Re: Elecraft Digest, Vol 37, Issue 10
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I could say, I take it you haven't tried VFH contesting?
No, I'm a relatively new ham (never had a CB in my life) and VHF contesters in my club use a beep a lot. It was an honest question/suggestion from perhaps a naïve op. I've order a XV144 with my K3, because I want to run 2M too. However, I still haven't figured out why so many of you long term hams throw scorn etc on CB'ers (yes I;ve had some of the issues explained to me). I took my foundation with a couple ex CB'ers who wanted to do more DX. If we just turn them all away because they are/were CB'ers, we will be reducing the Ham fraternity even more. I think we need all the members we can get. However, I don't wish to be controversial or cause a=offence, so I'll leave it at that. On 4/5/07 18:30, "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]> sent: > > Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 09:30:56 +0100 > From: David Pratt <[hidden email]> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 - Roger beep > To: [hidden email] > Message-ID: <yic5Z$[hidden email]> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed > > Let's leave that until Elecraft bring out a 27MHz option for the K3! > > I take it you have come to amateur radio from CB? > > 73 > > In a recent message, David Ferrington <[hidden email]> wrote ... >> What do people think of an optional 'roger beep' (don't know any other term >> for it) at the end of each trasmission, i.e. triggered by the PTT coming >> off? >> >> M0XDF > > -- > David G4DMP > Leeds, England, UK -- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626) _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
RE: Re: Elecraft Digest, Vol 37, Issue 10
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Maybe people don't know/remember, but CB used to be civilized way back. I got into radio with a 100mw radio shack CB 'base station' one xtal tx (ch 14) and tunable receive. I was excited to work some older guys in the area, they were about 45 years old and ancient! No foul language, and everyone had a license and call sign, as I did when I got a 5 watt Lafayette rig. There was the older kid down the street with a beam, and likely a crappy amp as he got into peoples TV sets...but no foul language. Even today, there are places where its polite and nice on CB, in the country, in say Tennessee, when I went through on 40 to go to New Orleans after the big storm, nothing but nice stuff on CB. Soon as you hit the east coast, it was like a sewer... Brett N2DTS _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
RE: Re: Elecraft Digest, Vol 37, Issue 10
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KBQ7529, the Georgia Cowbow, back at you!
I have NO idea where the handle came from, maybe a leather hat, but I always lived in the city. Then one day I saw a Kenwood 2m rig make a phone patch. Two months later I was a tech, N4GMN. About six months after that I was an Advanced (same call), and before the FCC could say "quit using that silly sounding KBQfoolishness" I was an Amateur Extra, WG4S. (I lived less than a mile from the FCC testing office). I'd heard my cousin TALK about hamming in the sixties, but I didn't DO anything about it then, or after playing around with CBs for a few years. But that one autopatch I saw on that one radio made the whole thing come together for me. I've had far more CBs that ham rigs, I imagine. I started with a HW-101, moved up to a Swan (Cubic) Astro 103 and finally a K2. I don't remember ANY CB rig, but I know I had lots. At least one for each car, apartment and motorcycle. And now, I guess it's about time to join the QCWA, although I've lost my first logs and don't know when I got N4GMN. I got WG4S in November of 1982. Dan / KBQ7529 / N4GMN / WG4S / Good Buddy! -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]]On Behalf Of David Ferrington Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 1:53 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: [Elecraft] Re: Elecraft Digest, Vol 37, Issue 10 I could say, I take it you haven't tried VFH contesting? No, I'm a relatively new ham (never had a CB in my life) and VHF contesters in my club use a beep a lot. It was an honest question/suggestion from perhaps a naïve op. I've order a XV144 with my K3, because I want to run 2M too. However, I still haven't figured out why so many of you long term hams throw scorn etc on CB'ers (yes I;ve had some of the issues explained to me). I took my foundation with a couple ex CB'ers who wanted to do more DX. If we just turn them all away because they are/were CB'ers, we will be reducing the Ham fraternity even more. I think we need all the members we can get. However, I don't wish to be controversial or cause a=offence, so I'll leave it at that. On 4/5/07 18:30, "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]> sent: > > Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 09:30:56 +0100 > From: David Pratt <[hidden email]> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 - Roger beep > To: [hidden email] > Message-ID: <yic5Z$[hidden email]> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed > > Let's leave that until Elecraft bring out a 27MHz option for the K3! > > I take it you have come to amateur radio from CB? > > 73 > > In a recent message, David Ferrington <[hidden email]> wrote ... >> What do people think of an optional 'roger beep' (don't know any other >> for it) at the end of each trasmission, i.e. triggered by the PTT coming >> off? >> >> M0XDF > > -- > David G4DMP > Leeds, England, UK -- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626) _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
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