Re: Elecraft Digest, Vol 3, Issue 17

[wa2dkg]

Don's advice is correct...However, sometimes the feet are not the
problem...If there happens to be a slight twist in the  "chassis", the
feet will not contact the table equally and a rock will result...If
adjusting the feet does not work, try loosening EVERY screw on the
outside of the case about 1/2 turn, meaning ALL screws, top, bottom,
rear, etc...Do not loosen the two nuts on the heat sink that hold the
final transistors...Set the K2 on the bench with the stand folded and
apply downward pressure to the case with one hand while re-tightening all
the accessible screws with the other...Try to position the radio so that
you can reach all the screws without releasing the pressure...This will
force the case to lie flat while the screws are tightened...Turn the
radio over and tighten the bottom screws...

Jerry, wa2dkg
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[Dudley Chapman]

Dave Bruebeck Quartet when Paul Desmond was with him.
Double Trouble with Stevie Ray Vaughn

Ok, I know what you mean.  I am just following the newly established
protocol.  

I gather you are looking for an emotional response for "favorite band"
rather than a technical one for "best band".  In that case, I would say that
my favorites are 80m and 40m.  80m came from my rockbound ragchewing days as
a novice living on a small lot with nothing very high to hang antennas.
Here is my story for 80m.  I became a novice at age 15 in 1965.  In those
days novices had to be xtal controlled during transmit, and most of us had
only one or two xtals.  Mine was at 3717 khz.  Consider that most novices
had low antennas and one xtal, so each time you went on 80m with the
predictable high angle medium range propagation, you would find essentially
the same people who had xtals nearby in frequency.  Each afternoon I would
get home from school, turn on the DX-60/HR-10 and talk to a number other
teenagers in nearby states (me in CT, them in NY, NJ, PA, usually).  Being
talkative and energetic teenagers, we did a lot of CW day after day, not
realizing what good CW practice it was.  However, one of us had a horrendous
fist (not me) that only through experience the rest of us could copy.  His
problem stemmed from his call sign which had an EW in it.  For some reason
the rhythm of dit ditdahdah would be carried over into letters like F which
he would send as dit ditdahdit, etc.  As we became aware that what we were
doing was called a "net" and that nets often had names, we named our net in
honor of our ham-fisted buddy, and called it the QLF Net (QLF is an
unofficial Q signal for "I can't copy you.  Try sending with your left foot
for a while instead of your right").  From all that fun CW practice, in less
than a year, most of us had passed the General exam and set out for 80m
parts unknown with our chirpy VFOs and the N in our calls changed to an A.
That spelled the end of the QLF Net.  But a year or so later, I went back to
see what 3717 was like and called CQ one afternoon.  I was surprised to find
at least three enthusiastic responses from calls I did not recognize.  I
rounded them all up in a roundtable and soon found out that they seemed to
know who I was.  It turns out that each of them had become fans of the QLF
Net as SWLs while trying to learn CW to get their license.  They were
teenage groupies of the QLF Net.  They lamented the demise of the QLF net,
but I assured them that they surely must be the logical heirs of the net and
should immediately revive it as their own, which they did.  
   So that's my 80m story.  At 14, that was my 15 minutes of 80m fame.  My
love for 80m persisted and I ended up doing a lot of ragchewing and traffic
handling on CW, but it all ended when I got my driving "ticket" and
discovered girls.  My next megahertzian romance was 40m 20 years later, but
that's a different story and I think I used up my bandwidth for today.

73's de WA1X


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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:17:31 -0700
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Subject: [Elecraft] Your favorite bands
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It's been a while since I sent out a general question like this:  What
is/are your favorite band(s) and why?  Let's hear lots of good stories
here.

That CW neophyte,
Jeff


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[Thom LaCosta]

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Dudley Chapman wrote:

>   So that's my 80m story.  At 14, that was my 15 minutes of 80m fame.  My
> love for 80m persisted and I ended up doing a lot of ragchewing and traffic
> handling on CW, but it all ended when I got my driving "ticket" and
> discovered girls.

Thanks for the memories....I have similar ones that revolve around 75 meter
phone...and one of the "members" of out group is a QRP op these days....Hank
Kohl  K8DD

73
Thom-k3hrn

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[Ron D'Eau Claire-2]

-----Original Message-----
Dudley Chapman wrote:
> My love for 80m persisted and I ended up doing a lot of ragchewing and
> traffic handling on CW, but it all ended when I got my driving
> "ticket" and discovered girls.
---------------------------

You were just looking in the wrong places. My high school girlfriend was a
Ham. We used to go "mountaintopping" together 1950's style with a Gonset
"Communicator" that ran off of the car battery - pack a picnic and drive to
some imposing summit like nearby 10,000 foot Black Mountain and work a
little 2 meter A.M. all by ourselves until one of us would decide that we'd
better not run down the battery...

Nowadays a fellow can take his Honey hiking with a KX1 and "forget" to take
a spare set of batteries...

Ron AC7AC





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