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| Look like K7IOU - Dave waded throught the snow and hooked up a temporary antenna and says he can hear W0VMC (Robert - Voice Modulated Carrier) on 40 meters. Michigan is a pretty far stretch for us. A bit of progress but a long way to go, Dave! |
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| Did you miss it? If you did, you missed a pretty good one. We had a pretty good turn out of the AMers, but some of you didn't make it. We stopped over at the Texas Road House and had lunch afterwards. Here's some pictures. | |
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| Did you miss it? If you did, you missed a pretty good one. We had a pretty good turn out of the AMers, but some of you didn't make it. We stopped over at the Texas Road House and had lunch afterwards. Here's some pictures. | |
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| Another senior moment. Chatted with KA1TDQ - Jon this morning for a while and went to his QRZ and there he was in all his splendor with his home brew 3-500Z (2) transmitter. I probably downloaded this picture a year ago and it languished in my photos file as I had forgotten to post it here. Anyway, better late than never. Below you can see his suitable for Holloween dual 3-500Z amp he uses for 40AM. Nice lookin' gear, Jon. | |
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Several of
us took an excursion all the way down to Corona De Tucson
(23.5 miles South for me) and visited AJ7O - Dave at his QTH
followed by lunch at the little Italian restaurant
there. It appears that Dave is a "Cat Man". This
one was roaming around checking everything out. Dave
has some really nice boat anchors there. You can see a
few nice ones. How did I miss taking K3YAZ's 
picture? Well, you know what he looks like
anyway. Attending were your's truly, K7EWE - Jim, W8VG
- George, K3YAZ - Frank and of course the host, AJ7O - Dave.
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| I was working N6YW - Billy on 40 AM this evening and realized that I don't have him in the Gallery. This picture was stolen from his FaceBook page and I have no idea when it might have been taken, but here it is no matter! |
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Got this
fine SX-100 from W0LTL - Mike 
after a bit of horse trading and dickering. K0ETD -
Ron  took a look, replaced 4
tubes and tweaked it a bit and it's golden. Looks good
too. I can't wait till 10 opens up because I've heard
that these guys are hot on 10. Even got a nice SX-111
speaker in the deal. |
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Received
this picture of W8OFC - Jim's 
shack, however, I don't have a picture of him for the
gallery. Jim, you'd better take a "selfie" and send it
to me so you can be added to the AM's Finest gallery! (There
he is! He did send me a picture!) |
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| Well, here's that telephone style 1945, T-32 Tropicalized mike I picked up at the RST hamfest. I put an RB Micro crystal cartridge in the head and wired a new cord. I really like it! |
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| It LIVES! After several days chasing around an arcing modulation transformer terminal, Dave finally got his monster T-368 on the air today. He's got a bit of work to do with cables and cords, but it's sounds pretty good and puts out a legal limit signal with no problem. | |
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Dave
- K7IOU took a trip to the midwest and came back with this
hunk of iron! Shouldn't be too long on this heavy duty
guy will be on the air. Update! W8VG - George 
came over and gave technical support and this transmitter is
now working, well, into a dummy load, but, it's
operational. Now, to get it into the shack and on the
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| Hadn't talked to W0TDH - Tom back in North Carolina for a long time. Caught him on 10 meters and in the process took a look at this QRZ page and he has a lot of nice stuff there. He's using a plastic radio, as he calls it. He is friends with K0ETD - Ron and talks with him pretty often. Here's a couple shots of his equipment. | |
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| Well,
that was fun! A few of us AMers got together over in
Oro Valley at W8VG - George's
QTH and had a look at his recently constructed shack, having
moved from 6-land not long ago. Then we followed it up
with a lunch as Chili's. You shoulda' been
there! Nice stuff! |
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Had lunch
at the Villiage Inn on Speedway and Columbus yesterday and
had an eyeball with KH6ITY - Larry 
who has this nice looking Heathkit station. Here's
hoping we can get him on the air a bit more. |
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Remember Fifi, the B-29 that a few of us worked on 40 meter AM as it was flying out of Ft Worth on its way to Prescott? Well, she showed up in Tucson over the weekend and was out by the old Tucson Tower near the Executive Terminal. K7IOU - Dave , W0LTL - Mike and myself made the trip out there and had a good time touring the old girl as well as gandering the C-47 Gooney Bird, a beautiful B-25 Mitchell and a C-45 Beech. The B-29 was available for a ride for a mere $550. You can see Mike pointing out the more modern Collins radios that Collins had donated to the Fifi project back in the late 80's. He even had a ride in the plane when he did a quick fix on a radio problem that they had. Had a great time and took quite a few pictures. Here's a video of the B-25 by K7IOU - Dave! |
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I worked W7YCN - Pat in Shelton, WA the other day on 10 meters and he was telling me about his upcoming anniversary. So, it's history now and here's how it went down: Hi, John, 73 - Pat
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on Oracle near Tucson
Mall and have lunch. We did and a few AMers showed
up. Here are some pictures. We had a pretty good
time. Got to have an eye-ball with W8VG - George who
recently moved to Tucson.
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From:
K3YAZ - Frank Attached
are pics of the modified HT-40 using a 6LW6 sweep tube with
screen modulation. This is the largest sweep tube in
an octal base that was ever made to my knowledge. It
runs with 700 volts on the plate at 300 mA in the CW tune
position. PEP output is about 160W in AM mode. AM
average carrier is about 40 watts with about 3 dB of carrier
control suppression when not talking. Regards, Editors
note: Frank sent me a picture of an 813 (Corrected by
K7POF, 833s) rig built by Clyde. I thought that the
KC6ASA |
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