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KB2VXA > CB 21.03.11 19:34l 36 Lines 1591 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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To : CB@WW
Hi Pete and all,
Having no interest in returning to 11M CB since I'd end up talking to
myself I haven't looked around to buy one although some good ones
including vintage tube sets occasionally turn up at hamfests. Ah, the
nostalgia, maybe that's why I downloaded and archived some pictures and
the ones I and friends used to have sure bring back the memories. That
Sonar FS23 sure is classic, one of my first rigs was a 5 channel HT brick
I borrowed from an uncle, worked great especially on the rooftop antenna
since it was 5W. They were made FYI close to my old NJ home, Brooklyn,
New York.
Remember the Browning Eagle? They were great rigs but annoying enough on
the air and they tended to drive the operator nuts with that loud ping
every transmission began with. Being feedback from the receiver one
solution was turning the volume way down but then it was hard to hear,
checking the schematic I came up with a better way. I ended up with a
parade coming into the shop for me to de-ping and at $20 a pop made out
fairly well. What I never revealed was how I did it, simply remove the
20uF electrolytic across the terminals for the mute line to the relay in
the transmitter. Not bad for a 10 minute clip job, eh? (;->)
Well, those were the days before roger beeps, echo mics and assorted
noisemakers. Just as well, all we wanted to do was talk, not act like a
bunch of idiots.
73 de Warren
Station powered by JCP&L atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
Message timed by NIST: 17:01 on 2011-Mar-21 GMT
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