"Cmd Buzz Corey" wrote in message
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garigue wrote:
That is why the loss of the Novice license is such a disaster to Amateur
Radio.


All in the name of pushing a mike button there Dan ....pure and simple
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We used to have to dig em out of the noise, hand on rx and follow them
up/down the band. Not much for filters, just your ears and brain. But
that's another subject.

Dan/W4NTI


Boy Dan that is right ..... did that with the old HA-230 ..... like I
said
before ....it drifted more than my uncle coming out of the Legion on a
Saturday night .....

Take care Dan . et al see you on the air for FD ...W3CSL Monessen ARC
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And Novices were required to be crystal controlled, which meant that a
Novice might own 1 or 2 crystals, or maybe a rich kid would own 3
crystals. So you first checked to see if the frequency of your crystal was
in use, if not then call CQ, three by three, CQ three times, your call
three times, and that repeated three times. Then you scanned the band
because chances are some other novice answering you would not have the
same crystal frequency you did. As Dan says, one learned to dig em' out,
and the drifty receivers made it even more challenging.

Oh yes indeed......remember how you could change the frequency of those
FT-243 rocks? Carefully take them apart and apply a thin layer of pencil
lead. Don't remember....did that raise or lower the freq? Another
technique was to drilll a hole in the face of the rock. Put a metal screw
in it and adjust the tension on the quartz via the spring that was inside.

Ah the good ole days.

Yeah right.

Dan/W4NTI