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DT:Monday,June 30th.,2008 @1012hrs EST
<< Quoting KB2VXA to RADIO @WW >>
>From : KB2VXA To : RADIO @WW
>Type/Status : B$ Date/Time : 29-Jun 23:09
>Bid : 40253_VK2TV Message # : 246568
>Title : Re: VE3WBZ > misc.
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>From: KB2VXA@VK2TV.#MNC.NSW.AUS.OC
>To : RADIO@WW
>
>Hi Peter and all,
Good Morning Warren..and all readers.,
>I never heard of an Oshello radio but this is New Jersey
>where even Grundig was rare. I remember W2RXR Jim's mom
>had the classic AM/FM/SW pushbutton model on a kitchen
>counter, we rather used his NC-300 upstairs. That was a
>beast, I had a devil of a time with it particularly
>trying to tune in SSB, my NC-303 was SO much better and
>the AGC mod the engineers at Bell Labs
>(now Lucent Technologies) came up with was the icing on
>the cake. I miss my old boat anchor but it had to go when I
>moved and downsized so I sold it and UPS destroyed it. (:-<)
I have yet to find the "Oshello" again, but I think I have
seen variatios, but then with different names, so I think
Oshello was one of these names, and they all were manufactured
by the same compnay in Germany.
I asked the owner what happened to the radio, and he told me
he threw it out ...garbage .... "yikes" ...took some time
for me to recover from that one.
Sidenote: Surprises are in the garbage cans these days!
I had the use of a NC-303 .... now that was BIG and what
a BEAST. The table nearly collapsed...My parents were glad
when the owner came to collect it :)
>I can't seem to coax any info on the BBC pirates out of the
>UK for some reason and Ian is about a month behind in his
>replies, oh well.
Maybe some don't remember it. Or they were too young ?
> I barely remember it but it has to do with
>a portable LPFM transmitter overpowering an STL at one of
>the transmitter sites. It was a very special sort of combat
>manpack radio. (;->) So, someone hijacked an STL for a
>Chicago TV station huh? LOL!!!
Yeah the Chicago caper never got ressolved... But I have
now found the tape...and it shows someone mooning and then
giving it a pat .... no audio....just funny. They
had it going for a long time, and it was the TV techs
that over rode the pirate<s>...so ....darn..never got
the full tape.
>That reminds me of the time Captain Midnight brefly hijacked
>the HBO satellite uplink, not hard to do when you light up
>the bird with a brighter torch.
Gee..isn't that what the druglords in South America do to
carry on business with their franchees in the other countrys.
Used to be C Band ... have not heard them or seen them for
a long time.
>73 de Warren
>
>[End of Message #246568 from KB2VXA]
I also liked a feature of PopComm which was the Pirates Den
where there were frequency listings and what was coming across
from listeners to these brave souls...
Oh well...time to move along... Poggy-day to day, so I gotta
have my drugs, some inputs and gosh I hope Ian gets caught
up and gives us the UK report....Over to you Ian G0TEZ if
you are ready?
ttfn
Peter
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