the character.

. = Low Tone

Dit - high tone

- = High Tone

Dah - low tone

I still would prefer using the J-38 Key with the Plastic Base
reversed on the Key by removing the Two Screws, reversing the Base
and re-fastening the Two Screws.

I never used any speed aides, I was able to send faster than I could read
with a regular key.

I have a Vibroplex Bug too but found out I send better CW with the
J-38 Key.

I had a Vibroplex key, but gave it to somebody who had a better use for it
than I did.

NNNN

... I just figured out PI to the seventy-fifth decimal place.

PI are the last two letters of my original Advanced call. KB6PI

... Kissed By Six Pretty Indians

Have a day!

R\%/itt - K5RXT

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Greetings Ed!

You are a dying breed. I learned morse to get a novice ticket
c1970, then had to give up AR for a few years for lack of
money, only to have to go through the testing again for another
novice ticket, c1977. Got on the air to practice morse in a

I didn't know the Novice License was Re-Newable.
'Twasn't when I got mine.

Twasn't when I got my first one either. WN6ABE expired in 1972...the FCC changed the rules sometime in-between 1972 and 1977 and they issued me
WD6DOI as a Novice...

I know You're sure glad You could get a Novice License again.

It was the difference between being tested by my Elmer and paying a visit
to the FCC office in San Diego. It meant a Novice ticket vs a Technician ticket.

Ham Radio has lots of different areas to interest us Hams.
We all don't do the same thing, but We Do It as Amateur Radio
Operators and Enjoy what We Do.

Yeup.

As I have been reading this Thread the thought has come to my mind of
how many participate in CW Contests?

I've done that with a DX group. They were Extras, I was a Novice, then a Technician and finally a General.

I'd think that would be a fair way to find out if CW is a lost art or
not, don't You think?

It might help to clean up some of the man-made noisy interfence on the
phone bands.


Have a day!

R\%/itt - K5RXT

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In a message dated 06-25-14, Roy Witt said to Holger Granholm:

GM Roy,

I didn't know it before but now I do. I'm an art lover, I love Morse.

You are a dying breed.

Yes I know, if nothing else happens age will do it.

My interests lay more in building antennas than being on the cw
portions of the HF bands.

Until I started my own business I was a very active electronics builder
making my own receivers, transmitters and control/measuring equipment.
Needless to say, I've never bought an antenna.

Did that as a boy scout in the 50s. I knew morse code at the age of
13. Teens aren't that interested in morse or radio as much as they
are girls at that age.

That wasn't a distraction for me. I had a girlfriend in the teens who
later became my wife and co-operator as OH2QJ and then OH0ND/OH0YL.

I admit that I have lost at least the paragraph copying because of
not having trained that in a long time but it will come back with training.

I suspect that my HF rig, Kenwood TS520 bought c1977, has blown some
pwr supply caps as it has blown the fuse when turning it on.

Yeah, that's a common problem with old equipment.

CU L8ER,

Holger

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In a message dated 06-25-14, Mike Luther said to Holger Granholm:

I've mentioned this before but I'll do it again.

Hi Mike,

I admit that I have lost at least the paragraph copying because of not having trained that in a long time but it will come back with training.

Getting faster and faster at it, at least for me when I got my first
ham license as WN5WQN in 1952, was VERY easy ......

Our whole family is hugely musically oriented. I'd learned Morse
Code from 78RPM records mu Uncle Billy sent me from Erie,

Yes it helps very much if you have a musically minded brain.

seven years old. It hit me. The steam loco whistle dah dah dit dah
for crossing a road from the engineer was the letter "Q" and dit dit
was to start forward was the letter "I" and dit dit dit was the
letter "S".

The musical sound of a CQ is among the first letter combination you
learn. There are however several different learning methods based on
different theories. I'm not shure any more but IRC the course I started
before being called in to military duty started with the EISH5 letters.

POOF! I started converting all the traffic street sign letters to
Morse Code as I drove along to practice going Morse Code faster and
faster! Then I began doing that for all kinds of signs while I was
driving! My Dad was FURIOUS when he discovered I actually could get
my Model A Ford to go 75MPH with it's 21 inch wheels! And after
several months of this trick I was was WAY over 25 or 30 WPM at what
I could do on CW.

I never did that but learned by listening. When I got up to speed I
built a single paddle electronic keyer to keep the fatique away.

Later on, I could use a keyboard to get to 50-60 WPM on the air, but
also with my complete computer controlled entire station operations

I have never actually used a keyboard for sending even though I built
one from a QST article to be used with my Sinclair ZX-81 computer but
that one was succeeded by a CP/M computer and I never made another
attempt to redesign or construct another keyboard.


73 de Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

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I know You're sure glad You could get a Novice License again.

It was the difference between being tested by my Elmer and paying a visit RW>to the FCC office in San Diego. It meant a Novice ticket vs a Technician RW>ticket.

I rembember those days. They were in a waterfront building down by the
end of Broadway.

As I have been reading this Thread the thought has come to my mind of how many participate in CW Contests?

I've done that with a DX group. They were Extras, I was a Novice, then a RW>Technician and finally a General.

I'd think that would be a fair way to find out if CW is a lost art or not, don't You think?

According to me Juny QST there wil be 17 contests in July with a CW
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In a message dated 06-26-14, Tom Walker said to Holger Granholm:

GM Tom,

Hey, I think that the first receiver I owned for ham radio was a S-38

That was my First Reciever also.
I have a Kenwood R-1000 now but do not do too much listening
anymore.

My main transceiver is a Drake TR7 but I still, after many years, miss
the TR4c that I sold. In addition I have a Yaesu (Sommerkamp) FT-290R
with a 144 MHz to HF transverter. Several other VHF/UHF transceivers and
and transverters needed at my caravan site and for portable expeditions.

CU L8ER, Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

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06-25-14 09:29 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Storage

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In a message dated 06-23-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

Howdy! Holger,

GM Holger ... ._ __ ,

.... .. . -..

TKS or is it TNX that's used on CW?

Years before my Junior High School friend let me hear WWV on his
S-38 RX I got a 2 piece Telegraph Set.

Hey, I think that the first receiver I owned for ham radio was
a S-38 but it was broad as a barn door so it was only an
intermediate step while I built myself a 14 tube double
conversion superhet.

My Friends S-38 was either the C or D model, I got the E model in 1958.

BTW, talking about output power I forgot that I still have a
Heathkit HA-24 PA with the HP-24 AC-power supply. It's useless
however since the pair of 872B's are "finito" probably because
of overdriving with a Drake TR-4c.

I'm not familiar with the HA-24 RF AMP, I'll hafta go look through my collection of Heath catalogs to refresh my memory.
Later: I looked through several Heathkit catalog issues but never seen
mention of either the HA-24 or the HP-24, guess I will have to go to
a Search Site to find out.

When I read about your 872B problem I was 'thinking' the tube was a
Triode or Tetrode and couldn't find any info on it while rambling thru
the Transmitting Tubes pages in the back of my 1976 A.R.R.L. Radio
Amateur's Handbook.
So I flipped a few pages towards the front of the book and located the
page in the Index To Vacuum Tube Types for the 872A/872 and learned that
the tube is a Rectifier.

Wow! that 872B can handle 1 1/4 Amps of Current MAX at 10,000 Volts!

I remember seeing the RCA ad on the back of QST issues for their 3B28
Xenon Gas Rectifier tube and suggesting to a Ham Friend to try putting
Two of those in his Viking Valiant TX, since Two different times he had
to replace both 4-Pin Tube Sockets on the chassis for the 866 Rectifier
Tubes because of them arcing over, and maybe (???) having to replace
the 866 tubes(???).

Even though the 3B28's costs several times more than 866's did, he put
them in and those tubes solved his problems.

If there is any Xenon Gas Rectifier Tubes simular to the 872B MV tube,
like the 3B28 is to the MV 866's, I'd think that would be something to consider.

But I didn't think of typing the 'Sounds' when I used the Underscore
and Period characters on the keyboard to 'send my GRIN message'.

The underscore is a very poor substitute for a dash. Two
underscores join each other so you have to look real close if
that is intended as one or two dashes.

There I go thinking again, years ago when I learned to type while I was
in the Navy I thought the underscore looked better since it was on the
same level as the period was when I typed them on a sheet of paper.

In a later message either from You or Roy I was able to see the
difference in the small gap between two hyphens and two underscores
typed together.
There IS A Difference! but you know how it is with the old saying that
it's hard to learn an old dog a new trick.

I also remember seeing a Morse Code Chart on a page in my older
brothers Boy Scout book, and probably if I had joined the Scout's I
would had been introduced to hearing the sounds of the Code instead

I've never been a Boy Scout even though I at one time was
interested in the concept and I really don't recall where I got
this love for morse but when I was called in for military duty
(while living in Finland) I had already started in a amateur
radio license course so I asked for a placement in a signal
corps battalion and where placed there.

... if u cn rd ths u 2 cn thnk up shrt clvr tglns

I prefer to send tag lines that anybody can understand, not
only us weird types called hams, hi.

Or weird users of .QWK Readers for BBS messages. I'm Both!

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Speaking of "locationally challenged", Your mention of being in Finland
when You went into the Army, made me wonder if You are Finnish and
moved to Ahvenanmaa?
(I found that word just now with the WordWeb Dictionary) hi 73
NNNN

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06-26-14 13:05 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Storage

@MSGID: <53AC9A3B.635.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>
Greetings Ed!

Howdy! Roy,

GM Holger ... ._ __ ,

__. ._. .. _.

<BG> is easier written and read, hi.

--. is easier to read than __. = don't have to use the shift
key either.

Note the small space between the -- vs the non existant space
here __.

Thanks, I couldn't remember who wrote that to me while I was writing a
Reply to Holger.

.... .- ...- . .- -.. .- -.-- -.-.--

I prefer using the Shifted Underscore Key because to me, using the
Hyphen Key makes the Morse Characters looks like they are being sent
with a Frequency-Shift Keyer for CW instead of turning the Oscillator
On and Off with a Telegraph Key.

In a printed medium such as this, the spacing is what makes or
breaks your morse. i.e. your D reads like an R. __. vs --.
where the latter shows enough of a space between Dahs to
recognize the character.

D typed my way, _.. R. would look like, ._. .

Oh!, I think You meant "your G" instead "your D" above???

. = Low Tone

Dit - high tone

- = High Tone

Dah - low tone

I didn't know of a FSK CW Standard when I chose what Tone for the Morse
Code Elements.

I saw Your line of CW as a period being lower in elevation than the
hyphen was, so I assigned the Tones as they looked to me on my screen.

I still would prefer using the J-38 Key with the Plastic Base
reversed on the Key by removing the Two Screws, reversing the Base
and re-fastening the Two Screws.

I never used any speed aides, I was able to send faster than I
could read with a regular key.

A J-38 Key is IIRC a Military Number for a Hand Key, I'm surprised that
You thought it was a "speed aid".

The Plastic? (Phenolic?, Bakelite?) Base the Key was mounted on allowed
the Knob on the Key Lever to extend over the operating table, instead
of over the Base, and to use the Key to send CW I would have to hold
the other end of the Key down so it wouldn't flip up and down when I
was sending CW.

I learned of a 'Tip' to reverse the Base so the Knob would be over some
of the Base and I wouldn't have to hold the Key down when I used it,
the 'Tip' IIRC was printed in a A.R.R.L. Book called "Hints and Kinks".

I have a Vibroplex Bug too but found out I send better CW with the
J-38 Key.

I had a Vibroplex key, but gave it to somebody who had a better
use for it than I did.

I thought of building an Accu-Keyer and getting a Key for it, but never
did.

... I just figured out PI to the seventy-fifth decimal place.

PI are the last two letters of my original Advanced call. KB6PI

... Kissed By Six Pretty Indians

I've used Zero Intelligence Quotient, Washers Screws and Bolts and now
Old Dirty Rat (or Oldsmobile Dodge and Ramblers).
73
NNNN

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06-26-14 09:20 Holger Granholm wrote to Roy Witt about Re: Storage

@MSGID: <53AD4A02.637.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>
In a message dated 06-25-14, Roy Witt said to Holger Granholm:

Howdy! Holger,

I suspect that my HF rig, Kenwood TS520 bought c1977, has blown some
pwr supply caps as it has blown the fuse when turning it on.

Yeah, that's a common problem with old equipment.

While I was in the Ham Shack I glanced at my Log and the last time I
fired up my TS-520S was in 2001 while it was still connected to the
20M antenna.

I suppose I could give it a "Smoke Test" by loading it in the Heathkit Cantenna.

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communications.

Yep!, That's the truth!
73
NNNN

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06-26-14 06:54 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Re: Storage

@MSGID: <53AC9A39.634.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>

I have a Vibroplex Bug too but found out I send better CW with the J-38
Key.

I have a Vibroplex also. Shows I was serious about learning
Code but it just did not work out for me.

Howdy! Tom,

I looked at the bottom of my Vibroplex and it is a Champion model.

I bought it in 1961 at a Amateur Radio Store in Oakland, CA.
I got the Bug Case there too.
NNNN

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06-26-14 13:13 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Storage

@MSGID: <53AC9A3B.636.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>
Greetings Ed!

Howdy! Roy,
-snip-

As I have been reading this Thread the thought has come to my mind of
how many participate in CW Contests?

I've done that with a DX group. They were Extras, I was a
Novice, then a Technician and finally a General.

I was asked to keep the Log beside a High Speed CW OT OP the first
Field Day I participated in after I got back home from the Navy.

The Op would ask me, "did You get that?" and I say "sure".

That went on for a few contacts and when I told him when I was in Navy
Radioman School my CW RCVing Speed got up to 26WPM, after I told him
that he never ask me anything again except if the station he was
calling was a Dupe contact.
They gave me a Flip-Top Telephone Index for a Dupe Log, to write the
Call Signs down of the Stations we already worked on that frequency,
and usually I'd let him know if the Station had already been worked
before he'd have the chance to ask me.

Back when I listened to the W1AW Code Practice audio a few months ago,
I found out how rusty I was at copying High Speed CW.

I'd think that would be a fair way to find out if CW is a lost art or
not, don't You think?

It might help to clean up some of the man-made noisy interfence
on the phone bands.

I'd say have everyone go back to using AM then. hi
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06-25-14 09:29 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Storage

@MSGID: <53ABF883.632.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>
In a message dated 06-23-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

GM Holger ... ._ __ ,

.... .. . -..

Howdy! Again Holger,
-snip-

BTW, talking about output power I forgot that I still have a
Heathkit HA-24 PA with the HP-24 AC-power supply. It's useless
however since the pair of 872B's are "finito" probably because
of overdriving with a Drake TR-4c.

I just finished my Search for Heathkit HA-24.

I Found out Your AMP is a HA-14 using 572B's.

That reveals to me that You use the Numeric Keypad. snicker
(I do too).

Triodes do work better in a RF AMP than Rectifiers don't they???? ??
73
NNNN

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Hey, I think that the first receiver I owned for ham radio was a S-38

That was my First Reciever also.
I have a Kenwood R-1000 now but do not do too much listening
anymore.

My main transceiver is a Drake TR7 but I still, after many years, miss
the TR4c that I sold. In addition I have a Yaesu (Sommerkamp) FT-290R
with a 144 MHz to HF transverter. Several other VHF/UHF transceivers and
and transverters needed at my caravan site and for portable expeditions.

CU L8ER, Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

My base units consist of a Kenwood TS-130, TS-440 and a TS-50
the Mobile units are a Kenwood TR-7730 144M, Icom IC-2330A 144/220 and a
Alinco DR-635 144/440
Plus an assortment of handhelds for 144/220/440

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06-26-14 06:54 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Re: Storage

@MSGID: <53AC9A39.634.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>

I have a Vibroplex Bug too but found out I send better CW with the

J-38

Key.

I have a Vibroplex also. Shows I was serious about learning
Code but it just did not work out for me.

Howdy! Tom,

I looked at the bottom of my Vibroplex and it is a Champion model.

I bought it in 1961 at a Amateur Radio Store in Oakland, CA.
I got the Bug Case there too.

Mine is a Vibroplex Classic No 43094

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In a message dated 06-27-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

While I was in the Ham Shack I glanced at my Log and the last time I
fired up my TS-520S was in 2001 while it was still connected to the
20M antenna.

I suppose I could give it a "Smoke Test" by loading it in the
Heathkit Cantenna.

* MR/2 2.30 * Smoke signals: The dawn of digital
communications.

Yeah, do that and you'll get back to the dawn of digital communications.

73 de Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

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In a message dated 06-29-14, Tom Walker said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Tom,

My base units consist of a Kenwood TS-130, TS-440 and a TS-50
the Mobile units are a Kenwood TR-7730 144M, Icom IC-2330A 144/220
and a Alinco DR-635 144/440
Plus an assortment of handhelds for 144/220/440

Yeah, I know that Kenwood makes excellent kitchen machines <BG>.

CU AGN,

Holger

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06-29-14 12:05 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Storage

@MSGID: <53B13E82.650.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>
In a message dated 06-27-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

While I was in the Ham Shack I glanced at my Log and the last time I
fired up my TS-520S was in 2001 while it was still connected to the
20M antenna.

I suppose I could give it a "Smoke Test" by loading it in the
Heathkit Cantenna.

* MR/2 2.30 * Smoke signals: The dawn of digital
communications.

Yeah, do that and you'll get back to the dawn of digital
communications.

Howdy! Holger,

While I was searching for the HEATHKIT Catalog I flipped the Power
Switch and the Filament Switch on the TS-520S to ON.

After finding that 1967 catalog I loaded up the XCVR to the Cantenna.

It dipped to 200 ma CW in the IP Meter Position and I didn't SEE or
SMELL any Smoke in the Ham Shack.
73
NNNN

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In a message dated 06-29-14, Tom Walker said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Tom,

My base units consist of a Kenwood TS-130, TS-440 and a TS-50
the Mobile units are a Kenwood TR-7730 144M, Icom IC-2330A 144/220 HG>TW> and a Alinco DR-635 144/440
Plus an assortment of handhelds for 144/220/440

Yeah, I know that Kenwood makes excellent kitchen machines <BG>.

Actually the 3 kenwood units were gifts so the price was rignt.
the Kenwood mobile is really ond. It is a TRUE FM unit with me repeater capability not PL tones. BUT was great for simplex emergency
communications when I was into that for a local Group.
I had a hitch mount with a 10 foot mast and a 10 foot 144 antenna.
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Greetings Ed!

In a printed medium such as this, the spacing is what makes or
breaks your morse. i.e. your D reads like an R. __. vs --.
where the latter shows enough of a space between Dahs to
recognize the character.

D typed my way, _.. R. would look like, ._. .

(slaps forhead)

-.. is a D, .-. is an R...(memory lapse is my excuse)

Oh!, I think You meant "your G" instead "your D" above???

-.. . .-. --- -.-- - .... .. ... .. ... .- --. (G).

. = Low Tone

Dit - high tone

- = High Tone

Dah - low tone

I didn't know of a FSK CW Standard when I chose what Tone for the
Morse Code Elements.

I saw Your line of CW as a period being lower in elevation than the
hyphen was, so I assigned the Tones as they looked to me on my
screen.

I used the way they would sound vs what they looked like.

I still would prefer using the J-38 Key with the Plastic Base
reversed on the Key by removing the Two Screws, reversing the Base
and re-fastening the Two Screws.

I never used any speed aides, I was able to send faster than I
could read with a regular key.

A J-38 Key is IIRC a Military Number for a Hand Key, I'm surprised
that You thought it was a "speed aid".

I no longer have a key, but I do remember the military type of key, which
is what I used, exclusively.

The Plastic? (Phenolic?, Bakelite?) Base the Key was mounted on
allowed the Knob on the Key Lever to extend over the operating table, instead of over the Base, and to use the Key to send CW I would have
to hold the other end of the Key down so it wouldn't flip up and down
when I was sending CW.

I fixed that problem by mounting the key to a 1/2" thick brass plate with rubber feet.

I learned of a 'Tip' to reverse the Base so the Knob would be over
some of the Base and I wouldn't have to hold the Key down when I used
it, the 'Tip' IIRC was printed in a A.R.R.L. Book called "Hints and Kinks".

You could have done as I did, but instead use old wheel weights (lead and antimony) to make yourself a mounting plate.

I have a Vibroplex Bug too but found out I send better CW with the
J-38 Key.

I had a Vibroplex key, but gave it to somebody who had a better
use for it than I did.

I thought of building an Accu-Keyer and getting a Key for it, but
never did.

... I just figured out PI to the seventy-fifth decimal place.

PI are the last two letters of my original Advanced call. KB6PI

... Kissed By Six Pretty Indians

I've used Zero Intelligence Quotient, Washers Screws and Bolts and
now Old Dirty Rat (or Oldsmobile Dodge and Ramblers). 73

WN6ABE - ?
WD6DOI - Washed Down 6 Dirty Old Indian (and more)
N6AGT - Number 6 After Giving Two
K6RXT - see next
K5RXT - King 5 Really Xtra Terrific

Have a day!

R\%/itt - K5RXT

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07-01-14 13:08 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Storage

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Howdy! Roy,
-snip-

. = Low Tone

Dit - high tone

- = High Tone

Dah - low tone

I didn't know of a FSK CW Standard when I chose what Tone for the
Morse Code Elements.

I saw Your line of CW as a period being lower in elevation than the
hyphen was, so I assigned the Tones as they looked to me on my
screen.

I used the way they would sound vs what they looked like.

I used Audio Frequency Shift Morse Code on HF SSB to ID my station.

On HF SSB I listened to a W1AW RTTY broadcast and adjusted the Mark and
Space Pots on my 'Rube Goldberg' Audio RTTY Demodulator until the two
LEDs lit up and I could see Text being printed on my TV set screen.

Then, while still in RX Mode, IIRC I would adjust the Pots for the Mark
and Space Tones on my 'Rube Goldberg' Audio Frequency Shift Oscillator
to light up the LED for Mark on the Demodulator with the Key UP, and
the LED for Space with the Key DOWN.

When the W1AW broadcast was over I switch to TX and typed a line for
CQ , my Call Sign and typed K at the end and got answered by someone
and had my first HF RTTY QSO.

I have no idea what frequency I had set the Pots on the AFSK Osc for,
I just matched the tones of what worked to receive the W1AW broadcast.
At least the Shift was 850 cps and to me that is all that mattered.

IIRC the lower tone is used for the Space and the higher tone is Mark.
-snip-

The Plastic? (Phenolic?, Bakelite?) Base the Key was mounted on
allowed the Knob on the Key Lever to extend over the operating table, instead of over the Base, and to use the Key to send CW I would have
to hold the other end of the Key down so it wouldn't flip up and down
when I was sending CW.

I fixed that problem by mounting the key to a 1/2" thick brass
plate with rubber feet.

I learned of a 'Tip' to reverse the Base so the Knob would be over
some of the Base and I wouldn't have to hold the Key down when I used
it, the 'Tip' IIRC was printed in a A.R.R.L. Book called "Hints and Kinks".

You could have done as I did, but instead use old wheel weights
(lead and antimony) to make yourself a mounting plate.

I'm a cheap LID Roy, Brass cost $$$$$$ , using a screwdriver to loosen
the two screws holding the key to the base, and to tighten them back
just cost me a little energy. <GRIN>
73
NNNN

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In a message dated 06-30-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

GE Ed,

It has been a busy day today so that's why I continue with echo mail now

Also we had a taste of summer with 17° C so I made a 10 km scandinavian
walk dressed in shorts and shortsleeved shirt.

For tomorrow we have varying forecasts between 14° and 21° in the
afternoon so the meteos have covered themselves, hi.

I suppose I could give it a "Smoke Test" by loading it in the
Heathkit Cantenna.

Yeah, do that and you'll get back to the dawn of digital
communications.

While I was searching for the HEATHKIT Catalog I flipped the Power
Switch and the Filament Switch on the TS-520S to ON.

After finding that 1967 catalog I loaded up the XCVR to the
Cantenna.

It dipped to 200 ma CW in the IP Meter Position and I didn't SEE or
SMELL any Smoke in the Ham Shack.

To make the smoke test you don't even have to connect a dummy load.
The HV is normally highest while the transceiver is idling because the
HV is there all the time while the final tubes are only cut-off by the
grid bias.

You was lucky that no smoke emerged but don't feel safe yet. It may come
next time you switch on the transceiver. Normally, starting up old tubes
you should let only the filaments on (at reduced voltage ) fopr several
hours to burn away the gases that have leaked in because the glass seals
for the tube element wires are not air tight.

Then switch on the HV while feeding a reduced (via a variac) mains
voltage to the transmitter to let the electrolytics recover from a long
hiatus. After that the mains supply voltage may be slowly increased
while smelling for smoke or listening for arcing.

73
NNNN

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CU L8ER, Sam, OH0NC

Holger
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In a message dated 07-01-14, Tom Walker said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Tom,

Yeah, I know that Kenwood makes excellent kitchen machines <BG>.

Actually the 3 kenwood units were gifts so the price was rignt.

For that price you can certainly use them as long as you wish and not
even be sad if they go west.

the Kenwood mobile is really ond. It is a TRUE FM unit with me
repeater capability not PL tones. BUT was great for simplex
emergency communications when I was into that for a local Group.

None of my handhelds do have PL nor CTC tones. My mobile rig, a FT-290
all mode transceiver doesn't fit into my present car so I use a hand-
held to a mobile magnet mount antenna onthe middle of the roof.

CU L8ER,

Holger

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None of my handhelds do have PL nor CTC tones. My mobile rig, a FT-290 HG>all mode transceiver doesn't fit into my present car so I use a hand- HG>held to a mobile magnet mount antenna onthe middle of the roof.

All of my Handhelds do. My Favorate is the Yaesu FT-530 because I picked
up a 10 cell akaline battery holder for it giving me the fill 5 watt
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In a message dated 07-03-14, Tom Walker said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Tom,

All of my Handhelds do. My Favorate is the Yaesu FT-530 because I
picked up a 10 cell akaline battery holder for it giving me the fill
5 watt capability

I've got a 5-cell alkaline cassette for my Standard C-111 (jap.) but
haven't yet got an alkaline holder for my Icom IC-90.

CUL,

Holger

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07-02-14 21:38 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Storage

@MSGID: <53B53308.658.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>
In a message dated 06-30-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

GE Ed,

GM Holger,

It has been a busy day today so that's why I continue with echo
mail now

Also we had a taste of summer with 17. C so I made a 10 km
scandinavian walk dressed in shorts and shortsleeved shirt.

Glad to hear the WX has improved in Your area.
WX here is in the 59F/15C to 79F/25C range today and expected to reach
88F/31C B4 Sunday Night when we have a chance of Rain.

For tomorrow we have varying forecasts between 14. and 21. in
the afternoon so the meteos have covered themselves, hi.

I think "the WXman makes a new forecast every hour".
But that's their job.

I suppose I could give it a "Smoke Test" by loading it in the
Heathkit Cantenna.

Yeah, do that and you'll get back to the dawn of digital
communications.

While I was searching for the HEATHKIT Catalog I flipped the Power
Switch and the Filament Switch on the TS-520S to ON.

After finding that 1967 catalog I loaded up the XCVR to the
Cantenna.

It dipped to 200 ma CW in the IP Meter Position and I didn't SEE or
SMELL any Smoke in the Ham Shack.

To make the smoke test you don't even have to connect a dummy
load. The HV is normally highest while the transceiver is
idling because the HV is there all the time while the final
tubes are only cut-off by the grid bias.

You was lucky that no smoke emerged but don't feel safe yet. It
may come next time you switch on the transceiver. Normally,
starting up old tubes you should let only the filaments on (at
reduced voltage ) fopr several hours to burn away the gases
that have leaked in because the glass seals for the tube
element wires are not air tight.

I was thumbing through those Heathkit Catalogs about 35 minutes before
I tuned up the rig.

I saw the comment You wrote to Tom about gases leaking into old tubes,
I never heard of that b4, Thanks for sharing that.

Then switch on the HV while feeding a reduced (via a variac)
mains voltage to the transmitter to let the electrolytics
recover from a long hiatus. After that the mains supply voltage
may be slowly increased while smelling for smoke or listening
for arcing.

Yes, it is better to be safe than sorry.
I hadn't thought of starting out with a lower A.C. Voltage.
I may have a Variac, can't remember for sure, but think I got one at a
Ham Radio Flea Market a long time ago but never used it for anything.

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Hi Tom,

All of my Handhelds do. My Favorate is the Yaesu FT-530 because I
picked up a 10 cell akaline battery holder for it giving me the fill HG>TW> 5 watt capability

I've got a 5-cell alkaline cassette for my Standard C-111 (jap.) but HG>haven't yet got an alkaline holder for my Icom IC-90.

When i was active in an Emergency Communications net I would buy the
"AA" batteries in the 40 cell pack. Always had two packs in ready
reserve.

I also had a Group 29 Lead Acid Battery for home use of my Alinco Mobile
unit. On low power it would power the mobile unit for a little over 10
days
Just berfore dropping out of Ham Radio I was considering getting a 45
watt solar panel set to for charging the battery

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In a message dated 07-05-14, Tom Walker said to Holger Granholm:

GM Tom,

I also had a Group 29 Lead Acid Battery for home use of my Alinco
Mobile unit. On low power it would power the mobile unit for a
little over 10 days

I have a portable 12V power pack consisting of two 8 A/h batteries
installed into an old 1 gallon plastic oil container. It's nice to have
a carrying handle. They are mostly used for 10 GHz hilltop operations.

CU AGN,

Holger

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I also had a Group 29 Lead Acid Battery for home use of my Alinco
Mobile unit. On low power it would power the mobile unit for a
little over 10 days

I have a portable 12V power pack consisting of two 8 A/h batteries HG>installed into an old 1 gallon plastic oil container. It's nice to have
a carrying handle. They are mostly used for 10 GHz hilltop operations.

I modified a Automobile Jump Starter unit into a portable power supply
tor the group I used to work with. I picked that particualr unit because
it had a trickle charger base it sits in when not in use.
It had an internal 15 A/h battery in it. I removed the jumper cables
and installed a power pole connector and a digital volt meter. It was
good for about 24 hours running a 5 watt unit.
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Greetings Ed!

As I have been reading this Thread the thought has come to my mind
of how many participate in CW Contests?

I've done that with a DX group. They were Extras, I was a
Novice, then a Technician and finally a General.

I was asked to keep the Log beside a High Speed CW OT OP the first
Field Day I participated in after I got back home from the Navy.

c1960?

The Op would ask me, "did You get that?" and I say "sure".

That went on for a few contacts and when I told him when I was in
Navy Radioman School my CW RCVing Speed got up to 26WPM, after I told
him that he never ask me anything again except if the station he was calling was a Dupe contact. They gave me a Flip-Top Telephone Index
for a Dupe Log, to write the Call Signs down of the Stations we
already worked on that frequency, and usually I'd let him know if the Station had already been worked before he'd have the chance to ask
me.

CW conversations are fun. But I never got that excited about them.

Back when I listened to the W1AW Code Practice audio a few months
ago, I found out how rusty I was at copying High Speed CW.

Heh! Sometimes I have a hard time copying the IDer on a repeater and have
to listen to it a couple of times to get it. Now that's rusty!

I'd think that would be a fair way to find out if CW is a lost art
or not, don't You think?

It might help to clean up some of the man-made noisy interfence
on the phone bands.

I'd say have everyone go back to using AM then. hi

Unnnn, that would only add to the noise...

Have a day!

R\%/itt - K5RXT

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Greetings TOM!

I know You're sure glad You could get a Novice License again.

It was the difference between being tested by my Elmer and paying a
visit to the FCC office in San Diego. It meant a Novice ticket vs a
Technician ticket.

I rembember those days. They were in a waterfront building down by
the end of Broadway.

That's what I had heard, but was never there. I did visit their offices
after they moved to La Mesa? on University or EC Blvd.

As I have been reading this Thread the thought has come to my
mind of how many participate in CW Contests?

I've done that with a DX group. They were Extras, I was a Novice,
then a Technician and finally a General.

I'd think that would be a fair way to find out if CW is a lost
art or not, don't You think?

According to me Juny QST there wil be 17 contests in July with a CW section. 12 of those will be CW only

Wonderful. If you listen in on those, see if you can pick out K6XT...he'll
no doubt be in the extra bands.


Have a day!

R\%/itt - K5RXT

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07-06-14 09:36 Holger Granholm wrote to Tom Walker about Re: Storage

@MSGID: <53BA7902.666.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>
In a message dated 07-05-14, Tom Walker said to Holger
Granholm:

GM Tom,

I also had a Group 29 Lead Acid Battery for home use of my Alinco
Mobile unit. On low power it would power the mobile unit for a
little over 10 days

I have a portable 12V power pack consisting of two 8 A/h
batteries installed into an old 1 gallon plastic oil container.
It's nice to have a carrying handle. They are mostly used for
10 GHz hilltop operations.

Holger and Tom,

You All talking about Batteries reminded me of a Ham I know who said he
had a Belt he could wear that had a Gel Cell Battery on one side and a
Regency HR-2 on the other side of the belt that he could go Portable
with.

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I know You're sure glad You could get a Novice License again.

It was the difference between being tested by my Elmer and paying a RW>> visit to the FCC office in San Diego. It meant a Novice ticket vs a RW>> Technician ticket.

I rembember those days. They were in a waterfront building down by
the end of Broadway.

That's what I had heard, but was never there. I did visit their offices RW>after they moved to La Mesa? on University or EC Blvd.

the only reason I knew about it is because during my First Enlistment I
decided to get my 1st Class RadioTtelephone licence so I could get a job
in that field after getting out.
I got a chance to get into the Navy Submarine Nuclear Power Program and re-enlisted so that goal died.
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GM Tom,

I also had a Group 29 Lead Acid Battery for home use of my Alinco Mobile unit. On low power it would power the mobile unit for a
little over 10 days

I have a portable 12V power pack consisting of two 8 A/h
batteries installed into an old 1 gallon plastic oil container.
It's nice to have a carrying handle. They are mostly used for
10 GHz hilltop operations.

Holger and Tom,

You All talking about Batteries reminded me of a Ham I know who said he EV>had a Belt he could wear that had a Gel Cell Battery on one side and a EV>Regency HR-2 on the other side of the belt that he could go Portable EV>with.

I rembember those. They got the Idea from the Remote TV Truck people.
They have belt mounted battery packs for their TV camera men
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07-07-14 15:36 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Storage

@MSGID: <53BBCA82.670.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>
Greetings Ed!

Howdy! Roy,

As I have been reading this Thread the thought has come to my mind
of how many participate in CW Contests?

I've done that with a DX group. They were Extras, I was a
Novice, then a Technician and finally a General.

I was asked to keep the Log beside a High Speed CW OT OP the first
Field Day I participated in after I got back home from the Navy.

c1960?

Yep!, it was on Field Day in 1963.

The Op would ask me, "did You get that?" and I say "sure".

That went on for a few contacts and when I told him when I was in
Navy Radioman School my CW RCVing Speed got up to 26WPM, after I told
him that he never ask me anything again except if the station he was calling was a Dupe contact. They gave me a Flip-Top Telephone Index
for a Dupe Log, to write the Call Signs down of the Stations we
already worked on that frequency, and usually I'd let him know if the Station had already been worked before he'd have the chance to ask
me.

CW conversations are fun. But I never got that excited about
them.

I've said this B4, so please bear with me again:

"when about 6 Hams going to the same High School (most of them Novices,
and a couple of Generals) decided to have a 80M CW Round Table QSO on a Saturday Morning with a request that no one tries to send faster than
everyone in the QSO can copy easily.".

I was a Novice in 1959, and That Round Table QSO Was One Of My Most
Precious Memories of Amateur Radio I've had in ALL my Years of being
Licensed as an Amateur Radio Operator.

A few months later Al Hall K4CSH came down on 3720 Kcs to find out if
any of us there were interest in starting up a Traffic Net on that
frequency that the old Kentucky Novice Net (KNN) used to be held on.

Several of us were interested and Al invited us to his QTH to get
acquainted with each other and to learn more about Handling Message
Traffic.

I was a KNN Member (also Net Control Station one day a week) until I
left for Navy Boot Camp.

Back when I listened to the W1AW Code Practice audio a few months
ago, I found out how rusty I was at copying High Speed CW.

Heh! Sometimes I have a hard time copying the IDer on a
repeater and have to listen to it a couple of times to get it.
Now that's rusty!

Practice makes perfect, and when I listened to that High Speed CW XMSN
on that day, I found out I wasn't perfect.

I'd think that would be a fair way to find out if CW is a lost art
or not, don't You think?

It might help to clean up some of the man-made noisy interfence
on the phone bands.

I'd say have everyone go back to using AM then. hi

Unnnn, that would only add to the noise...

AM Hams know how to Zero Beat some ones signal so everyone is On Freq.

Unless I actually know what someones Voice Sounds Like when I am
listening to them talk on SSB I never can Tune them in correctly.

When I bought my first SSB Rig it HAD to have a RIT Circuit in it
because I didn't want to start Creepine Up or Down the Band with the
Main Tuning Knob when I was talking to someone on SSB, as i had heard
happening many times before when I was just listening to Sidebanders
having a QSO and noticed when they replied to someone during the QSO
that the frequency the stations were using kept changing and changing.

If Manufacturers would put a Carrier Control Knob on the Front Panels
of their SSB gear so at the start of a QSO a station could Increase the
Carrier just enough so the other station(s) could Zero Beat it,
and then Reset the Control to the Minimum position,
I'd think it would be of Great Help for the person on the Receiving End
to know what that Ham he was talking to sounded like.

I know my opinions ouly count with Me and Me Only.
73 es thanks for reading.
NNNN

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07-07-14 15:41 Roy Witt wrote to TOM WALKER about Storage

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@REPLY: <53ADEBBA.639.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>

-snip-

As I have been reading this Thread the thought has come to my
mind of how many participate in CW Contests?

I've done that with a DX group. They were Extras, I was a Novice,
then a Technician and finally a General.

I'd think that would be a fair way to find out if CW is a lost
art or not, don't You think?

According to me Juny QST there wil be 17 contests in July with a CW section. 12 of those will be CW only

Wonderful. If you listen in on those, see if you can pick out
K6XT...he'll no doubt be in the extra bands.

Howdy! Roy,

If I listened for K6XT in the Extra Band I would just be a SWL because
I couldn't Work Him.

I never liked the Polarization the A.R.R.L. Created amongst Amateur
Radio Operators when They suggested Incentitive Licensing to the F.C.C.
And The F.C.C. Regulations Segmented General Class from Advanced Class
from Amateur Extra Class on the High Frequency Bands.

When They did that They Were NOT Serving The Amateur Radio Community!

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In a message dated 07-07-14, Tom Walker said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Tom,

I modified a Automobile Jump Starter unit into a portable power
supply tor the group I used to work with. I picked that particualr
unit because it had a trickle charger base it sits in when not in
use. It had an internal 15 A/h battery in it. I removed the jumper
cables and installed a power pole connector and a digital volt
meter. It was good for about 24 hours running a 5 watt unit.

I don't want to have any extra weight to carry along with the parabolic
dish, transceiver and the tripod for the dish. The transverter for the
10 GHz band is mounted behind the dish and the 144 MHz transceiver for
the IF is a Yaesu/Sommerkamp FT-290.

All that has to be carried uphill and/or to a position that is free from obstructions, preferably in a single trip.

Have a nice day,

Holger

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[FCC offices]

That's what I had heard, but was never there. I did visit their
offices after they moved to La Mesa? on University or EC Blvd.

the only reason I knew about it is because during my First Enlistment
I decided to get my 1st Class RadioTtelephone licence so I could get
a job in that field after getting out. I got a chance to get into the Navy Submarine Nuclear Power Program and re-enlisted so that goal
died.

Which of the two paid more on the outside, once you did get out?

I never bothered to check as is my working life I was more interested in Personal Satisfaction than the money.
And I got the Perfect Job for that when I did retire from the navy in
1971 by working at the local VA Medical Center in the Engineering
Department. My responsibility was care and maintenance of Critical Care
Patient Monitoring equipment.
The Feeling of having done something significant is worth FAR more
than money.

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Hi Hol(y) Ham Man!

The more and more I hear the 'news' these days, the more it drills into me the absolute positive relationship that Ham Radio has had on the whole human tribe.
Even, chuckle, if you go back to the beginning of that and think with Re-Morse!

The musical sound of a CQ is among the first letter combination you
learn. There are however several different learning methods based on different theories. I'm not shure any more but IRC the course I started before being called in to military duty started with the EISH5 letters.

I have never actually used a keyboard for sending even though I built
one from a QST article to be used with my Sinclair ZX-81 computer but
that one was succeeded by a CP/M computer and I never made another
attempt to redesign or construct another keyboard.

Morse Code is, yes, a digital way of getting information from our brains across
even the whole world, chuckle. One of the most impressive moments of my life as a kid was when I had extended my RF power on 40 meter CW from a 6L6 to an 807, then to an 811 and up to the first 4-250. It was in the dark hours back in my shack room to the dark hours on the other of the Earth. Behind our garage
on a very quiet none noisy dark night I was being a bug boy with a good friend of mine in Perth Australia. The conditions on 40 Meters were so good that morning/evening both of us had S9 signals on each end. I was curious; how low power could I go and he would still be able to hear me? We did a 'little' experiment.

I started reducing my power and sending him the power level on CW and he'd come
back and tell me he could still hear me. Down, down, down it went. I was STUNNED. It was a dark moon night; only starlight outside under my 40 meter dipole up 30 feet in the air. I got down to ONE WATT output power.

HE COULD STILL HEAR ME!

Both of us were totally shocked! After we parted company in that QSO, I was so
stunned with what I had learned however I realized I'd better get ready for my morning newspaper boy run on my Cushman Motor Scooter. I had to do that every morning just to even have money to eat. As I walked out the door to go get started on that, I had my five cell battery flashlight in my hand in the very dark night. It hit me!

The wattage of that flashlight bulb was about one watt! I froze in my walk out
in the back yard, shaking. I looked up into the dark clear sky at the stars and pointed the flashlight up into the sky. I pushed the button turn-on switch
on the light and sent Morse Code 'CQ" up into the sky toward Perth, looking at how little up into the sky that one watt beam was able to go! That's as far as
a one watt beam could be seen in light? Yet a one watt beam on 40 meter CW could be heard in Perth, Australia from College Station, Texas in the USA? Then it really hit me! There really is something bigger than all of this on this Earth, no matter what culture or tribe you belong to Mike.

But wait! If there were a thousand people even all over not
Austrailia but even out on the ocean of an many other countries
even THEY could hear me even with a ONE WATT communications
'Call-to-Quarters'. Even 'Call-to-Quarters-Distress'. Or SOS.

But Mike, not only for things of distress. Also as to how to hide not only a few letters that took the place of words to reach out for help to even thousands of people in maybe in need, from even a tiny force that nobody might even understand of the power it had. So that I could continue even more toward
my purpose here on this Earth as I even knew from my family training and actions even fron three or four years of age. To carry everyone upward I encounter with the highest possible choice for decisions they make and never poke folks in the side to lie, cheat and steal from them. Though it is perfectly honest to make a fair profit on what you do in life.

And look where Ham Radio has gone now! BYOD, BFOM, plus all even bad this and that, together with even encryption of letter codes that can be done even though they look neat to unaware folksee's.

But interestingly, even Fido can still do a very important honorable job of caring for people and carrying even all of us upward in life without poking people in the side. Even back to ring level and interrupt level code that can Dis And Dat even all over the whole Earth for thousands of people to hear in good weather. At even a watt or two of power. From Ham Radio remote sites on CW even on a few watts around the world. If you want it to. And the HAARP ain't playing, chuckle. Or the Chemtrails ain't moosing the Ions around our Sphere.


Mike Luther N117C at 1:117/100

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In a message dated 07-20-14, Mike Luther said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Mike,

The musical sound of a CQ is among the first letter combination you
learn. There are however several different learning methods based on different theories. I'm not shure any more but IRC the course I started before being called in to military duty started with the EISH5 letters.

Even though I later in my life pioneered SSB in Finland and Aland
Islands I'm still a morse addict. I have built transmitters for AM, FM
and SSB and receivers and add ons to both types.

power on 40 meter CW from a 6L6 to an 807, then to an 811 and up to
the first 4-250.

In the beginning of my ham career 50 Wo was the limit so I started with
the combo 6F6 - 807 on an old tube receiver chassis. Later that power
limit was raised so I started to build a 4' rack with a hefty PS at the
bottom floor, next up was to be an AM modulator with 2x807 and on top a
4-65A PA.

In the mean time I had built an SSB exciter and suddenly an AM modulator
wasn't an interesting prospect anymore so it was never built.

Then the power limit was raised to 1 kW PEP and we moved to other living quarters and the 4' rack became junk and I bought a Heathkit HA-14 PA
and the AC supply HP-23. Now that one is removed from duty since the
tubes (2x572B) have suffered from overdriving on mainly RTTY.

My main rig today is a Drake TR-7 plus an assortment of VHF/UHF/SHF rigs

I was curious; how low power could I go and he would still be able
to hear me? We did a 'little' experiment.

I got down to ONE WATT output power.

HE COULD STILL HEAR ME!

Both of us were totally shocked! After we parted company in that
QSO, I was so stunned with what I had learned however I realized I'd
better get ready for my morning newspaper boy run on my Cushman

Yes, miracles do happen, hi.

But interestingly, even Fido can still do a very important honorable
job of caring for people and carrying even all of us upward in life
without poking people in the side. Even back to ring level and
interrupt level code that can Dis And Dat even all over the whole
Earth for thousands of people to hear in good weather. At even a
watt or two of power. From Ham Radio remote sites on CW even on a
few watts around the world. If you want it to. And the HAARP ain't playing, chuckle. Or the Chemtrails ain't moosing the Ions around
our Sphere.

Yes, Fido is very important but it also shares its use with other duties
and hobbies.

Mike Luther N117C at 1:117/100

For a moment I thought that you had a new call sign, maybe you do have.
The one I recall was W5WQN and I haven't read anywhere that USA would
have started using the N1 prefix.

73 de Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

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