[Drake] Re: Drake digest, Vol 1 #20 - 2 msgs

Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:13:01 -0800

Is this a Drake List er wot?

73, Don - W7DAH

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>    1. Drake's Welcome Too! (Duane Fischer, W8DBF)
>    2. FS MFJ 4125 POWER SUPPLY (ni4l)
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> From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 23:32:44 -0500
> Subject: [Drake] Drake's Welcome Too!
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>
>
> Park that snowmobile, ground the surf board, hang up the ice skates and put
the
> Jet Ski in dry dock. Power up the Hallicrafters, or other boat anchor, and
join
> us for the Sunday January 20th Hallicrafters Collectors International 20
meter
> Net. Yea, I know, there is a VHF/UHF contest going on, but if you tire of
trying
> to bounce signals off a bald headed alien atop a Moon rock,
>  Jovian moon or SUV parked atop Pikes Peak, join us. The pre-Net frequency
warm
> up, (thaw the vertical and de-ice the Mosley elements), will commence at
1:00 PM
> EST, (1800 UTC) The HCI Net officially splits the clouds asunder with hotter
> than an active volcano's breath electrons at 1:15 PM EST, (1815 UTC). The
> frequency will be 14.293 Mhz usb +/- for key clicks, mike splatter and the
sound
> of Barney the purple Dinosaur sizzling as rebellious eight year olds roast
him
> in their Easy Bake ovens in protest for not being authentic during National
> Prehistoric Creature Week!
>
> We have had absolutely fantastic participation thus far in 2002! I realize
that
> sometimes time runs out before I can get all of those who check in called,
and I
> apologize for that. I am generally on the air at 12:35-12:40 PM EST,
(1735-1740
> UTC), so do not hesitate to show up early and give me a call. If I do not
have a
> toothbrush stuck in my mouth trying to get the pepperoni out from between my
eye
> teeth so I can see what I am saying, or am under the desk looking for the
3X5
> index card decorated with Braille notes that rudely blew off when I
accidentally
> belched after a good snort of carbonated Coke, I will promptly respond to
your
> call. If I do not, keep calling.
>
> I have been having a blast with MW Dxing as of late. (MW = standard
broadcast
> stations) Back in 1961, when some of you were still wearing three cornered
pants
> and trying to suck those Playtex nurser bottles into a collapsed state, I
was
> using my borrowed Minerva Tropic Master WW2 morale receiver to listen to
> short-wave and medium wave stations. I had an Allied Electronics catalog
with
> more
> dog earred pages than you can find in an AKC Kennel show dog photo flyer! I
> lusted after the girl next door ... Oops, that's a different story. I lusted
> after a Hallicrafters receiver to hear those wonderous waves with. I had my
eye
> on the SX-100, but the price was prohibitive for a fifteen year old teenage
boy
> whose weekly earnings doing odd jobs amounted to one tenth of the average
> allowance a Kindergarten student receives today. I decided that the S-108
would
> be more attainable and started stuffing my piggy bank, a ceramic Playboy
Bunny
> my brother conned somebody out of, with my lawn mowing profits.
>
> The twelve QSL cards used for the HCI Short-Wave Monitor certificate borders
> were gotten with the Minerva Tropic Master, with two exceptions. TWR from
the
> Netherlands Antilles on November 28, 1965 and ORU from Brussels, Belgium on
> February 27, 1967 were heard with the S-108. I had lost my eyesight on
October
> 21, 1964 due to a stranger shooting me instead of a Pheasant. After that,
the
> world of radio took on an entirely different perspective for me. In latter
> years, 1997, it saved my life.
>
> The warm resonant sound of a short-wave or medium wave station on a vintage
> receiver like my Hallicrafters SX-100 and SX-117 is almost magnetic. One
forgets
> just how good radio can sound until he/she listens with a good
Hallicrafters, or
> other vintage receiver, from the days when all radios went glow in the dark.
If
> you have strayed from your radio roots, take some time and do some SW or MW
band
> cruising one evening. You will hear many old familiar voices from the golden
> days of radio still bouncing off the ionosphere into your home and your
heart.
> It is a very special feeling that words can not describe and today's
generation
> will never fully comprehend.
>
> Please tune in tomorrow and bring along a tale to tell from your glory days
in
> radio. Tell us about the great DX catches you made, verified or not. Share
with
> us the types of equipment you used, the antennas you built or improvised and
the
> tricks you used to pull the faint voice in the distance out of the fog and
onto
> your log sheet. Share with us those radio memories from a time when radio
was
> King and TV dinners had not yet been thought of.
>
> I hope to hear a whole lot of you tomorrow, so warm up those things that
still
> go glow in the dark and let's talk radio. REAL radio, that is! Vintage
> Hallicrafters and other classics from the era of vacuum tubes, instead of a
> vacuum between the ears! Hear you then!
>
>
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF  (WPE8CXO)
> NCS: Hallicrafters Collectors International
> [email protected]
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 01:11:31 -0500
> From: ni4l <[email protected]>
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Drake] FS MFJ 4125 POWER SUPPLY
>
>  I have a good mfj 4125  switching power supply
> here is the link for the specs and pic of it.
> http://www.mfjenterprises.com/products.php?prodid=MFJ-4125
>
> I will let it go for 75.00 shipped to your door in the us.
> have box for it also.
>
> thanks chris NI4L
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