Text 29645, 67 rader
Skriven 2012-06-14 00:33:38 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
  Kommentar till text 29644 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Fidonews Vol 29 No 23 June 04, 2012 Page: 2
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HI Roy,

On Wed 2012-Jun-13 07:35, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Richard Webb:

 Roy>> I have no idea what the number 8028 is used for.

 RW> PRobably their message number.  REmember those message
 RW> numbers on "formal" traffic, whether amateur, or military
 RW> are part of the audit trail.

Roy> Nope. The header of the message contains a 'message number'...could
Roy> be code for origination point. i.e. It's faster to look up an
Roy> origination point in numerical order rather than by name...

That could well be.  Thought about that when I reread the
messsage I was replying to.  That seems likely, or some
other navy speak we mere civilians of back then weren't
supposed to know <grin>.  But origination place sounds like
a good candidate imho.

<HEathkit lunchboxes>
 RW> Indeed I am, I had their 6 meter version, called the "sixer" iirc.
 RW> Got it on a trade.  I had a crystal in it for 50.4 mhz, and another
<snip>
 RW> guy in Georgia calling cq on 50.4, the band opened, I lived in Iowa
 RW> and I jumped on it. All the neighbors as well as my place did their
 RW> tv terrestrial over the air with outdoor antennas as we didn't have a
 RW> tv signal any closer than about 70 miles from us at the time.  I sure
 RW> had people beating on my door over that one <grin>.

Roy> 8^) Reminds me of the late 40s, early 50s with a HAM living across
Roy> the street and a few doors up. Lots of baluned long wires hanging in
Roy> the breeze, etc.. Weak signal TV was (or seemed so at the time) more
Roy> subject to TVI then. Lots of complaints when the TV screen flashed
Roy> sideways when he was on the air (didn't know what CW was then, but
Roy> recognize it today) ... I visited his 'shack' back then, which is
Roy> where I picked up the radio bug. A few years later in my own shack,
Roy> I was sending CW...

YEp, and another reason that a lot of televisions were so
susceptible back then, according to an old ham radio friend
of mine who was a tv repairman and antenna installer for his day job was that a
lot of television sets back then used an
if that was 21 mhz.  That for the uninitiated is the 15
meter band, a popular amateur band worldwide ack then, and
now.

 Roy>> Haven't seen one of those animals in a coon's age.

 RW> Nope, I traded that sixer for something else, ended up with
 RW> a Utica 650, basically the same thing, but with a transmit
 RW> vfo.  I had a d-104 microphone connected to it.

Roy> I have one of those D-104 (lollipop)s on my TS520...back then, the
Roy> mic on the 10mtr lunch box was a 251 Turner.

I had one until Katrina, I think it ended up living in a
closet for a long time.  I didn't use it on fm, and at the
time my only hf rig was an Icom, and I had a Heil for that
one.



Regards,
           Richard
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