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Info-Hams Digest Mon, 3 Jan 94 Volume 93 : Issue 1537
Today's Topics:
Info sought on KLM Echo-70 432 ssb rig
Strange Antenna
WHERE ARE ALL THE YOU
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Date: Sun, 02 Jan 94 02:02:32 CST
From: swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!uum1!kksys.com!edgar!moron!pillock!stevej@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Info sought on KLM Echo-70 432 ssb rig
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
gary@ke4zv.atl.ga.us (Gary Coffman) writes:
> In article <2fvl4s$qe0@hpchase.rose.hp.com> stan@hprstw.rose.hp.com (Stan Wit
> >Does anyone know much about the above rig. A local ham has one for $150.
> >Physically it's in great shape but I don't kow how good a radio it is.
> >It appears to cover 432.0 to 432.5 and 435.0 to 435.5 from examing the
> >dial. Is it useable for satellite and dometic work? Does it drift much?
>
> This is a very old rig, one of the first, if not the first, solid state
> 70cm SSB rigs. It came out in time for the early amateur satellites. It's
> not a great radio by today's standards. It does drift, and the front end
> isn't that good either. Still, at $150, or less if you can talk him down,
> it can serve for mode B. I don't think it would be too good for mode J or L,
> but might be usable with a good preamp.
>
Gary is being very kind to this radio. I have one and when I bought it I
knew just what to expect from it. I use it mainly for terrestrial ssb/cw
contacts and contests. The thing in its stock form is DEAF! But with a
20dB low noise preamp mounted inside the radio, it is very usable. I paid
$85.00 for mine and I personally knew the person from whom I bought it.
It had been realigned so that you could work above and below 432.100 without
switching channels and had also been tweeked to the nth degree before I
built and put in the preamp. It does drift which is ok for contests buif
you are ragchewing, you end up turning the vxo as the other person is
talking. I personally think that $150.00 is a bit high. The 3 or 4 of them
that have changed hands up here have sold between $85 and $125. Of course
this is relative to what's available in your area and the size of your
finances. $150.00 is not an awful price but it is not a great price
either unless the preamp is included.
Steve KA0VYB
***Microwavers do it with higher frequency***
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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 07:37:42 GMT
From: sdd.hp.com!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!hkuxb.hku.hk!pckwong@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Strange Antenna
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
Charles Woodson (ep208@garnet.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: The antenna looked like a loop about 3 cm in diameter, and there was
: a second loop the same size at 90 degrees to the first one.
For cellulars! Not hardly found such antennas in HK!!
73,
-Philips Wong, VS6XVI
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Date: Mon, 03 Jan 94 01:36:01
From: netcomsv!netcomsv!lavc!steven.rosenberg@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: WHERE ARE ALL THE YOU
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
wolfman@p-cove.UUCP (Aaron Smith) writes:
> I got my first radio for christmas (yesterday) (a mobile), and a power supply
for it.
> The radio wasn't already wired up to the power supply, so I had to do it.
> I also got a KPC-3 TNC along with it, but no power supply.. So all day
> christmas I didn't know if I could wire in the TNC and the radio to the
> same power supply (I didn't pay much attention during the classes because
> of my cockyness and erogance).. I was going to wire it up after I did
> some calculations, but I thought I would hold off untill the day after,
> and it was a good thing I did.
Am I missing something here? is there a reason why a TNC and a VHF/UHF
radio can't share the same 12v power supply?
steven.rosenberg@support.com
KC6FYL
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