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Old March 28th 05, 05:37 PM
I AmnotGeorgeBush
 
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From: =A0=A0 "Leland C. Scott"




Subject: =A0 I got a ticket to ride !!!!!!


Date: =A0=A0 Sat, Mar 26, 2005, 12:10pm


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Actually, it's one virtue of the ever-evolving webtv : )



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"I AmnotGeorgeBush" wrote in message
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And I don't even do HF. 8-))


You damned sure used to.

When I mucked around with CB briefly in the


70's.


Why did you quit?

Too many idiots, jammers, channel control


freaks, amp users who think they need several
hundred watts to talk to another idiot a couple


of miles down the street,



The only problem you mention with which I agree is the last concerning
local amp use.
The rest of the dilemmas you mention are self-created by not exercising
your freedom of choice, beginning with the channel selector.



kids learning how to expand their 4 letter word
vocabulary on the air etc.



You feel kids learn profanity from the cb?
As opposed to the words they learn on TV and in school, on the street
and elsewhere?
Damn,,,what word can one learn on cb that hasn't been over-used on tv
and in the school yard?
_
You find six meter that much
more entertaining?


Better class of people.



I don't agree with such practiced elitism, but understand your position
perfectly, as many, many hammies take the same stance toward nocode
operators and view them as appliance operators and feel the better class
of people involved in hammie radio does not begin until one surpasses
nocode status.


Anyway I'm more interested in microwave


stuff. Spent a couple of hundred bucks at the


Ohio Maumee swap the other weekend


getting a Narda SMA directional coupler


(model 4203-10 2-18GHz), a Omni Spectra


directional coupler (p/n 2020-6605-10


1.0-2.0GHz), K&L SMA transfer relays


(MS-28-SMA-TTL), a WJ SMA mixer (M1J),


and a used M/A-Com 8.134 GHz brick


oscillator (p/n PLX12-01). I'm going to try


sooner or later to retune the brick oscillator to


use on the Ham 10 GHz band. I already have


an FT-817 multimode multiband QRP rig to


use as the IF radio. The directional couplers


are for use with the HP-432A microwave


power meter I have for SWR measurements.


The last thing I'm looking for is a cheap slotted
line, coving the frequency range I'm interested
in, which I can use to make impedance


measurements. That's what was used before


the rise of the $50K network analyzers. A


spectrum analyzer would be nice too, but that


can wait.



There are interesting happenings WAY down low on the spectrum among the
experimental bands. I'm still getting good dx contacts here and there.
California was in my receive again overl weekend several times. Weather
was absolutely miserable, but the skip was pretty good. VHF activity
occupied most of my time, though.

--


Leland C. Scott


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