On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 16:40:15 +0000
"Jim GM4DHJ ..." <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 06/02/2022 13:09, Brian Morrison wrote:
On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 07:16:18 +0000[...]
"Jim GM4DHJ ..." <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 06/02/2022 01:30, Brian Morrison wrote:
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got a new liner2NOTHING digital has anything to do wath ham radio
Back to 5MHz VFOs and crystal mixing frequency synthesis for you then
;-)
I used to have a TR-7010, similar but with fewer spurs on Tx. It said
TRIO on the front panel, something that is long gone now.
It had problems with its fairly restrictive frequency coverage, with the standard crystal complement (which included both of the expansion
crystal sockets filled which got you to 144.3375MHz with a following
wind) and I couldn't afford a VFO-700 to use as an external frequency
source. I tried building a VFO but it just was not stable enough.
The trick was remembering that the extra 2 crystals needed to be fitted
in the expansion sockets so that the tuning knob 5kHz step from 95->A
with the range button on 144.2 took you from 144.295 to 144.300, then
setting 144.1 on the range button gave you 144.320 with A displayed and 144.335 with D. It was always easier to QSY down from the calling
frequency so that you had a fairly direct readout of where you were
tuned to. Luckily the VXO only tuned +/- 2.5kHz so it was possible to
scan the band in 5kHz steps without missing any signals. Never did own
an IC-202 which was about the only other affordable 2m SSB rig of the
time.
In another week my licence will have been issued for 43 years. Some time before I bought the 7010 the Wrotham beacon had gone off air and once
it came back in May 1979 it had moved to 144.925 and so I never got to
listen to it again with my own Rx until I had a radio with full-band 2m coverage about 5 years later. GB3VHF spent not much more than 4 years
on 144.150, the CW/SSB mode boundary in the band plan. It all feels like another world now, which I suppose it was.
On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 16:40:15 +0000
"Jim GM4DHJ ..." <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 06/02/2022 13:09, Brian Morrison wrote:
On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 07:16:18 +0000
"Jim GM4DHJ ..." <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com> wrote:
[...]On 06/02/2022 01:30, Brian Morrison wrote:
[...]
[...]
NOTHING digital has anything to do wath ham radio
Back to 5MHz VFOs and crystal mixing frequency synthesis for you
then ;-)
got a new liner2
I used to have a TR-7010, similar but with fewer spurs on Tx. It said
TRIO on the front panel, something that is long gone now.
It had problems with its fairly restrictive frequency coverage, with
the standard crystal complement (which included both of the expansion
crystal sockets filled which got you to 144.3375MHz with a following
wind) and I couldn't afford a VFO-700 to use as an external frequency
source. I tried building a VFO but it just was not stable enough.
The trick was remembering that the extra 2 crystals needed to be
fitted in the expansion sockets so that the tuning knob 5kHz step
from 95->A with the range button on 144.2 took you from 144.295 to
144.300, then setting 144.1 on the range button gave you 144.320 with
A displayed and 144.335 with D. It was always easier to QSY down from
the calling frequency so that you had a fairly direct readout of
where you were tuned to. Luckily the VXO only tuned +/- 2.5kHz so it
was possible to scan the band in 5kHz steps without missing any
signals. Never did own an IC-202 which was about the only other
affordable 2m SSB rig of the time.
In another week my licence will have been issued for 43 years. Some
time before I bought the 7010 the Wrotham beacon had gone off air and
once it came back in May 1979 it had moved to 144.925 and so I never
got to listen to it again with my own Rx until I had a radio with
full-band 2m coverage about 5 years later. GB3VHF spent not much more
than 4 years on 144.150, the CW/SSB mode boundary in the band plan.
It all feels like another world now, which I suppose it was.
It sounds like there were a few of us licenced at that time when
amateur radio was a cool hobby for teenagers. A lot has changed in that
time. You must have taken the last written RAE in Dec 1978.
On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 19:46:19 +0000
"A. non Eyemouse" <somewhere@work.invalid> wrote:
It sounds like there were a few of us licenced at that time when
amateur radio was a cool hobby for teenagers. A lot has changed in that
time. You must have taken the last written RAE in Dec 1978.
Yes, that was the one, taught the syllabus by a few people at school
with fairly recent G8Oxx calls and also by Tim Hughes G3GVV. Tim was
also my woodwork and technology teacher.
There were 5 of us that passed the RAE that year, one of whom was quick enough off the mark to get the last-but-3 G8Rxx call, 3 of us were
about half a dozen letters into the G8Sxx series and one straggler a
couple of letters further still. Now I'm the only one of those active
(or even licensed) and of the previous group of 4 I don't know for sure
about activity but a couple are still licensed.
I have no regrets really, but I miss the evenings in the pub with many
of them, much hilarity ensued. You had to be there.
I have no regrets really, but I miss the evenings in the pub with many
of them, much hilarity ensued. You had to be there.
I was an old 21 year old when I got my GM4 in summer 1974 having passed
the dec 73 RAE not like you pair of spring chickens
On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 07:46:30 +0000
"Jim GM4DHJ ..." <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com> wrote:
I have no regrets really, but I miss the evenings in the pub with manyI was an old 21 year old when I got my GM4 in summer 1974 having passed
of them, much hilarity ensued. You had to be there.
the dec 73 RAE not like you pair of spring chickens
Only 5 years before me Jim, and only 10 years older.
Cue David Bowie "We had five years left to cry in". Here we are 50
years on from that song and we're still being told that we have some uncertain but small number of years before the planet has been killed.
We'll all be a long time dead.
On 08/02/2022 19:42, Brian Morrison wrote:I was working on setting out the piled foundations of a brand new office
On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 07:46:30 +0000I will anyway...remember buying that cassette when it came out at a
"Jim GM4DHJ ..." <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com> wrote:
I have no regrets really, but I miss the evenings in the pub with many >>>> of them, much hilarity ensued. You had to be there.I was an old 21 year old when I got my GM4 in summer 1974 having passed
the dec 73 RAE not like you pair of spring chickens
Only 5 years before me Jim, and only 10 years older.
Cue David Bowie "We had five years left to cry in". Here we are 50
years on from that song and we're still being told that we have some
uncertain but small number of years before the planet has been killed.
We'll all be a long time dead.
record shop in Sauchiehall street ....
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