[Elecraft] Mojo

Mon Jan 27 08:25:01 2003

Keep the stories coming guys, this is ham radio and mojo!

Jess
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin B. G. Luxford" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 4:41 AM
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Mojo

> Ron,
> Thanks for your very full answer complete with several examples.
> 
> I too have experienced it when newly licensed (VK6UI) in Perth, Western
> Australia around 1979.  I used to work on my glowbug CW xmitter at night
> and listen to a couple of old night owls on 2 mx.  At 3 am I broke in,
> much to their amazement that some other insomniac fool was on the band
> at that hour.  They asked me what I was doing.  Told them I had just
> finished wiring up the Class C amp for my 4 tube xmitter.  Asked me when
> I was going to test it.  Told them probably in the morning.  "No time
> like the present, son," one of them said.  So I fired the rig up while
> the pair listend for grunts, growls, whistles, clicks and harmonics.
> They reckoned it OK at about 4 am.  I sent a few test Vs and a station
> ID, then nearly died when a JA called me.  "What will I do?" I said into
> the 2 mx microphone.  "Reply to him, you silly b*****d."  (We Aussies
> are address each other in such affectionate ways).  Anyway first contact
> was on CW with a glowbug at about 4:10 am.  VFO a Geloso signal shifter
> - 6CL6 oscillator, 5763 driver, 0Ax regulator followed by a 6146 PA.
> 
> Now I know what mojo is.
> 
> Tnx es vy 73
> Kevin
> VK3DAP
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron D'Eau Claire
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 3:15 PM
> To: 'Kevin B. G. Luxford'; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Mojo
> 
> 
> Hi Kevin:
> 
> You've already gotten a number of more knowledgeable replies than I
> could give you about "mojo". 
> 
> I never knew the word before bumping into the Elecraft reflector. 
> 
> But I know there is something...
> 
> I first experienced it when I found the "sensitive" spot on the galena
> crystal and heard the faint sound of a "big band" coming from KFXM nine
> miles away from my home back in the 1940's. 
> 
> I know I felt it inside when my Dad beamed with pride listening to
> signals on a regenerative receiver that I built all by myself. 
> 
> I know it was there when I got my first answer as a Ham to a signal from
> my 6V6 oscillator. 
> 
> I know that it is addictive. Very addictive.
> 
>  I keep looking for ways to make it come back. Get what people so aptly
> describe today as another "rush" when that unknown thing works its
> spell. 
> 
> I have a hunch that a LOT of people building K-rigs got it when they
> first heard signals and when they first made contacts with them. 
> 
> I did. I felt it - whatever it is. 
> 
> All these years, since I strained to hear Benny Goodman's band on the
> crystal set when I could have turned on the big Philco console in the
> living room, there has been something special about a radio that I built
> that went far beyond simple reason.  Searching for it, whatever "it" is,
> is why I mess about with radios at all.
> 
> And I have a hunch that you know just what I am talking about, Kevin! 
> 
> I thought that maybe THAT was what folks here were calling "mojo". 
> 
> 
> Ron AC7AC
> 
> PS. There are no "dumb questions". 
> 
> 
> A dumb question from downunder, Ron:
> 
> What is mojo?
> 
> Thanks
> Kevin
> VK3DAP
> 
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