All listeners with an RIT control can just decide how girly or manly they want the other person's voice to sound :) Another reason why I love CW so much... Best regards - Bry Carling ________________
Year's ago I also had a Gonset GSB-100. It was a great radio and I worked lots of DX with it's 60 watts. I used it with a Collins 75A1. That was my first real station back in 1976. Carl Moreschi N4PY
Fine stuff. I have a 2B too. My CE 100V from 1959 was the best sounding SSB transmitter I had for a long time. I always get compliments even from the HiFi SSB people. Later when I got the OMNI VII an
That's like the Check Engine light on my truck. It's been on for some 120K miles. Finally the bulb burned out thus the problem was resolved. 73 Bob, K4TAX All very good points...I am not all too worr
I had a CE 100V that I bought from a local estate sale, but I never had the time to fix it. It got swapped for a hefty Tek dual beam oscilloscope to a member of the Boatanchors List. The Gonset excit
Speaking of old guys with old gear... I am Net Control of a Brand X Owner's Net, but we don't care who joins in, or what rig they use, it is all the merrier, and last week, a ham from Kansas City joi
Jon, If I had buddies who got annoyed with me being 20 or 30 Hz off frequency, I'd look for some new buddies. Those are probably the same buddies that pray to their SWR bridge. 73 - Rick, DJ0IP (Nr.
They don't complain. They just advise. BTW, Jon, you're 50 Hz high or whatever. When we aren't doing a round table but just jumping in, I know it's annoying to be pushing the RIT whenever party X tra
If I had buddies who got annoyed with me being 20 or 30 Hz off frequency, I'd look for some new buddies. -- I don't think he said the other guys complained... just that HE was the offending party in
Yes, different hearing will cause one to "tune in" a signal slightly different. Plus the absolute frequency as displayed can be +/- 50 Hz with most radios. Thus if one chooses to set the radio, such
Mike, Maybe he was afraid that rotation would twist his knobs? BTW, we ought to get together. My 2B gets lonely. But she still sounds loverly here! John / WA1JG Last fall, I had an old Drake TR-3 on
Bob, and the group, I have several Omni Vs here and it took a while for me to get the knack of using the dual VFOs for RIT operation. and for those of you that have never used an Omni V, there is no
I certainly got everyone riled up with this one, didn't I? Just to be clear, these guys were not giving me grief but I still don't like being the guy who is off frequency all the time even though I o
Just to be clear, these guys were not giving me grief but I still don't like being the guy who is off frequency all the time even though I often run old, old gear. The Corsair (I) is not a candidate
Hey Jon, Once upon a time, nobody cared about a few hertz. Things were just not that accurate and frankly, nobody cared. But, I do see a parallel. In the past contesting was a paper and pen (pencil)
We can morph the thread into just how bad was the old stuff. I just got through resurrecting a Heathkit AR-3. On that one, the entire 80M band is about 3/4" of dial with tic marks every 100 kc. I act
Author: Winston Jones <jones_winston@bellsouth.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 16:03:23 -0500
I first got on the air as a novice in 1960, using an AR-3 with a home brew 1625 rig. Had only two 40 meter crystals. Send CQ, then tune around for reply. Receiver drifted all over the place, but was
PS: Old Drake gear. Wonderful. I hope you still have it. Yes, I do -- and still in mint condition. The back story... I bought a brand new R4B when I was in the Chicago area for a 13 week Bell System
If it were not for the panadapters, we would not be having this conversation. Can anyone tell me how much scale is used to show a signal 15 cycles off?? Ed Jon, If I had buddies who got annoyed wi
What does a 15 Hz difference sound like? Anyone can easily hear the difference between say A1 = 55 Hz and C#2 = 69.3 Hz. That's 4 semi-tones. That is a lot, from Do right past Ray all the way to Mi.