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Info-Hams Digest Wed, 24 Nov 93 Volume 93 : Issue 1381
Today's Topics:
Poor audio fix for HTs
solid no LID
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Date: 22 Nov 1993 09:00:08 -0600
From: ucsnews!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!concert!corpgate!crchh327.bnr.ca!kharker@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Poor audio fix for HTs
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <21870054@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>, scott@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Scott Turner) writes:
|> In rec.radio.amateur.misc, Greg Law <GREGL@delphi.com> writes:
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|> > I saw that thing in the Radio Shack catalog and I'm really curious to learn
|> > how well it works. I'm afraid the blasted wire will get hung in the cassette
|> > mechanism and ruin an otherwise perfectly good Kenwood car stereo. :-)
|>
|> The case is designed so that the wire can be channeled out the side or
|> the back to accomodate both front and side-loading cassette players.
|> I've been using mine in a side-loading cassette player for about 5
|> months now to use my Alinco DJ580 while mobile. Works like a champ.
|>
|> Note, if I had it to do over again I'd still buy a decent mobile rig
|> rather than an HT, but with a speaker mike, the RS cassette adapter and
|> a Larsen antenna I've put together an acceptable mobile setup.
Well, as there's no way I'll be able to afford a true mobile rig for another
five or maybe six years, and since even a handheld looks out of my budget
(yes, that's right folks - three months a ham and I still can't afford to
buy a radio) when and if I ever get a radio, it'll have to be a handheld and
it'll have to serve as a mobile rig when I'm on the road.
So, this is going to sound like a pretty sad question, but does anybody know
of a an audio adapter for 8-track players? I drive an older car, and something
like this might be a creative use for the 8-track player...
(As an aside - I had a chance to win an ICOM W21AT last Saturday, and it
just occured to me that the W21AT is worth more than my car! It's things
like this that depress me about ham radio at times. It's just too expensive
for those of us on students' budgets...)
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Kenneth E. Harker BNR "Any opinions expressed
kharker@bnr.ca Richardson, Texas, USA are solely mine and do
N1PVB (214) 684-5115 not represent BNR"
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Date: 23 Nov 1993 03:57:02 GMT
From: swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.unomaha.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!unlinfo.unl.edu!mcduffie@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: solid no LID
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
krt@ocpfcad.ATt.COM writes:
> Scott NF3I writes,
> >So where did the phrase "Lid" come from, we always used to ask....
> My beginning attempts at cw contacts were quite stressful. During each contact I would copy something like.. "/fb niqe to meet v, so LID qpq". What was wrong with my radio or was it ME ? Why does everyone I qso with call me a LID ? After some ti
>me and practice I was able to copy what was actually being sent,
> "/fb nice to meet u, solid cpy". Those OM's weren't rude at all, and they did send me a nice card. So now when I qso on cw I always use 599 and never soLID cpy.
> 73,
> KEN N5PKA
I can hardly believe it!
I thought I was the ONLY one who did that as a novice... It was a huge
relief to put the words together as SOLID COPY instead of the SO LID
that I had copied for months and months. Like you, I wondered what I
was doing to be classed a lid.
BTW...
This one is a bear to edit down the previous post because of lack of
returns in the text.
Cheers:)
73,
Gary McDuffie, Sr. // ---o------\./------o---
Scottsbluff, Nebraska \\ // mcduffie@unl.edu ---o----/|\----o---
AG0N@AG0N.#WNE.NE.USA.NA \X/ _____________________________|
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