[Hallicrafters] Re: Hallicrafters Digest, Vol 51, Issue 27

[jeremy-ca]

My alert for decades has been three yard sale scanners that cover 42-46 MHz 
and are set for CHP and a few S-SW utilities that are always transmitting. 
When the cops come thru its double hop and single hop for the FL/TX/LA 
frequencies which sometimes double hop into the Caribbean and Central 
America.

For F2 I listened to 46-49 MHz TV carriers from VK and elsewhere. I dont 
think there will be any more CH 1 activity from Europe the next cycle.

Antenna is staggered HB 3 el's on the chimney. The scanner rebroadcasts to a 
little FM band transmitter which covers the full property area with a good 
signal.

When DX season is running I also keep Packet Cluster running with an audible 
alert for 6M spots.

I "try" to not miss much! The KW rig handles CW/SSB and a Clegg Zeus and 
Interceptor covers AM.

Hallicrafters content is that the 6M transverter is a modified HA-6.

Carl
KM1H



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
To: "TC Dailey" <daileyservices at qwest.net>
Cc: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Re: Hallicrafters Digest, Vol 51, Issue 27


> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 6:58 PM, TC Dailey <daileyservices at qwest.net> 
> wrote:
>
>>  I used the same trick in Kansas City, back in the early 70's for 
>> monitoring
>> 6m propagation.  I had a beater TV (you could barely see the pic) it was
>> tuned to Channel 2, which was about 125 miles away in St. Joseph, MO (KC 
>> had
>> NO Channel 2 - good thing).  Attached to my Telrex 4-element 
>> "tee-matched"
>> beam, it watched for Channel 2.  If the signal strength began to climb 
>> up,
>> eventually this would turn on a darlington-pair amp, which triggered a
>> relay, which turned on a bell in the kitchen - shazam, I'd run upstairs -
>> hook up the Clegg Venus, and ALWAYS worked the openings, when other guys
>> wondered how I knew.
>
> I LIKE it!  A propagation alarm, that's creativity at its best.  :D
>
>>  CONELRAD - answer to the Red Menace.
>
> Sometimes I miss the commies. My Kaar Conalert II and Morrow receivers
> stand silent. Other than that little detail of obliterating the world
> several times over, they had some cool toys. And the Cold War really
> drove technology to new heights, beyond anything we thought possible.
> Our new-age socialists are nowhere near as interesting or clever.
> Instead of 'Duck and Cover' it becomes 'Stop and Shake your head in
> Disgust'.
>
> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ (with Clegg Venus, Zeus, and Interceptor at the ready)
> ______________________________________________________________