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- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 94 04:30:11 PST
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- Subject: Info-Hams Digest V93 #1537
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- Info-Hams Digest Mon, 3 Jan 94 Volume 93 : Issue 1537
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- Today's Topics:
- Info sought on KLM Echo-70 432 ssb rig
- Strange Antenna
- WHERE ARE ALL THE YOU
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- Date: Sun, 02 Jan 94 02:02:32 CST
- From: swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!uum1!kksys.com!edgar!moron!pillock!stevej@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Info sought on KLM Echo-70 432 ssb rig
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
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- gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) writes:
-
- > In article <2fvl4s$qe0@hpchase.rose.hp.com> stan@hprstw.rose.hp.com (Stan Wit
- > >Does anyone know much about the above rig. A local ham has one for $150.
- > >Physically it's in great shape but I don't kow how good a radio it is.
- > >It appears to cover 432.0 to 432.5 and 435.0 to 435.5 from examing the
- > >dial. Is it useable for satellite and dometic work? Does it drift much?
- >
- > This is a very old rig, one of the first, if not the first, solid state
- > 70cm SSB rigs. It came out in time for the early amateur satellites. It's
- > not a great radio by today's standards. It does drift, and the front end
- > isn't that good either. Still, at $150, or less if you can talk him down,
- > it can serve for mode B. I don't think it would be too good for mode J or L,
- > but might be usable with a good preamp.
- >
- Gary is being very kind to this radio. I have one and when I bought it I
- knew just what to expect from it. I use it mainly for terrestrial ssb/cw
- contacts and contests. The thing in its stock form is DEAF! But with a
- 20dB low noise preamp mounted inside the radio, it is very usable. I paid
- $85.00 for mine and I personally knew the person from whom I bought it.
- It had been realigned so that you could work above and below 432.100 without
- switching channels and had also been tweeked to the nth degree before I
- built and put in the preamp. It does drift which is ok for contests buif
- you are ragchewing, you end up turning the vxo as the other person is
- talking. I personally think that $150.00 is a bit high. The 3 or 4 of them
- that have changed hands up here have sold between $85 and $125. Of course
- this is relative to what's available in your area and the size of your
- finances. $150.00 is not an awful price but it is not a great price
- either unless the preamp is included.
-
- Steve KA0VYB
-
- ***Microwavers do it with higher frequency***
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- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 07:37:42 GMT
- From: sdd.hp.com!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!hkuxb.hku.hk!pckwong@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: Strange Antenna
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
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- Charles Woodson (ep208@garnet.berkeley.edu) wrote:
- : The antenna looked like a loop about 3 cm in diameter, and there was
- : a second loop the same size at 90 degrees to the first one.
-
- For cellulars! Not hardly found such antennas in HK!!
- 73,
- -Philips Wong, VS6XVI
-
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- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 94 01:36:01
- From: netcomsv!netcomsv!lavc!steven.rosenberg@decwrl.dec.com
- Subject: WHERE ARE ALL THE YOU
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- wolfman@p-cove.UUCP (Aaron Smith) writes:
-
- > I got my first radio for christmas (yesterday) (a mobile), and a power supply
- for it.
- > The radio wasn't already wired up to the power supply, so I had to do it.
- > I also got a KPC-3 TNC along with it, but no power supply.. So all day
- > christmas I didn't know if I could wire in the TNC and the radio to the
- > same power supply (I didn't pay much attention during the classes because
- > of my cockyness and erogance).. I was going to wire it up after I did
- > some calculations, but I thought I would hold off untill the day after,
- > and it was a good thing I did.
-
- Am I missing something here? is there a reason why a TNC and a VHF/UHF
- radio can't share the same 12v power supply?
-
- steven.rosenberg@support.com
-
- KC6FYL
-
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