Text 29664, 74 rader
Skriven 2012-06-15 03:50:17 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
  Kommentar till text 29659 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Fidonews Vol 29 No 23 June 04, 2012 Page: 2
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Hi Roy,

On Thu 2012-Jun-14 10:49, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Richard Webb:

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 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
 Roy>> in the breeze, etc.. Weak signal TV was (or seemed so at the time)
 Roy>> more subject to TVI then. Lots of complaints when the TV screen
 Roy>> flashed sideways when he was on the air (didn't know what CW was
 Roy>> then, but recognize it today) ... I visited his 'shack' back then,
 Roy>> which is where I picked up the radio bug. A few years later in my
 Roy>> own shack, I was sending CW...

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

Roy> For some reason, that affected more of the lower VHF TV channels.
Roy> i.e. WOC-TV was on channel 6 and located in Davenport, IA, about 60
Roy> air miles to the SW of where we lived.  Our TV antenna would have
Roy> been pointed across that HAM's property to get that station. The
Roy> strongest TV signal came from Rockford, IL, about 25 air miles due
Roy> east of us on channel 13. Not much interference to that channel was
Roy> experienced.

YEp, woc was our nbc affiliate in Burlington, Iowa where I
grew up, about 60-70 air miles I'd guess.  We didn't have an abc TV affiliate
far as I recall until 65 or so, but I might be wrong, maybe 64 when MOline on
channel 8 came on, then
Ottumwa, Ia. on channel 3 came on about the same time.

 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.

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

Roy> We helped a friend move out of her house a couple of years ago. In a
Roy> large box I found a bunch of CB radios w/mics and a antenna, less
Roy> radials. In among the radios were some after-market mics. One was/is
Roy> a hand-held and chromed 'd-104' for a mobile radio. A couple of
Roy> amplified antiques also in the mess. I saved out the spare mics, but
Roy> the mics that came with those radios stayed with them. Will put them
Roy> up for sale (tested, but as is) at my next garage sale. The
Roy> broken/modified radios will be used for target practice... 8^)

Can relate to that.  IF I need cb I'll just jump on the
kenwood.  I've got to hit a truck stop and get one of those
mirror mounts that I can mount on the spare tire rack on the rear of the van so
I can mount my 3-way hustler mount, I've
got 40 and 20 meter resonators, and if we have to make a
flying trip north for funerals or something I'd like to have 20 meters mobile. 
I can always get an 11 meter resonator
for the third of that hustler mount if I think I really need cb, but i"ll ahve
40 and 20m plus 2 meters so I shouldn't
need it.


Regards,
           Richard
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