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Subject: Ham-Equip Digest V94 #52
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Ham-Equip Digest Fri, 4 Mar 94 Volume 94 : Issue 52
Today's Topics:
ICOM R7100 - poor TV reception
Icom X2A Mods??
Kenwood TS-60 - Opinions?
Reviving Old Equipment
Rumored new radio: Azden 6m all-mode
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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 05:49:23 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!newshub.nosc.mil!news!Roger.Keating@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: ICOM R7100 - poor TV reception
To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu
I don't have the answer to the question Bradley offers, but I'm
interested in
learning more about the TVR7100 module and its reportedly poor
performance.
I have little trouble getting TV and FM radio from great distances with
a simple random wire antenna in a poor location near my apartment.
I have considered getting the TV reception module but am still curious
about
its performance with the recvr.
What sort of poor performance has been seen Bradley?
Roger Keating - KD6EFQ
keating@nosc.mil
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Date: 3 Mar 1994 09:36:41 -0600
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!news.cerf.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!doc.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Icom X2A Mods??
To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu
Howdy!
Ive got an Icom X2A 450-1.2ghz dual bander coming in and am
trying to find out if is modable for wideband Rx-Tx?
Anyone own one of these out there?
Also any user comments?
Tnx- Bob Nagy
AA5PB
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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 05:42:12 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!newshub.nosc.mil!news!Roger.Keating@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Kenwood TS-60 - Opinions?
To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu
I haven't seen the actual radio yet, but am glad that Kenwood built it.
This radio could have had 10m in it as well and been a better value and
more
useful as 10m is used for coordinating 6m often, but I'm glad they
built it
anyway. My question is:
Who's bought and used it? How about some quick reviews of this radio
for the net.
Worst feature, best features, and important missing features which
should have been added....etc.
Roger Keating - KD6EFQ
keating@nosc.mil
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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 18:54:08 GMT
From: news.acns.nwu.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!pacbell.com!news@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Reviving Old Equipment
To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu
In article <2knvpb$5jg@tymix.Tymnet.COM>, <flanagan@niagara.Tymnet.COM> writes:
> Path:
pacbell.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!yeshua.marcam.com!cha
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> From: flanagan@niagara.Tymnet.COM (Dick Flanagan)
> Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment
> Subject: Reviving Old Equipment
> Summary: Station not plugged in for twenty years
> Keywords: old drake station power smoke poof
> Message-ID: <2knvpb$5jg@tymix.Tymnet.COM>
> Date: 26 Feb 94 17:10:03 GMT
> Organization: Libelle Productions, Minden, Nevada, USA
> Lines: 41
> NNTP-Posting-Host: niagara.tymnet.com
>
> Back in 1972 I decided to indulge myself and bought a Drake Line:
>
> R-4B Receiver
> T-4XB Transmitter
> AC-4 Power Supply
> SP-4 Speaker
> L-4B Linear Amp
> C-4 Station Console
> MN-2000 Antenna Tuner
>
> After using the station for about ten hours, I found I had to relocate
> across the country. The brand new equipment went back into their
> plastic bags and factory boxes. Life went on. . . .
>
> After more than twenty-one years, those boxes are still unopened.
>
> Questions for the net:
>
> 1. How should I re-introduce this equipment to power after all these
> years? Visions of leaking capacitors, cracking resistors and
> flaking insulation fill my head. . . .
>
> 2. Should I pay an experienced service shop to bring this station back
> to life and to align/tune it? If so, who would you recommend?
>
> 3. Would I be at a technological disadvantage to use this equipment on
> today's bands, competing with today's high-tech transceivers?
>
> 4. Should I simply try to trade everything in on a modern transceiver?
> If so, would I be able to get a reasonable trade-in for everything?
>
> 5. Is there anything I have forgotten to ask?
>
> Thanks for any and all advice!
>
> 73, Dick, W6OLD
>
> --
> Dick Flanagan, CFII-G Grob Speed Astir "DY"
> Libelle Productions, Minden, NV MCI Mail: 412-2140
> Voice/FAX: +1 702 782 8644 GEnie: FLANAGAN
I have used for many years an AC variable transformer and
start at 10vac and bring up th volatage by 10vac about
every 15 min. I also use a dc adj. supply to bring up
low and high voltage (5-15vdc)&(100-500vdc) in 10o/o
steps. It has worked for me in may old radio shop and
all the old eq. i now get from the goverment sales
The r4 and t4 where good rigs in there day but as
you say do not have the bands of today or the selectivaty
of todays rigs
tony L wa6qmq
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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 05:35:30 GMT
From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!newshub.nosc.mil!news!Roger.Keating@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Rumored new radio: Azden 6m all-mode
To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu
I have heard from several sources that Azden is working on a new 6m
all-mode
radio.
Can anyone confirm this; that is has anyone heard from Azden that this
is so?
Please post details, comments, etc.
Roger Keating - KD6EFQ
keating@nosc.mil
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