[Elecraft] Mojo

Mon Jan 27 14:30:23 2003

Ron wrote:
> I like your quote about being a "fool" too! I heard a line in a play
> that stuck with me, "A Wise man is just someone who has had the guts to
> ask all the foolish questions."
>
> Ron AC7AC

A Mr W. Shakespeare wrote something similar:

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Mr W S is a bit of a pain sometimes, because he has a quote for just about
everything. A "Man for All Seasons" you might say.

Tony
M3CJF
G7IGG

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron D'Eau Claire" <[email protected]>
To: "'Kevin B. G. Luxford'" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 4:18 PM
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Mojo

> You got it!
>
> I think that most of us who feel that we need to tinker with radios must
> have some sort of experience like that in my background.
>
> I like your quote about being a "fool" too! I heard a line in a play
> that stuck with me, "A Wise man is just someone who has had the guts to
> ask all the foolish questions."
>
> Ron AC7AC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin B. G. Luxford [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 3:42 AM
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> 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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