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VE3WBZ > CB 24.03.11 04:27l 93 Lines 3626 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Thanks Warren KB2VXA :)
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To : CB@WW
TO: CB @WW
FR: VE3WBZ
DT: Wednesday,March 23rd.,2011 @1607hrs EST
Hi Warren and everyone ...
<< Quoting KB2VXA TO CB @WW >>
> 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.
I have listened here, but it is dead here , and even in Toronto dead.
Nothing like the 1960s ... even more dead.
This return , was only due to a request to look for his original
if I found it., OR find another, same style and better to good
condition, ...so finding this one, and mint, and with a history
is meaning more, even if ...I am sure he would buy his original
if he found it. I quoted him a price, and then got 50% off
so he got a great deal.
YES...the hamfests. Our original users of that service were
mostly in part also on the Ham Bands. Dual services and from
the origin days to when hollywood and skip made it useless
very very good memorys of those folks I knew, and know on the
Hammie side of things too.
> 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.
The SONAR HT I remember was the SONAR T2 ... and a brick but
one thing it did do, was impress with it's range.
Yes, I know where the SONAR plant was.
> 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.
Oh yes ... remember well that Eagle "ping". $20 a pop to get rid
of it...hahahahaha...the last trucker who went thru here...had that
thing built into a mic... echo and all...so start making mics for
the road cowboys with the fake accents. I find it funny on 2meters
when I hear the same cowboy change his persona for 2m...hahahaha.
> 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? (;->)
Ooooh...now they know! You know how leaky the packet is and all
ends up on the Internet.
> 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
>
> Message timed by NIST: 17:01 on 2011-Mar-21 GMT
>
> [End of Message #88231 from KB2VXA]
There are still those out there, and around the lake here, on-air and
interesting, and have met a few. Also met a few that ...well really
I want nothing to do with, but as I go, I am finding more sensible
folks, and that is important.
OK Warren... still searching for the TRAM T2. I saw one, but then
also a post that the radio in question ...while looking great on the
outside....was only a chasis inside....everything gone. hmmmm????
better get going, with Maria away, I am washing, and washing clothes
and only time seems ,late at night, or early morning.
73 Pete VE3WBZ
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