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Subject: Re: Rental Cars foil HAM ops
From: "Mark Fellhauer" <sparkfel@qwest.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:12:58 -0500
X-Message-Number: 14
At 09:26 AM 6/27/2003, Bob Bruninga wrote:
>Yes, I took it back and got another car, same thing. Then I stormed into
>the rental office and complained. And that is when I was informed that
>they remove the lighter AND fuse from all cars.
Most smokers I know carry some form of portable fire with them, and thus
don't need an electric lighter. And even if they discover that they are
without such, don't most convenience stores and gas stations give away
books of matches or sell inexpensive lighters? This is a really stooopid
policy... Maybe they know about your history (Bob) and electrical wiring
in cars? :)
Last time I moved I rented a U-haul truck and it had a 12 volt banana jack
outlet on the dash!
>Now, how can they keep the smokers from trashing the highways? If one has
>ever hiked along a highway, the miles of cigarette butts are disgusting...
I live across the street from a major hospital that bans all smoking on
campus. So all the hospital employees (who outta know better) started
standing in my front yard to smoke and eat lunch. Needless to say our
front yard became an ashtray/trashcan, and one time I raked up thousands of
butts in a week's time (not to mention all the pop cans, cups, cookie
wrappers, etc). After a chat with the director of University Physicians,
they now stand in front of my neighbor's yard to smoke...
Mark
KC7BXS
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Subject: Re: Rental Cars foil HAM ops
From: "Jason Rausch" <ke4nyv@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:36:0
X-Message-Number: 15
I install Motorola mobiles at a 2-way shop...we see ALL kinds of things as
far as new fuse types, funky circuits and wiring. Such as Ford, they now
use this new plastic "block" fuse that is about an inch and a half long and
half inch by half inch. It looks like a leggo to me. It has a small
plastic window in the top that you can look down into it to see if it has
been blown. Instead of a single wire for the fuse, it has a small metal
"hoop" that is tapped on each side. Basically, if it only takes a small
jolt, it may only burn out on side of the hoop and continue to keep
continuity. Pain in the ass to keep them in stock, since you can only get
them from Ford dealerships at the moment, at about $3 a piece!
As far as the mini blade fuses, with the exception of the oddity I just
described above, the mini's are the "in thing" now. We keep a special tap
in the shop that is a molder fuse holder that can hold 2 fuses. Once you
find the fuse you want to tap off of, you pull that fuse out, put it in
this holder and put a second fuse in the second slot that it tied to a
pigtail that comes off of this holder. The whole holder gets plugged back
into the slot the orginal fuse came out of. This makes ignition sense
wiring very painless for us.
73's
Jason KE4NYV
www.ke4nyv.com
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Subject: Re: Rental Cars foil HAM ops
From: "Mike Yetsko" <myetsko@insydesw.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:34:22 -0400
X-Message-Number: 16
One of the 'test tools' I made up years ago was a blade fuse probe. I took
a BLOWN fuse and used a Dremel to cut it away. Then soldered on wires with
banana plugs on the other end. I now have a 'current meter' fuse. (Don't
forget to put ANOTHER fuse 'in line' with the circuit! Just go to RS and
get an inline blade fuse holder!)
I need to make up the same thing for the mini-blades.
Mike
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Subject: Rental Cars & Amateur Radio; 101
From: "Matthew Stennett" <wa4tkg@iwon.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:12:16 -0400 (EDT)
X-Message-Number: 17
" I can't BELIEVE I ate the WHOLE thing ":
(Happy Field Day Weekend)
I rented/drove a Hurts rent truck, WAYYy back when, it had a 12VDC clip
power outlet, right on the dash. In any event, if there is no power, OPEN
the HOOD! When I flew back into the country to Seattle, we rented a car,
took off, drove to Portland HRO, I got outta' the car, walked in, (planned
to do this for a LONG time), bought a TM-V7A, came back out with it, and
instantly wired it to the car BATTERY. ran the wire up the engine
compartment to where the hood secures; through the door/window.....it AIN'T
that much TROUBLE. Drove to FL that way....Whaaaaaah! As far as the GPS was
concerned, I ran a GPS III+ on just batteries. Didn't keep it on all the
time, and it seemed to last well enough. Power for TNC?; Hmmmmm D7A?, more
batteries?
7J6CAT
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Subject: Re: TinyTrack II Enclosure Ideas?
From: "H. N. Vordenbaum" <k5hv@beecreek.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:32:10 -0500
X-Message-Number: 18
I used a small Radio Shack enclosure which was just a little larger than
the TT board.
73, Harv
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Subject: Re: Rental Cars foil HAM ops
From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:57:47 -0400 (EDT)
X-Message-Number: 19
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Richard Amirault wrote:
>You say you carry clip leads ... couldn't you have used them to tap power
>from the fuse block?
Yes, but I was arriving 4 hours late for an all day meeting at NASA and
had a one hour drive to get from the INTL airport to the site, and no
time in the hot sun to fiddle....
And clipping from a modern fuse block requires not only clip leads but
also paperclips to jam into the holes to find the power, all while
standing on your head in a suit in 95 degree sun...
de WB4APR@amsat.org, Bob
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Subject: Re: Rental Cars foil HAM ops
From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:05:53 -0400 (EDT)
X-Message-Number: 20
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, k7ftp wrote:
>Can you fill us in on which rental company it was?
ALAMO / National are combined at Houston International Airport, but it
was an "ALAMO" car, the required government contractor...
I do agree it could have been a fluke (but 2 of 2 in the hot sun was
enough for me). THe fuse was IN PLACE, but blown. This could support the
theory that since they remove the Cig Lighters, the socket is always open
and in this model facing up. THus any dropped change could fall in it and
blow the fuse...
But a blown fuse could have also been the easy way to do the workman's
job. Send a guy out to remove the fuses out of 500 cars, and he will do
like any time-conscious electrician would do, take a screwdriver with him
and just short the socket to blow the fuse, rather than going though the
absurd contortions it takes these days to actually find the fuse and
remove it...
bob
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Subject: PropNET Lives...and on 60 meters, too!
From: "Ev Tupis (W2EV)" <w2ev@arrl.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:40:56 -0400
X-Message-Number: 22
No matter if your interest is PSK31 or AX.25 (packet)...there's ether to
probe!
http://www.PropNET.org
Ev, W2EV
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Subject: Going to see MER-B launch (I hope)
From: docfester@mindspring.com
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 14:27:30 -0400 (EDT)
X-Message-Number: 23
I'm going to try again! Never give up never surrender, oops wrong movie.
When I went to see the last one I had a few problems
1. Windshield wiper ripped off drivers side in one of the worse
thunderstorms me or my dad had been in.
2. Heat exhaustion while at Jetty Park.
3. Thunderstorms (same problem this time too)
4. EMP from a lightning strike (blew a fuse)
5. Water falling on inverter blowing the inverter, the radio, and the TNC,
and don't forget the computer. (All but the inverter has been "fixed")
6. Day late and a dollar short.
Same SSID KD4SFD-14, same route, different hotel (better rate), same place
to watch the launch (Jetty Park NICE place!) Night time launch 23:56:16
EDT 1st launch. Plan to leave between 7 am and 9 am Sat and get checked in
and then go to the park. Will come home on Sunday (after visiting KSC) if
it is launched Saturday, else I'll be home on Monday. Gosh I hope it goes
this time with me down there. Again IF it does (40% weather violation) I'll
put the video and such on a web page!
73's
Les
KD4SFD
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Subject: RE: Wx Station Problem
From: "Eric Christensen" <kf4otn@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 14:37:16 -0400
X-Message-Number: 24
I got it working! Amazing! Take a look at KF4OTN-3. I'll have an
additional post for a question that I found when dealing with this
station... Now, all I need to do is get my I-Gate back online so all
the packets will get into the internet.
Thanks to all!
Eric KF4OTN
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