Thruth revealed about ham radio

That's rule #42. ;-)

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You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a band-aid on it, because it's
Teflon coated.

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in news:gMydnY0eI9A9B97QnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.com:

You rich kids had all the luck! Cat whiskers were for galena crystals! Who could afford it?! Rich kids.....

The rest of us used rusty Gillette blades sitting edge to edge searching for that tiny rusty diode detector.

NO, you can't have any of my oatmeal boxes! I'm still short coils for 49 and 31 meters.

John Devereux wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@devereux.me.uk:

"Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill!"

legg wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

24" wide 7' tall NAVY WW2 transmitter chassis....

Pair of 4-1000A properly mounted and blown with full airflow sockets, chimneys and plate cap cast aluminum radiators running common cathode as real tetrodes. Regulated screen supplies for stability using 807 output with 6KV plate supply with proper choke-input home brew filter, oil filled power company caps and full wave 10KV 2A solid state rectifier stack driven off a 5KVA pole transformer hooked up backwards with its LV side hooked to a 50A 230VAC Variac with huge handle on the side.

QRP output running 6KVDC at 950ma that melted RG-8A/U for lunch......

"You want me to turn it down?!" How silly.....

Ah, the warm glow of two bright red, graphite plates at maximum efficiency on 20 meter RTTY at 100% duty cycle......(c;]

"Power is our FRIEND!" (old broadcasting friend with 50KW blowtorch on a

60's AM rocker).

The object is to get the neighbors lights to glow just as bright when the

80 meter RTTY transmitter's ON, even though their house voltage drops to 98VAC from the overload on the shared pole transformer, from the RF induction in the attic wiring, as when the transmitter's OFF and they have 122VAC on the wall outlets.

Of course, they can't turn the lights off with the wall switch when the transmitter's ON.....(c;]

Warren wrote in news:Xns9E7B827379812WarrensBlatherings@81.169.183.62:

You forgot to tell him how much the unwanted ship anchor that nearly made this victim's table collapse actually weighed.....(c;]

You can carry a burned out 6F6 lots farther to the dump table than, say, the kilowatt plate transformer missing one of the HV leads, for instance.

The trick is to see how MUCH weight you can dump on Big Mouth's table before he starts bitching at you....

Jim Thompson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

"Meaty Bones" biscuits will bring even the most rabid, highly trained, junkyard dog to his knees like a little puppy.....(c;]

One of our ham repeaters was next to a forestry service guarded equipment yard. We ruined several really nasty guard dogs with "Meaty Bones" to shut them up so we could play with our toys in peace.

One day the dog handler walked across their yard while we were tweaking the duplexer to find his nasty guard dogs all lined up, plastered against the fence right behind my milk crate seat wagging their tails trying to get my attention. He was unhappy with me, unfortunately. I had a humongous box of "Meaty Bones" permanently stored inside the weatherproof repeater cabinet....(c;]

I could have driven a tractor-trailer flatbed out of that yard full of the most expensive equipment with the dogs holding the gate open....hee hee.

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in news:s-

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A good Weller dims the lights in the living room if you have the tip nuts tightened up right......and hums like the main plate transformer at the Voice of America.

"Yes, ma'am. The tip is supposed to be blood red like that."

" snipped-for-privacy@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

...hard drives, credit cards, security tags, windup watches.....

What was the main VOA transmitter site is now a golf course. It was replaced with satellite feeds.

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You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a band-aid on it, because it's
Teflon coated.

Rich? I mowed lawns and repaired radios, starting at 13.

Blue blades, and they are no longer made.

Plastic pill bottles are better for the higher bands. I hve plenty, between what the VA prescribes for me and the empties my parents save for me.

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You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a band-aid on it, because it's
Teflon coated.

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I enjoyed reading your post here.

Is that in hex? Just wondering. :)

Many happy more.

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Jim was born in a leap year, so he's not yet quite 0x12.

Thanks!

Yep, I've only celebrated 17 real birthdays. so I'm now younger than 5 of my 8 grandchildren.

"I'm my own grandpa" ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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I didn't know Jim was a spring chicken ? 18 ? Did you mean 0x46 or 0x47 ?

Jamie

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It might work a bit more efficiently, if you added an antenna....

zoom, zoom, zoom....

RL

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Jamie