any ham radio op's around?

Worker Joined: Mar 30, 2009 Posts: 132

just curious. got any ham radio ops around this forums?

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:01 am

dah-dit dah-dah-dah di-dah-dah-dit dit
It was always too much like hard work sitting the exam in the UK and the fee was exhorbitent just to get a little RSGB lapel pin lol.
I dabbled with slow scan TV for a while but there was more fun to be had scaring the local CB'ers half to death after firing up a home brewed 2kw valve RF amp.
Those were the days......

Aerial design always held an interest for me though. My parents neighbors never knew what they would see when they opened their bedroom curtains but their faces were an absolute picture when I unveiled my replica 2metre, 6 element Yagi beam adorning the top of 66 foot of aluminium scaffolding poles Smile

If I remember correctly, the first radio I ever bought was an old '19' set that fell off the back of a tank.

Happy days.......

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:23 pm

Guardian2003 wrote:

dah-dit dah-dah-dah di-dah-dah-dit dit
It was always too much like hard work sitting the exam in the UK and the fee was exhorbitent just to get a little RSGB lapel pin lol.
I dabbled with slow scan TV for a while but there was more fun to be had scaring the local CB'ers half to death after firing up a home brewed 2kw valve RF amp.
Those were the days......

Aerial design always held an interest for me though. My parents neighbors never knew what they would see when they opened their bedroom curtains but their faces were an absolute picture when I unveiled my replica 2metre, 6 element Yagi beam adorning the top of 66 foot of aluminium scaffolding poles Smile

If I remember correctly, the first radio I ever bought was an old '19' set that fell off the back of a tank.

Happy days.......

lol, back in my cb days i was quite the nightmare. galaxy 2980,black cat modulator driving a heathkit sb-200 drving a home make 5KW. total pep power 7KW

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:48 am

Nice.
I don't remember the Galaxy but my first CB rig was a broken Hi-Gain V which I fixed and 'fettled'. I don't remember the original Freq spread, something like 26 - 28 Mhz but it finally ended up with 25.5 to 30Mhz.
I remember some of the CB guys at the time were buying some Jap imported Ham gear at the time in an effort to 'escape' from the crowded 27Mhz spectrum and they wear always shocked to here to the hear Hy-Gain's 'squeek' (roger beep).

Wow this is a trip down memory lane.... Superstar2000, Colonel360's but all the cybernet chassis gear was 'flexible' in terms of quick modding.

Of course then they made CB's legal in the UK but used some obscure freg range and channel seperation to ensure none of the US stuff was legal Sad

Kinda took the fun out of it then.

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:11 am

yea the uk cb i believe uses FM and the upper end of the 11 meter band

http://www.rigpix.com/cbfreeband/galaxy_saturn.htm <- galaxy saturn, also same as rci 2980 had many of these at one time

http://www.galaxyradios.com/88.html galaxy dx-88hl used these for moble

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:06 pm

Hearing you clean and green.

I can't remember the radio my dad had, but I can remember many times waiting for my dad to come home and sitting by the radio waiting for him to come into signal.

10-10 over and out.

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:27 pm

jakec wrote:

Hearing you clean and green.

I can't remember the radio my dad had, but I can remember many times waiting for my dad to come home and sitting by the radio waiting for him to come into signal.

10-10 over and out.

i myself gave up the cb garbage 10 years ago and went ham.

so now i sound like this

-.-. --.- / -.-. --.- / -.. . / -.- -.. ---.. .... .... --- / -.-. --.-

or

Dah-di-dah-dit Dah-dah-di-dah, Dah-di-dah-dit Dah-dah-di-dah, Dah-di-dit Dit, Dah-di-dah Dah-di-dit Dah-dah-dah-di-dit Di-di-di-dit Di-di-di-dit Dah-dah-dah, Dah-di-dah-dit Dah-dah-di-dah

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:32 pm

Far too complicated for me. Laughing

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:24 pm

Darn my morse is rusty, I thought you put DE instead of DX then

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:34 pm

Guardian2003 wrote:

Darn my morse is rusty, I thought you put DE instead of DX then

actually is is DE.

cq cq de kd8hho cq

DE short for this is

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:44 pm

Well that just shows you how long ago it was (nearly 30 years) as I don't even remember what the DE shorthand was for as I never used it.

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:00 am

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:14 pm

Guardian2003 wrote:

Well that just shows you how long ago it was (nearly 30 years) as I don't even remember what the DE shorthand was for as I never used it.

lol, cw or code actually is kinda fun. been able to make contacts with people with cw where ssb was no chance.

registered · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:21 am

My dad is still an operator and runs two websites that sell ham gear.

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:42 pm

technocrat wrote:

My dad is still an operator and runs two websites that sell ham gear.

cool. care to share?

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:47 pm

hamcq.com and newhamstore.com

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:37 pm

i get a 10% discount rite Razz

nice sites actually.