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KB2VXA > CB 30.03.11 17:07l 81 Lines 4129 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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To : CB@WW
Hi Ian and all,
Oh this is getting interesting! Oh just what we need, a fat Dracula. I
don't know how that happened on a blood diet, never saw a fat vampire bat
trying to fly..........
Well, we've probably never heard of your brands this side of the pond
either so we're even, sort of, you had a few Yankee rigs so you know some
of them. After I sent off that reply to Pete I remembered what may be the
last that Courrier produced, a marvel of solid state engineering. It was
the smallest I've ever seen, about the size of two packs of cigarettes
stacked one atop the other. What was inside the box was truly amazing,
the receiver employed VFETs which resulted in close to zero internally
generated noise putting tubes and discreet transistors to shame. I
remember my surprise when I hooked it up to a 12V PSU and base antenna
and in a quiet area no less, tuned around and heard nothing. I killed the
squelch, turned the volume all the way up and still nothing, I thought
something was wrong until somebody transmitted and nearly knocked me out
of the chair.
Short story behind that, down the road was one who thought he had the
best station in the county, stacked 3el beams on a 60' tower and a 100W
amp, as luck would have it I showed him who was boss. On came a station
in Atlantic City and I started a QSO with him, Mister Big Shot couldn't
hear him and accused me of ghost talking. OK, I'll stand by so give it a
try, he's for real. He fiddled with the beams and fired up the amp, the
other station heard him plain but still he couldn't hear him so I
relayed. The proof is in the putting, when he realized he'd met his match
and worse he went off in a huff. It only goes to prove an old ham saying,
if you can't hear 'em you can't work 'em. Oh and BTW he didn't like me
too much after calling him an alligator, all mouth and no ears. (;->)
I didn't know that Turner made a compander mic, don't remember an M+3B
but the +2, M+2 and M+3 are familiar. The +2 was the base, a 250 with a
two transistor preamp in the base, the M+2 had a thumb wheel gain control
that constantly got bumped so they came out with the M+3 which had a
slide pot. Still the same preamp, maybe the B model had a compander but I
never saw one.
Eh, I think you meant adjascent channel rejection, co-channel being on
frequency no degree of selectivity can do anything about it. (;->) That
was very important when the band got crowded and it was hard to even find
a clear channel. We managed though, then along came those infernal high
powered splatter boxes that forced me off the air a few times but I
digress.
One interesting thing you mentioned that brought to mind a few early
"export" models that had had the capability of upping the power with an
easy mod. One had a tube final and pair of modulators, jump a resistor
and it went to 30W output, gave a decent edge and clean sounding too. The
funny bit was they were sold at a local CB shop with the best "doctor"
around, a ham who should have known better than to put both his ham
license and 1st Class Phone in jeopardy.
"NB what makes you think I went home alone?"
Oh I forgot, that's when you were a skinny vampire. (;->)
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