Radio

[poppa joe]

Sorry hijacking other thread.....Ducati...Zwickel....
Got my licence in '93 Didnt go through building etc...
Made my packet modem..Speech Processors....MUSIC BOX.....
You must know George up your way DUCATI BOY...
Cheers
PJ
Any other Radio fellas out there..?

 

[Zwickel]

Hi OMs,

I got my license in 1968, when we were still typing morse code
Ill search my cellar this evening, must still have a huge box full of old radio valves.

what about building a powerfull PA, wiring a short wave antenna around the mash tun and heating up the mash wit HF? nothing burnt

 

[Screwtop]

Ex VK4 here, licensed in the Seventies. A few achievements, a VK rememberence day winner, 6M into JA via TD using home brewed comms computer repeating my Callsign in CW. Tried 432Mhz Moon Bounce into JA using Yagi array with azmith and elevation control, used an apple pc to figure the time for the window into JA and a whopper of an amp with fan cooled tubes. About 1979 just missed out by 8k on making the 2M trip SSB and FM from Qld into Tas. Another ham was 8k further North than I was.

Good idea Zwickel maybe enough RF and modulate it, may be able to set up eddy currents and avoid stuck sparges. Are you listed in the 1979 Callbook Zwickel? still have one here.

Any of you ever had an RF burn to your lip from a mesh mic cover, used to use a Wyndham and it used to mod the fluro desk lamp in the shack too.

Funny Days!

 

[wessmith]

Hi Guys,

Never had a burn on the lip but did get one on the bum once as I moved back to allow a visitor into the shack and brushed the anode caps of a pair of 813's running at 1500v sitting open on the bench (it was a test rig). Only running 100w of course.

I sat my exam back in ZL in 1960 but never went to air - motorbikes, beer and girls intervened (in that order). I still have some SWL gear - JRC NRD 535D and an Icom ICR7100 fed from a trapped dipole for HF and a discone for UHF. My only transmitting these days is on a 5w hand held UHF CB for "road use"

Dont get much of a chance to SWL any more - brewing is now the business and takes up all the spare time!

73's,

Wes

Ex VK4 here, licensed in the Seventies. A few achievements, a VK rememberence day winner, 6M into JA via TD using home brewed comms computer repeating my Callsign in CW. Tried 432Mhz Moon Bounce into JA using Yagi array with azmith and elevation control, used an apple pc to figure the time for the window into JA and a whopper of an amp with fan cooled tubes. About 1979 just missed out by 8k on making the 2M trip SSB and FM from Qld into Tas. Another ham was 8k further North than I was.

Good idea Zwickel maybe enough RF and modulate it, may be able to set up eddy currents and avoid stuck sparges. Are you listed in the 1979 Callbook Zwickel? still have one here.

Any of you ever had an RF burn to your lip from a mesh mic cover, used to use a Wyndham and it used to mod the fluro desk lamp in the shack too.

Funny Days!

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Got my license in about 1989, and was lucky that I worked in the radio depot on the railways for a while. Man they had some awsome equipment. All that loverly test gear and a room full of parts. You could make and build anything. Used to make lots of preamps and filters.

Used to get up to a lot of mischief in that place. And i do mean mischief. If only they knew. h34r:

Moded my TS680 to run 100m AM on the CB band. Used to burn the tips of whips.looked great at night, and if you kept winding the freq up could burn the whip right down.

Unfortunalty motorbikes, beer and girls cured me of my radio addiction :chug:

Best call was on a 2m 5w H/H from Sydney to a ZL standing on a cliff on the north island. It only lasted about 15mins. :super:

 

[kirem]

In a past career I used to work on a big daddy of radio. The Jindalee Over the Horizon Radar Network. Computer controlled phased array HF ionoshpere bouncing.

Sonar is/was my true love much more fun than RF.

Kirk

 

[pint of lager]

The "other" homebrew.

We both have calls here. Lots of gear and antennas. The kitchen sports a dual band 2m/70cm and another 2m rig. The computer/radio shack room has an Icom 746 Pro hooked to 2 x 2m yagis, 2 x 6m yagis, 40m inverted V and an 80m dipole. The shed has 6/10m 3/4 length J-poles, 27 Meg and discone recieve. 4.6m dish on 23cm, circular polariztion for EME is on the western side of the house.

The mountain top has 8 element folded dipole vertical array on 70cm, 2m 3/4 stacked on 3/4 vertical, 16 element phased array on 2m and an 80 loop which is good on all bands to 6m. 3m dish on 23 cm.

The ute has a TS-50 hooked up to an 80m vertical, also a dual band 2m/70cm and chook band.

All the usual h/h, 2m, 70cm which are used daily.

Anythime anyone drives in the gate, or the letterbox opens, they arehooked to a transmitter which sends out a tone.

Also a wireless LAN for the computer gear.

807's all round.

73's

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

MMM..might have to go to the shed and dust off the old TS 680.....


Just have to remember how to use it... :unsure:

 

[Zwickel]

wow...I never thought so many OMs turned theire shacks into brewhouses <_<

Ive been very active with my hobby at that time (from 1968 til ~1985), mostly at 2m and 70cm. Because Ive been a very young guy for the first time, I didnt had money enough to buy me any equipment, had to build everything by myself, first time X-tal controlled, later VFO-controlled.
Fortunately close to my home there were a large TV-Factory (Grundig) and some day I found out, there is a lot of electronic waste in theire rubbish container, so I took many electronic parts with me to use it for my hobby.
I still own a huge box full with QSO-cards, thausends of QSO-cards, cant throw it away.

Ex VK4 here, licensed in the Seventies. A few achievements, a VK rememberence day winner, 6M into JA via TD using home brewed comms computer repeating my Callsign in CW. Tried 432Mhz Moon Bounce into JA using Yagi array with azmith and elevation control, used an apple pc to figure the time for the window into JA and a whopper of an amp with fan cooled tubes. About 1979 just missed out by 8k on making the 2M trip SSB and FM from Qld into Tas. Another ham was 8k further North than I was.

wow, Screwtop, congratulations, very impressive.

Are you listed in the 1979 Callbook Zwickel? still have one here.

of course, should be, Im still paying my license fee, so I should be still in there even in the new ones.

I couldnt make up my mind to return the license, although Im not gonna use it anymore.
My heart will break if I havent my license anymore.

Any of you ever had an RF burn to your lip from a mesh mic cover, used to use a Wyndham and it used to mod the fluro desk lamp in the shack

oh...not exactly that, but innumerable often I burnt my fingers with HF.

oh man, what was it a nice time....

Cheers