Subject: GLOWBUGS digest 399

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 07:51:50 -0600 (CST)

GLOWBUGS Digest 399

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Re: "The Vari-Coil"
	by "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
  2) Re: Book Needed
	by "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
  3) Re: filter chokes
	by "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
  4) list traffic
	by Conard Murray <[email-masked]>
  5) Re: "The Vari-Coil"
	by Doug <[email-masked]>
  6) Re: list traffic
	by "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
  7) K3AJV says:
	by "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
  8) Re: Parts...
	by [email-masked] (Jeff Duntemann)
  9) Re: Ocean Hopper, cont.
	by [email-masked] (michael silva)
 10) Re: Dan's Small Parts
	by [email-masked] (michael silva)
 11) Single Tube rig
	by [email-masked] (Michael Herr)
 12) Let's sign him up.
	by "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
 13) (Fwd) Re: K3AJV says:
	by "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
 14) Re: Dan's Small Parts
	by "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
 15) FS: Radio Boys Books
	by [email-masked] (Richard H. Arland)
 16) SKN
	by Jacqueline Herman <[email-masked]>
 17) Re: list traffic
	by "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <[email-masked]>
 18) Re: SKN
	by "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
 19) Re: list traffic
	by "Joseph L. Hartmann, Jr." <[email-masked]>
 20) SKN
	by [email-masked] (James H. Haynes)

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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 06:01:38 +0000
From: "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
To: Jacqueline Herman <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: "The Vari-Coil"
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

This sounds wonderful. I wonder if some of our more ingenious 
glowbug/machinists could make something like this today!
I think it could become a VERY popular item for folks homebrewing 
antenna tuners and maybe it could even be used in a pi-network for 
all band tuning, with a turns-counter dial.

On 27 Dec 96 at 19:29, Jacqueline Herman chatted merrily:
(ACTUALLY i think it was really JEFF!)

> While paging through FIFTY YEARS OF ARRL I came an old ad for the
> most amazing device called The Vari-Coil. It consists of two
> drum-like coil forms on parallel axes. As you turn the handle
> attached to one axis, the flexible wire runs from one drum to the
> other, running over a fixed bar between the two drums. Thus, turning
> the handle changes the inductance! The lower drum is gear-driven by
> the upper drum, so the flex wire stays taut. Ingenious!
> 
> >From the ad: Any size coil at your finger tips... $10... Write for
> literature on this ulta modern tuner... Arthur J. Hurt & Co.
> 
> See page 78 in FIFTY YEARS.
> 
> Jeff KH2PZ / 7
> 
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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 06:01:39 +0000
From: "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
To: Doug <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Book Needed
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

On 29 Dec 96 at 21:36, Doug chatted merrily:
 
> I've quit getting any postings from the group...I hope it's not
> something serious.  So, if all is going well, let me know and I'll
> re-subscribe.

Phew! And *I* thought it was just me or that something was wrong 
with my e-mail here!

Things have been running VERY VERY slow indeed!
THREE messages in four days here in GLOWBUGS!

SOMETHING is wrong somewhere, Doug!

Maybe it's just you and me here!

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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 06:01:37 +0000
From: "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
To: Bob Roehrig <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: filter chokes
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

Yeah - I don't think there is really much of any difference needed in 
the core material. A coil is a coil. A core is a core. The 
permeability will make some difference in the inductance of course,
but with such power supplies, they are very forgiving if you vary the 
amount of capacitance or inductance used. More is almost always 
better of course(!)

On 28 Dec 96 at 11:49, Bob Roehrig chatted merrily:

> 
> A while ago there was a thread about chokes and how their core
> construction differed from transformers. This week I decided to
> build a supply for my AMR101. Needed was 6.3V and about 250V. I had
> everything but a choke. So in a pinch I substituted a 30V, 2 amp
> transformer (use the primary). The thing really works well - the
> ripple is attenuated about 40dB. I used 30 uf caps on each side of
> the PI. 
> 
> 
>         E-mail [email-masked]           73 de Bob, K9EUI
>             CIS: Data / Telecom   Aurora University, Aurora, IL
>                       630-844-4898  Fax 630-844-5530
> 
> 
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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 08:34:33 -0500
From: Conard Murray <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: list traffic
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

Happy New Year All!
The traffic on the list has been a bit slack lately ... I hope it is because
everyone is busy turning out projects! There have been a few e-mail glitches
too with more than half the list showing up as undeliverable addresses, so
some of you might have lost the few messages that have been sent.
73 and keep soldering,
de COnard WS4S 
.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
. Conard Murray  WS4S    Glowbugs listowner .
.  217 Dyer Avenue        [email-masked]  .
.   Cookeville, TN  38501  615-526-4093     .
.    <><  Wise men still seek Him  <><      .
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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 09:03:57 -0700
From: Doug <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: "The Vari-Coil"
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

Hi Brian and the bunch....yes, it's been a while since the traffic
flowed from the 'Bugs' server...good to see things moving again.

As for the Vari Coil...take a look inside an ART-13 at the "Vari-
Ometer" as it's called.  It was the same idea...just on a bit different
frame.  It worked pretty well and could match about any wire antenna
(hi impedence).  The trouble with using a variable coil/inductor in
a pi-net output is the possibility of a match that dosent have
sufficient "Q" to attenuate harmonics...which is one of the jobs a
well designed pi-net must do.  Just because we can achive a form of
resonance through that network dosent necessarily also mean we've done
a good job of keeping the harmonics bottled up in the rig.  This
relationship becomes ever more important when we use the network on
small, one or two stage rigs that multiply the fundamental frequencies
up close to the final stage, with the result being radiation of harmonic
frequencies in places we dont really want them to be....i.e....the
antenna.

So...the "Vari-Coil" had some of those same problems, and I think there
was insufficient demand for it also.  It'd be wonderful to design a
truly "universal" output network that would be all things to all rigs,
but without switched inductors...difficult to do, when one takes into
consideration the need for a resonable "Q" factor.

Just a thought.....take care and enjoy the New Year....one and all.

73

Doug, K7YD
Livingston, MT

Brian Carling wrote:
> 
> This sounds wonderful. I wonder if some of our more ingenious
> glowbug/machinists could make something like this today!
> I think it could become a VERY popular item for folks homebrewing
> antenna tuners and maybe it could even be used in a pi-network for
> all band tuning, with a turns-counter dial.
> 
> On 27 Dec 96 at 19:29, Jacqueline Herman chatted merrily:
> (ACTUALLY i think it was really JEFF!)
> 
> > While paging through FIFTY YEARS OF ARRL I came an old ad for the
> > most amazing device called The Vari-Coil. It consists of two
> > drum-like coil forms on parallel axes. As you turn the handle
> > attached to one axis, the flexible wire runs from one drum to the
> > other, running over a fixed bar between the two drums. Thus, turning
> > the handle changes the inductance! The lower drum is gear-driven by
> > the upper drum, so the flex wire stays taut. Ingenious!
> >
> > >From the ad: Any size coil at your finger tips... $10... Write for
> > literature on this ulta modern tuner... Arthur J. Hurt & Co.
> >
> > See page 78 in FIFTY YEARS.
> >
> > Jeff KH2PZ / 7
> >
> ********************************************************
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> *** See the great ham radio resources at:              *
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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 09:10:15 +0000
From: "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Subject: Re: list traffic
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

Intruiging!
Say Conard, is MY address one of the ones that showed up as 
"undeliverable?"
SOme of our e-mail service was messed up here over Christmas but it 
should have been OK the past 3-4 dyas at least, and I only got a 
handful of glowbug messages!

Looks better today though... I just got SIX!

On 30 Dec 96 at 8:35, Conard Murray chatted merrily:

> Happy New Year All!
> The traffic on the list has been a bit slack lately ... I hope it is
> because everyone is busy turning out projects! There have been a few
> e-mail glitches too with more than half the list showing up as
> undeliverable addresses, so some of you might have lost the few
> messages that have been sent. 73 and keep soldering, de COnard WS4S
> .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. . Conard Murray  WS4S 
>   Glowbugs listowner . .  217 Dyer Avenue        [email-masked]  .
> .   Cookeville, TN  38501  615-526-4093     . .    <><  Wise men
> still seek Him  <><      .
> .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
> 
> 
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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 10:04:29 +0000
From: "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: K3AJV says:
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

Here's a good story guys:

It was 1951, just starting High School in the Big Apple.  Lots
of us kids had to travel far (the High School was not a
neighborhood school) so we were encouraged to engage in
"extracurricular activities".  My! How the world has changed.
Since it was an all boy school you might think nasty thoughts
about the "extracurricular activities", but in those simpler
days it just meant basketball, the photography club (I tried
it, didn't like it), the debating club, .... AND the Radio
Club, W2FYB, organized by Father Albert T. Rooney, S.J.  Of
course the extracurricular activities began after the last
class -- perhaps about 3:30 in the afternoon.

I can still remember thinking (when I was about 10 years old)
how the radio came in from the wires in the wall.  Father
Rooney held the first radio club meeting in the Physics lab.
(He was the Physics teacher at the high school.) It was
standing room only!  But, the word was out: Morse code. A great
winnower.  Pretty soon we were down to perhaps 12 -- now we
could all fit into the Radio Club, a smallish room adjoining
Father Rooney's physics lab. His Collins 75A1 and Jonhson
Viking II with outboard VFO were AWESOME.  Getting all those
"dips" looked like black magic. 

1951 -- and "radio row" in New York City was doing just fine:
Arrow, Newark, Harvey, and I can't recall them all -- but it
really was a ROW of shops down on Barclay street.  I used to
take the ferry home sometimes just so I could browse thru the
"row".

Well, Father Rooney whipped us into shape pretty good.  Don't
have the statistics, but over the four years that i was in
school we had perhaps 15 boys get their licenses.  Maybe my
estimate is a little low.  

1952 -- we would go down to the "row" occasionally with Father
Rooney, who was trying to get us to "build" stuff.  The WW-II
military surplus was there: big time!  Father got us to
"convert" BC 455's for receivers, and BC 696 (?)'s for
transmitters.  (The number is probably wrong: he counselled us
to get on 40 meters.... good advice for a city dweller, at
least as compared to 80 meters.)

Father Rooney got us to go for our novice tickets, just as a
morale booster -- he said "Don't operate as a novice; get your
general first." We did.  George, KN2ADD went down to the
federal building (with a few others) and they got calls all
close together.  I was sick that day, and went about a week
later, snagging KN2AJV.  It was in December, '51.  

Father Rooney had a war-surplus morse code sending machine.  It
used paper tape, marked with ink, and the tape was led over a
photoelectric tube; this was the "switch" that keyed the code.
I recall the loudspeaker on the code generator was a small
affair, but it had a mechanical screw-like thing that you could
adjust and get that speaker to resonate like crazy.  I always
wanted to experiment with resonant speakers, but never got
around to it.

Well, by September of 1952 George, I and others took our
general exams, at the same federal building on Varrick street.
Father Rooney actually did most of the conversion work, but we
were very interested "assistants".

I cannot forget my first experiences on the air -- I was so
self conscious -- all the hams knew me for what I was, because
they all kept addressing me this way: " So lid ...." How did
they *know* I was a lid?  Gradually, we became more expert, and
by the time we graduated a number of us were "extras" (a new
fangled thing that the FCC had just come up with).

Those were the days!   Father Rooney, God love you!

Best Regards,

Joe Hartmann    Tel: (603) 863 6073     
K2AJV           email: [email-masked]   
                home-page: http://www.sugar-river.net/~joeh 
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Happy GPL and all that!
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I have invited K2AJV to join us over here!
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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:13:40 -0700
From: [email-masked] (Jeff Duntemann)
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Parts...
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

At 03:58 PM 12/22/96 -0600, WA0BPU wrote:
>Hello all...
>
>I have lost the web address for Dans Small Parts, can anyone please provide
it??

Dan's Net address is:

http://www.fix.net/dans.html

His full catalog is there.

Dan's wonderful--with the caveat for this list that he is NOT a glowbug
parts source except for small items like resistors and NPO disks used in
circuits of any persuasion.

I buy a lot of my solid state stuff from him.

--73--

--Jeff Duntemann KG7JF
  Scottsdale, Arizona

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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 10:44:56 -0800
From: [email-masked] (michael silva)
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Ocean Hopper, cont.
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

Never had an Ocean Hopper, but I did get a Star Roamer for Christmas 
when I was about 12 (when I say "get" what I mean is "begged for day 
and night"!).  Got it together and it didn't work, so I took it to the 
local TV repair shop and they fixed it for $4.50.  Only two problems:  
I had soldered both the oscillator and input circuits to the same gang 
of the tuning cap (on opposite sides), and a shielded lead had been up 
against a terminal when I soldered it, melting the insulation and 
shorting the terminal.  Amazing that I remember that so well...

Had a lot of fun with that radio.  Built a 6AU6 BFO so I could hear SSB 
and CW -- tuning in SSB was like magic!  Spent a lot of time on the 
roof and in trees putting up antennas that weren't strong enough.  
Finally (kick, kick!) I took it apart so I could use the parts in other 
projects.  Still have many of them, like the variable cap, coils and IF 
transformers, so parts of it may still help jiggle the aether in the 
future.

73,
Mike, KK6GM

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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:43:05 -0800
From: [email-masked] (michael silva)
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Dan's Small Parts
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

One other thing Dan's has that applies to glowbugging is/are variable 
caps.  He's got some very nice dual section 20pF caps for only $2.50 
each.  These have easily removable (and replaceable) plates so you you 
could come up with anything from almost 0 to 40pF fully closed (I guess 
I should use uuF on this list, right?).  After I got a couple I ordered 
4 more just because they seemed so useful.

73,
Mike, KK6GM

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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 12:11:48 -0800
From: [email-masked] (Michael Herr)
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Single Tube rig
Message-ID: <v01530501aeedd0c315ec@[199.120.150.151]>

Howdy, hope everyone had a great Christmas!
      Thought I'd tell you all about a Christmas present I got for my
father. It as the one tube regn receiver kit from AES. My father was a ham
back in the late 30's and then again starting in the 60's. Well, he worked
on it for a couple of days, between naps, eating and "discussions".
Finally, after the usual switching the tickler coil leads and adding a
ground lead here and there, it perked right up, catching the local AM
station with resounding audio. He was like a kid in a toy store! Great
little kit! Now he's talking about winding other coils for it.
73
Mike WA6ARA

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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 12:58:54 +0000
From: "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Let's sign him up.
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

Guys - it has been a great day for glowbugging! I didn't get much 
done in fact.
I fired up the Geloso 4/104 VFO and gave it about 45 minutes to warm 
up. It STILL drifted somewhat! Heck I am only runing 105V or so to it!

I get 3 watts on 40m - not bad. The 6AG7 and 6L6 neeed more plate 
voltage AND drive, but QRP is fun!

I worked K3WWP who was using a 6Y6 glowbug GREAT!

I also got a good report from  K1HXA in N.H. - so by the time I ever 
get this stuff organized... (Right now it is  a mess with three 
chassis spread all over a desk! - clip leads everywhere, and I have 
to flip two switches to go to xmit!) But having great fun with it!
======================================
Also:
Can someone please e-mail the instructions on how to sign up to this 
gentleman?
He is the one who sent the great story about ARC-5s etc. that I 
posted earlier today!
============================================
Yes, I would like to join the glowbugs.  

Best Regards,

Joe Hartmann    Tel: (603) 863 6073     
K2AJV           email: [email-masked]   

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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 13:03:20 +0000
From: "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: (Fwd) Re: K3AJV says:
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

Where do I find all these great characters?
This feller e-mailed me thusly:

------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
From:          [email-masked] (Leon Wiltsey)
Subject:       Re: K3AJV says:

Hey your tale brings backmany memories.
I was in high school in the late 40's and we also had a radio club. 
The high school was also all boys( Lane tech) in Chicago.  Our
receivers were old arc-5 single banders that the science teacher also
a ham, had picked up somewhere.

The xmitter was a tube type 6k7 osc. pushing a 6L6 buffer driving pair
of 12 volt 807's  think they were 1625's or something like that.  We
used AM screen modulation and fed a long long long long long wire;(
about 6 wavelengths on 20 meters.  darn thing ran half way across the
school roof. had a varcoil type of antenna matcher, and also a
harmonic filter, that had to be reset for each band, but we sure got
out. I graduated in 51 and went right into avaition navy radio school
in Millington tenn.and from there into a flying boat squadron PBM'S as
a radio man.  The old boys sending at 20-30 wpm on mss fox militaey
had quite a swing to there fists and took awhile to get familiar with.
Left the navy and went with the FAA for 20 more years into micrwave
and radar displays. Boy some memories, had not thought about those
days in years.

Since my stroke awhile back am relearning the code and will be back on
the air soon. Used to be w4kcj and kp4bqp when over seas in PR.  Have
a happy new year it sure was good reading your post. Thank the good
LORD for all that you have!!!

Leon B Wiltsey jr. (Lee)

67yr old semi disabled senior
play keyboard and sing
music 1920's to 60'
none of the 90's noise

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(note: I hope SOMEONE is keeping an archive of all these wonderful memories 
from GLOWBUGS!! Grin! - Bry AF4K)

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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 13:06:32 +0000
From: "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Dan's Small Parts
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

On 30 Dec 96 at 13:44, michael silva chatted merrily:

> One other thing Dan's has that applies to glowbugging is/are
> variable caps.  He's got some very nice dual section 20pF caps for
> only $2.50 each.  These have easily removable (and replaceable)
> plates so you you could come up with anything from almost 0 to 40pF
> fully closed (I guess I should use uuF on this list, right?)

Yes Mike, but that should be "variable condensers" and those are 
"Mickey Mikes" when you say uuF, he he!
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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 02:33:10 PST
From: [email-masked] (Richard H. Arland)
To: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Subject: FS: Radio Boys Books
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

Gang:

Don't know if anyone out there collects the Radio Boys books by Allan
Chapman, but I have seven titles (5 by Chapman and 2 by Brekenridge) and
an 8th book "The Golden Boys Rescue by Radio" by Wyman. 

If anyone is interested in all 8 books, e-mail me and we'll discuss.
Looking for an original Halli S-38 (6 tube model), HR-10B Heathkit
receiver, HG-10 VFO, HD1410 keyer, and Knightkit T-60 TX. Maybe we can
work a trade.

73 rich K7SZ

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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 19:16:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Jacqueline Herman <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Subject: SKN
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

I haven't seen anyone talking about Straight Key Night, so just a
reminder, don't forget this extremely fun non-contest on New Year's
Eve. (Of course, for those of us who only use straight keys daily, it
will be like any other night!)

73,
Jeff KH2PZ / 7

P.S. Anyone who has knowledge of aneroid barometers or altimeters
please contact me.

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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 22:45:21 -0600
From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Multiple recipients of list <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: list traffic
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

At 02:36 PM 12/30/96 +0000, Conard Murray wrote:
>Happy New Year All!
>The traffic on the list has been a bit slack lately ... I hope it is because
>everyone is busy turning out projects! There have been a few e-mail glitches
>too with more than half the list showing up as undeliverable addresses, so
>some of you might have lost the few messages that have been sent.
>73 and keep soldering,
>de COnard WS4S 
>.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
>. Conard Murray  WS4S    Glowbugs listowner .
>.  217 Dyer Avenue        [email-masked]  .
>.   Cookeville, TN  38501  615-526-4093     .
>.    <><  Wise men still seek Him  <><      .
>.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
>
>

List traffic? Lets see, I belong to 7 or 8 E-mail lists and get about 60
messages per day. Every list goes up & down in posting volume so I'm quite
used to it. But then I read more than I post to any of them.

Robert M. Bratcher Jr.
E-mail to:
[email-masked]
Record collector, 8mm, super 8, 16 and 35mm Film collector.
I like old radio's too.
Collins, Hallicrafters, National & Hammurland are my Favorites!

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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 21:03:18 +0000
From: "Brian Carling" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: SKN
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

On 30 Dec 96 at 21:29, Jacqueline Herman chatted merrily:

> I haven't seen anyone talking about Straight Key Night, so just a
> reminder, don't forget this extremely fun non-contest on New Year's
> Eve. (Of course, for those of us who only use straight keys daily,
> it will be like any other night!)

SKN? Heck, I wouldn't miss it, Jacqueline! Say, everyone if you are 
NEW to Straight Key Night, remember instead of giving someone their 
"RST" ya give 'em their "SKN"

Got it? OK! See ya there!

BTW - does anyone know what time the activity officially starts?
I would like to mostly do it in the daytime when QRP contacts are 
easiest on 40m !!

Happy New Year to all you Glow Buggists!
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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 00:49:30 -0500 (EST)
From: "Joseph L. Hartmann, Jr." <[email-masked]>
To: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: list traffic
Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/[email-masked]>

On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:

> At 02:36 PM 12/30/96 +0000, Conard Murray wrote:
> >Happy New Year All!
> >The traffic on the list has been a bit slack lately

I'll do my bit to change that .... I would like to know your
favorite 40 (or 80 or 20) meter QRP xcvr: couple of watts --
maybe up to 5w.  -- gosh I'm *really* looking for solid state
here (back-packable) -- hope this doesn't offend anyone (I only
want the *glow* to be on my face).  But I would love to latch
on to a Viking II with outboard VFO, and a Collins 75A1 (or
75A2) for a fixed (club) station.

Gonna reconstruct Father Rooney's radio club!  

Also, any advice on how to apply to become a volunteer examiner? 

And YES! , Happy New year, all!

Best Regards,
 
Joe Hartmann    Tel: (603) 863 6073     
K2AJV           email: [email-masked]   
(orig call '51) home-page: http://www.sugar-river.net/~joeh 
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.. I hope it is because
> >everyone is busy turning out projects! There have been a few e-mail glitches
> >too with more than half the list showing up as undeliverable addresses, so
> >some of you might have lost the few messages that have been sent.
> >73 and keep soldering,
> >de COnard WS4S 
> >.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
> >. Conard Murray  WS4S    Glowbugs listowner .
> >.  217 Dyer Avenue        [email-masked]  .
> >.   Cookeville, TN  38501  615-526-4093     .
> >.    <><  Wise men still seek Him  <><      .
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> >
> 
> List traffic? Lets see, I belong to 7 or 8 E-mail lists and get about 60
> messages per day. Every list goes up & down in posting volume so I'm quite
> used to it. But then I read more than I post to any of them.
> 
> Robert M. Bratcher Jr.
> E-mail to:
> [email-masked]
> Record collector, 8mm, super 8, 16 and 35mm Film collector.
> I like old radio's too.
> Collins, Hallicrafters, National & Hammurland are my Favorites!

You have good tastes!  I owned an Sx-28A as a teenager; neat rx.

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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 22:11:02 -0800
From: [email-masked] (James H. Haynes)
To: [email-masked]
Subject: SKN
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

And if you have a mechanical Teletype don't forget Green Key Night (& Day)
on Feb 20.

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