[Fourlanders] Looking for some help and advice

[James Worsham]

You need to get more hard core Tom.  My mother said something last week about 
wanting to visit contest weekend.  I told her that I had other plans and to come 
some other time.

73
Jim, W4KXY


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From: Tom McElroy <tommcelroy.mail at gmail.com>
To: James Worsham <wa4kxy at bellsouth.net>
Cc: Bob Lear <w4zst at windstream.net>; fourlanders at contesting.com
Sent: Tue, January 10, 2012 5:31:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Fourlanders] Looking for some help and advice

Bob,
I have a 8mm camcorder you can use.  Not a Sony, but maybe the video format is 
the same.
Around the turn of the century, I strapped a radio to it so I could walk 
around the house sending video without wires.
It might have bits of solder and superglue on it, but it ought to work.

We have the DECT phones like Jim says.  Vtech brand, from Costco.
Very ham-friendly in terms of the location of spurs and harmonics.

The handset paging feature is a really nice thing to have.
When I'm in the basement, I can page Jan and talk without having to run up the 
stairs
and get all of that exercise.  They buttons aren't as complicated as an Icom HT, 

but they're at least as complicated as a Yaesu HT.

We have elderly relatives who have the nerve to visit during a contest weekend.
I hope to break away at least for a little while and come up and join in the 
fun.

73
Tom
W4SDR




On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:09 AM, James Worsham <wa4kxy at bellsouth.net> wrote:

I don't believe that one basestaion is going to cover both the house and shack. 
>I would get two basestations (one for the house and one for the shack) and
>however many handsets you need.  Get the newer digital DECT handsets.  They
>operate at 1.9 GHz so no interference with Wi-Fi, etc.  Just do a google search
>on DECT and you will find plenty of info along with numerous products.  Can I
>have the dial phone for the AT&T museum?  I work with people who have never 
seen
>a dial phone except maybe a photo.
>
>73
>Jim, W4KXY
>
>
>
>
>________________________________
>From: Bob Lear <w4zst at windstream.net>
>To: fourlanders at contesting.com
>Sent: Mon, January 9, 2012 11:45:40 PM
>Subject: [Fourlanders] Looking for some help and advice
>
>
>If figured it would be most useful to just ask on the reflector a couple
>of questions:
>
>I want to put new cordless phones in my house and and maybe the shack.
>Probably just one base station and maybe 2 or 3 other handsets with
>their own charger bases with caller ID.  Any recommendations?  You know
>I need help as I still have a dial phone!!
>
>Another request:  Does anyone have an older Sony digital 8 video camera?
>  I have an analog Sony 8mm which is a great camera that I have taped
>all the SVHFS conferences with.  If I can find one of the later Sony
>Digital 8's, I think they had the capability to give a digital output
>from an analog tape so that it could be put on digital media.  That is
>something I'd like to do with all my old tapes to archive them and make
>them more useful and available.
>
>Thanks, Bob
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