[AMRadio] Winter

Thu Sep 30 22:37:29 EDT 2010

Not much chance of laying my mitts on one at 2230 on a Thursday night
in the boondocks. We had one in the photo lab I worked for back in the
late 80s. Stainless steel and plywood coated with urethane, worked
great until I decided to melt some dry ice in the wooden part for
effect. Looked great, but cracked the coating and made the sink leak.
Boss was not please. Not as mad as he was when I put the cardboard
shark fin in our storefront window display full of fake icebergs,
snow, and penguins, but that's a story for another day.....

Back to the fun!

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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