[CW] petitions for rulemaking

Mon, 29 Mar 2004 06:11:41 -0800 (PST)

--- Donald Chester <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I passed my Novice test in 1959, I used the
> two-month waiting period 
> before the ticket arrived, to build my 30-watt
> 6AG7-807 homebrew transmitter 
> and get it working into a light bulb.  I still
> needed help from the 
> experienced ham who gave me the exam to get it to
> load into a real antenna.  

like you, my first rig (as a novice) was homebrewed 
from an old arrl handbook. it was a 1 tube power
oscillator, with a 6146, about 18 watts input to the
plate. i didn't have the most beautiful note on the 
cw band, but i got by.

by comparison, a heavy-duty contester who lives 
several miles from me has a beautiful yaesu 
ft1000d (i think it is), which he drives into a
commercially manufactured kilowatt amplifier, and
produces the most beautiful key clicks you've ever
heard that extend tens of kilohertz up and down the
band. so much for commercially manufactured gear
not having "issues"!

personally, i'm more concerned that the homebrewing
aspect of the amateur radio will be diminished than
i am that a few hams will have "warbley" or "drifty"
signals on the air.

73,
scott nj0e

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Scott McMullen, NJ0E
http://www.geocities.com/scottamcmullen
[email protected]
Dripping Springs, Texas

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