[ADXA] Speaking of tube type mobiles. Another installation situation in a Monza.

Sun Aug 18 17:53:47 EDT 2019

Money we spent whilst owning Corvettes could have been invested more wisely
on HF Gear.
(pictured is KE5EIW)
73, QJ

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On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 8:30 AM HamOP <k5yy1 at cox.net> wrote:

> *I had the same thing while at Georgia Tech in 1961-63, using my Swan 120
> or whatever it was that was the single band SSB xcvr on 20m. BUT, the car
> was a new Corvaire Monza with trunk up front and engine in the rear. Had a
> mobile antenna installed by my drilling a HOLE on top the left rear fender
> area and installing a mobile antenna that bent in the middle about 3 foot
> up where you could lower it at a right angle towards the front of the car.
> When upright you had to slide up a twist metal device that held it together
> vertical. I just knew some Sigma Nu brother was going to remove my antenna
> at the bottom and just leave the big spring. Have had a lot of Vettes over
> the years, started the NWAR Vette club in mid 1996, but never had a rig in
> one thank God. Real gutsy David. hi hi   Later mobile stuff was only on 2m
> FM and a short magnetic antenna was used. That was in Hot Springs in the
> 70s.*
>
> *San*
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> *From: *Jay Bromley <jayw5jay at cox.net>
> *Sent: *Saturday, August 17, 2019 10:34 PM
> *To: *'David Norris' <k5uz at icloud.com>
> *Cc: *ADXA at mailman.qth.net
> *Subject: *Re: [ADXA] Speaking of tube type mobiles.
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> I hope you have pictures to share at the next ADXA meeting!
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> 73 de jay..
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> *From:* David Norris <k5uz at icloud.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, August 17, 2019 10:11 PM
> *To:* Jay Bromley <jayw5jay at cox.net>
> *Cc:* WB5JJJ <wb5jjj at gmail.com>; ADXA at mailman.qth.net
> *Subject:* Re: [ADXA] Speaking of tube type mobiles.
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> I had an FT 101E mobile in my car in college. It was in a 1967 Sting Ray
> roadster and I set the rig in the hold behind the seats centered to where I
> could reach back and tune the rig. I had a hustler that was on a home brew
> mount bolted to the rear of the frame (due to the fiberglass body). It
> worked DX pretty well too. The coolest and fastest mobile of its time. A
> tube final rig in a classic car in the early 80’s.  And there was one other
> ADXA member that could work CW mobile and drive a stick...
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> 73
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> David A. Norris, K5UZ
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> Director, Delta Division
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> On Aug 17, 2019, at 3:49 PM, Jay Bromley <jayw5jay at cox.net> wrote:
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> I am fairly sure with the Galaxy he was running SSB.
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> The old cars with old tube base stations are stuck in my mind, hi.
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> 73 de jay..
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> *From:* adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> *On
> Behalf Of *WB5JJJ
> *Sent:* Saturday, August 17, 2019 11:36 AM
> *To:* ADXA at mailman.qth.net
> *Subject:* [ADXA] Speaking of tube type mobiles.
>
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> How many of you have ever been guilty of this teenage indulgence?  This
> all happened probably 10 years before I got my license.  I knew all about
> Amateur Radio, but had too many other things on my mind back then to study
> and learn CW, to get a license.
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> Back in my early Navy days (~1967), I was stationed in Maryland going to a
> school.  A classmate had a Galaxy (I think) tube rig in the floorboard on
> the passenger side of his car.  And what looked like a huge whip on the
> rear bumper, and I remember he was on 14Mhz and working the world at
> night.  Some things just stick to memory cells.  Now, I don't remember if
> he was running SSB or AM, but some of you old timers might chime in on the
> technology of the day.
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> The radio was aglow in white light from the filaments and when he
> transmitted there was a loud kerchunk from the T/R relays, then a couple of
> the tubes got cherry red and the engine revved up bit.  In the summer, with
> the windows down (no A/C), my legs got hot from not only the tubes, but
> probably a lot of stray RF.
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> Now the fun part.  He would park in front of the base movie theater and
> when he talked, the neon would modulate with his voice.  He was lighting up
> neon for about 10' either side of his antenna, which was within a couple
> feet of the bottom row of neon.
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> Don't know what the other folks on base though of the light display, but
> we sure enjoyed the light show.
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>
> George - WB5JJJ
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