[AMRadio] Winter

[Bernie Doran]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" 
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Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Winter


> Todd, just a quick note:  I heard from Steve W9SWR that an ultrasonic bath
> is a great way to clean submersible parts.  Knobs, coils, RF connectors,
> caps, etc., the gunk just comes right off with a 20 or 30 minute bath then
> rinse them off and they look great.  The hard part is finding an 
> ultrasonic
> bath that is big and powerful but for hams who are in restoration in a big
> way it's a great technique.   Even a small one can handle knobs and
> connectors.
>
> 73
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Todd, KA1KAQ <ka1kaq at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think those SSB twirps moved off. They were up on 09 or 10 and
>> decided to light up and operate on 'their' frequency while complaining
>> about an ongoing AM group on 05 that had been there since late
>> afternoon. They all signed off in the last hour.
>>
>> Rob, 3725 is a long time Canadian AM frequency. I used to listen to
>> them on there years before that part of the bad was opened up to us
>> for 'fone operation. Heard Tim a week or so back with Al, VE3AJM and
>> some 8 lander who was pissweak. Worked Al for the first time since
>> moving south, S9 +30. Chatted with them most evenings back up north.
>>
>> I'm off to give the loading cap a quick bath now that it's been
>> de-burred, then back to the fun of trying to install it. Space is
>> tight in the RF deck, but at 200 lbs or more, removing the whole deck
>> by myself isn't an option anymore. Did it back in the early 90s, still
>> not sure how!
>>
>> ~ Todd/KAQ
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Well, I was on 3725 a little while ago with VE6PG, the other Tim Smith,
>> and
>> > Bill KB8USZ.  We called it a night a little while ago but had a good 
>> > QSO
>> for
>> > about 90 minutes with Tim on his Apache and Bill on a FT847 running 
>> > about
>> 25
>> > watts.  Bill was pretty tough to copy most of the time but at the end 
>> > (it
>> > always happens this way) he was a lot easier to hear.   I listened to
>> 3705
>> > but there's a bunch of SSB on and around it now.     So Greg, I think
>> > typically now it is 3705 outside of the "window."
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