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6154
J, Bunch of photos coming your way this AM. WF w2dgb ... From: John Dilks K2TQN To: AWA Newsgroup ; cc-awa@egroups.com Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 7:46 PM ...
Bill W2DGB
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May 1, 2007
11:38 am
6155
... Hi John, If you mean the flea market at the conference last summer in Rochester, I have some photos here - ...
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May 1, 2007
11:42 pm
6156
It might be difficult to get good pictures because everyone was spread out. Maybe if we advance the orange security fence in a couple more rows this year we...
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May 7, 2007
10:38 am
6157
Hi all, I am in the process of designing my very first QSL card. My interests are antique and vintage equipment and I would like my card to be similarly...
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May 8, 2007
9:02 pm
6158
On No. 1: the 1916 Marconi Yearbook says QRK means "How are you receiving" / "I am receiving well." QSR means "Will you dispatch the radiotelegram?" / "I...
Ludwell Sibley
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May 9, 2007
5:31 am
6159
I'm trying to help a friend get a speaker reconed. The guys at Speaker Doctor want to know what the resistance reading should be across the voice coil. The...
Ron Lawrence KC4YOY
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May 9, 2007
8:42 am
6160
Ron....speaker voice coil impedances ran from 4 to 16 ohms....most common was 8 ohms Norm K1AA ... From: Ron Lawrence KC4YOY To: AWA reflector ;...
Norm Gertz
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May 9, 2007
1:25 pm
6161
Going from memory ... Always a risky proposition. Many if not most "entertainment" radios used a 3.2 ohm voice coil _Impedance_, (usually measured at 1000...
Garey Barrell
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May 9, 2007
2:09 pm
6162
Lud......In the early days the amateurs and commercial operators had many Q signals which were only used by that particular service. QRK to me always meant...
Norm Gertz
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May 9, 2007
4:20 pm
6163
... You haven't heard or participated in the AWA 1929 QSO Party, then, have you? ;>) 73, -Larry/NE1S...
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May 9, 2007
4:45 pm
6164
Ok, well maybe then the mystery (to me) has been solved. I looked up a bunch more of these old QSL cards and the ones listed below all say something to the...
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May 9, 2007
4:51 pm
6165
The four-letter codes were ARRL specials, a sort of dialect for "amateur radio" use. As laid out in the '26 Handbook, QRAR: "Is your callbook address...
Ludwell Sibley
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May 9, 2007
5:57 pm
6166
Larry....god bless those guys who fire up the TNT and Hartley rigs.....they certainly qualify for some very exotic radiation.... 73 Norm K1AA ... From: ne1s...
Norm Gertz
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May 9, 2007
5:58 pm
6167
Eugene.....QSLL essentially means "I will respond to your QSL with one of mine".. 73 Norm K1AA ... From: eugene@... To:...
Norm Gertz
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May 9, 2007
7:01 pm
6168
... He was talking about resistance, he was using a digital VOM to try and read the coil resistance. He didn't have a set of clip leads so he was having...
Ron Lawrence KC4YOY
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May 9, 2007
9:22 pm
6169
Yeah, that's about right for a 3.2 ohm impedance voice coil. I had a friend who went through a whole case of speakers looking for one that read the 3.2 ohm...
Garey Barrell
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May 9, 2007
9:33 pm
6170
If you really wish to know, buy an HP200 series Audio Oscillator at the next Ham Fest. I then connect a 6.8 ohm (carbon) resistor (which you would measure...
Dave McClellan
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May 9, 2007
11:11 pm
6171
Can someone tell me when, and by whom, the first TRF receiver became available to the general public? Thank you....
Fredric M. London
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May 10, 2007
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6172
On Thu, 10 May 2007 06:16:26 -0000, you wrote ... Here's a candidate: http://www.dighera.com/marconiphone_v2_early_version.htm In 1922 Marconi's Wireless...
Larry Dighera
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May 10, 2007
11:54 am
6173
I'm kinda surprised he was looking for DC resistance though. Our replacement cones were marked with impedance rather than DC resistance. Again, really not all...
Tom Herman
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May 10, 2007
12:58 pm
6174
I don't have an answer, BUT, I think you need to define the number of stages. If it is defined as one, then it would be the first Fleming valve (diode)...
Lane Upton
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May 10, 2007
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6175
... If the impedance is around 4-6 ohms and the power handling capacity is around 3-10 watts the speaker should work well on that radio. I have a 37-620 with...
Wade
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May 10, 2007
5:55 pm
6176
TRF radios first came to market between 1921 1922. They had two or three dials. One to tune the antenna stage then the detector stage. # dial radios tunned the...
david ellers
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May 11, 2007
12:15 am
6177
Some weeks ago a person was looking for a hard to find knob. Was that post on this list? 73, gary =========////////========== Gary H. Harmon, Jr. - K5JWK 6003...
Gary H. Harmon Jr.
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May 11, 2007
3:16 pm
6178
I think that Ron Lawrence kc4yoy@... was looking for some unobtainable knob. Tom K3TVC ... From: Gary H. Harmon Jr. To:...
Tom Chesek
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May 11, 2007
3:29 pm
6179
Hello, anybody having this sleeper in the drawer: CV220 = NSP 1 ..strobe tubes, 1-3 pcs, must be functionable, preferably new. Please email off list to me at ...
Jan Wuesten
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May 11, 2007
4:13 pm
6180
Thanks Tom. =========////////========== Gary H. Harmon, Jr. - K5JWK 6003 Archwood San Antonio, TX 78239-1504 210.657.1549 - Home 210.884.6926 - Cell ...
Gary H. Harmon Jr.
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May 12, 2007
12:36 am
6181
Thank you Dave. Do you know the first manufacturer to offer one? Thanks again. Fred...
Fredric M. London
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May 12, 2007
3:22 am
6182
Don't forget, the CC-AWA Spring Swap Meet is NEXT Saturday. May 19th at the North Carolina Transportation Museum, "Spencer Shops" in Spencer NC. Details...
Ron Lawrence KC4YOY
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May 12, 2007
8:48 pm
6183
Here's later scoop on the Sarnoff Library fundraising. The Antique Radio Club of Illinois deserves congratulations for contributing $1000; similarly the New...
Ludwell Sibley
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May 13, 2007
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