[ARC5] ARC5 Digest, Vol 173, Issue 31

Mkdorney mkdorney at aol.com
Tue Jun 19 12:40:49 EDT 2018 

Contesting is not my thing, so I wouldn’t know. But it’s a big deal with our local club on field day. So I work the go-to station and make sure the kids have fun. 

Mark
WW2RDO

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> On Jun 18, 2018, at 9:25 PM, jbrannig <jbrannig at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> I used a lot of tube gear in various contests, seperates, amps with plug in coils, S-lines, etc.
> 
> BUT,  contest software and  a rig connected to a computer....is the difference between working a contest and enjoying one.
> 
> Spend hours dupe checking a paper log with 800+ QSO's and producing a contest summary......or click and send.....
> Band maps, spotting, one click band change.
> 
> While I'm still comfortable sending with my right hand and writing a log with my left....typing in calls beats all... and no glass arm the next day...
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>    1. Re: ARC5 Digest, (Christopher Bowne)
>    2. Re: ARC5 Digest, Vol 173, Issue 29 (Glen Zook)
>    3. Re: Batteries That Do Not Corrode? (Robert Downs)
>    4. Re: ARC5 Digest, Vol 173, Issue 29 (Mkdorney)
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> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 18:03:04 -0400
> From: Christopher Bowne <aj1g at sbcglobal.net>
> To: w8au at sssnet.com
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> That?s why I?m running a CE 20A/600L and Halli receivers of late , with the factory converted T-20/ARC-5 VFO, while my Yaesu FT-100D is OOC, probably permanently.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Jun 18, 2018, at 17:30, w8au at sssnet.com wrote:
> > 
> > At 05:11 PM 6/18/2018, jbrannig wrote:
> >> Unless you use tube gear for CW contesting......
> > 
> > And tube gear can be repaired for a long time to come since standard parts are used.
> > Try to fix a solid state rig containing IC's produced for a specific production or time frame
> > and you are out of luck.
> > 
> >> .................................................................................
> >> Mark D.  WW2RDO wrote:
> >> Bet you don't find a lot of vacuum tube gear still being used. If vacuum tube stuff were easy to keep operating, everybody could do it.? The latest, greatest wiz bag gear is easy to get and use if you have the money to do it.? Where's the fun in that?? I feel sorry for the guys who don't use the old gear.?
> >> Keep 'em glowing
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 22:19:30 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com>
> To: jbrannig <jbrannig at verizon.net>, "arc5 at mailman.qth.net"
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> Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARC5 Digest, Vol 173, Issue 29
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> If you are in an area that has a fair number of contesters, then a lot of the solid-state equipment goes "belly up" and the tube type gear keeps rolling along!? "Front end" overload!
> 
> Actually, with equipment like the Collins S-Line or Heath SB-Line, and with appropriate CW filters, tube type equipment can keep right up with the "modern" equipment and, usually, with a cleaner signal!?
> Glen, K9STH?
> Website: http://k9sth.net
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>       From: jbrannig <jbrannig at verizon.net>
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> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2018 4:12 PM
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> Unless you use tube gear for CW contesting......
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> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 17:42:51 -0500
> From: "Robert Downs" <wa5cab at cs.com>
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> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Batteries That Do Not Corrode?
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> They did and they do.  As I just told Jim, I corrected the error the next
> day but there is no way on a reflector to un-ring the bell.
> 
> Robert Downs
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> From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
> Behalf Of Richard Knoppow
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2018 2:22 PM
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Batteries That Do Not Corrode?
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>     I have the same impression. I read something recently about 
> how these batteries were assembled but don't remember where. 
> Maybe on the web. However a google search for lantern batteries 
> turned up
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_battery   Which mentions 
> both D and F cells.
> Also:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battery_sizes
> which has dimensions. F cells are about half way down.
> 
> On 6/18/2018 12:04 PM, Jim Wiley wrote:
> > I always thought that a standard? "lantern battery" consisted of 
> > four type "F" cells, not "D" cells.
> > 
> > - Jim, KL7CC
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> Richard Knoppow
> 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
> WB6KBL
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 20:18:26 -0400
> From: Mkdorney <mkdorney at aol.com>
> To: Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "arc5 at mailman.qth.net" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>,	jbrannig
> <jbrannig at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARC5 Digest, Vol 173, Issue 29
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> But it?s not the latest wiz-bang gear!!! Won?t that upset the Amateur Radio elite??
> 
> Keep ?em glowing
> 
> Mark D
> WW2RDO
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Jun 18, 2018, at 6:19 PM, Glen Zook via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> > 
> > If you are in an area that has a fair number of contesters, then a lot of the solid-state equipment goes "belly up" and the tube type gear keeps rolling along!  "Front end" overload!
> > 
> > 
> > Actually, with equipment like the Collins S-Line or Heath SB-Line, and with appropriate CW filters, tube type equipment can keep right up with the "modern" equipment and, usually, with a cleaner signal!
> >  
> > 
> > Glen, K9STH 
> > 
> > Website: http://k9sth.net
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> > 
> > From: jbrannig <jbrannig at verizon.net>
> > To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
> > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2018 4:12 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARC5 Digest, Vol 173, Issue 29
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> > Unless you use tube gear for CW contesting......
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