On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 1:34 PM, allison via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 10/08/2017 02:47 PM, Ed via cctalk wrote: > > When I see something that is neat...I camp on it until I decide or > > have a friend put his hand on and stand in front. Yea... to many > times turn > > around and then look down and someone else now has it... Ed# > > > > > > > > In a message dated 10/8/2017 9:52:59 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, > > cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: > > > > I missed out on a nice Hallicrafters receiver at a hamfest last > weekend... > > Walked way to look it up, and it was gone when I came back! > > > I have a few Hallicrafters radios... > > SX120 not much of a radio but along the lines of the S-38 (al la AA5 > line powered). > I have two one bone stock and pretty and the other has been modded > six ways to Sunday by me. The mods include a 2.1khz mechanical filter, > additional IF stage and a real product detector using 6AR8 and even a > power transformer. > SX110, more serious radio, hurts the back some too. > HT37 transmitter Phasing to create SSB at a pair of 6146 power level. > > I home brew on HF though 432... > > Allison > My FT-817 (5 watts) has no problem reaching from the West Coast of the US to the East with SSB - IF the band is open. Most recently I've found 40m to be open most often (at least when I'm on HF). Does anyone on this thread know if there are any regularly scheduled traffic nets? -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Principal Investigator, "Reflections on Early Computing and Social Change", UW IRB #42619 Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
