[Hammarlund] Has anyone here ever "built" a SP-600?

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

The FCC database has my middle name incorrect, as it is Brice not Bruce. Sorry
Phil, if you were refering to the sixties song about 'big bad Bruce', the gay
hair dresser, you will have to share it without me. 
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From: Philip Atchley <beaconeer at sbcglobal.net>
To: Duane Fischer, W8DBF <dfischer at usol.com>; hammarlund at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] Has anyone here ever "built" a SP-600?
Date: Friday, June 10, 2005 2:29 AM

Duane et al,

Since this was sent to the list I guess I'd better reply via the list.

Actually, I'm having a ball.  I love to homebrew stuff and it's rare that I 
get a project of this magnitude, and I don't even have to buy the parts 
<grin>.  Everything is supplied for both sets.  When I get finished I expect 
that BOTH sets will be good ones, and one will even have a product detector. 
Besides, the one I "build" will probably look nicer than the other one since 
everything is spotlessly clean and even the panel is in better overall shape.

And Duane, as to purple, what's in a name?  Barney isn't a dumpster diver, he 
has some very nice radios, many that I've overhauled for him (Collins LF/HF 
like a baby R-390, I forget the model, SX-62, BC-1004, Military R-100 etc). 
You and I have the same middle name (Bruce) and for me anyway, that caused all 
kinds of grief when I was growing up (kids can be cruel, especially when 
there's a suggestive parody song about your name).

Well, I sure hope that I can hear "one more beacon".  Summer time IS NOT the 
beacon hunting season as the very high T-storm noise makes anything but the 
strongest LF beacons inaudible.  EXAMPLE:  I just checked the lightning map of 
the USA, there have been 45,123 lightning strikes in the past two hours, a 
typical summers evening.

73 de Phil,  KO6BB

> Mr. Beacon,
>
> See this annoying comment in your footer: "991 Different NDB's heard to 
> date."
>
> Would you please stop fooling around with these radios this dumpster diver
> buddy of yours keeps dropping off for you to fix, give him back the good 
> one, an
> leave you with a big dumb grin and a butt high pile of parts and hear nine 
> more
> of those blasted beacons? After months and months of that "991", please hear 
> at
> least one more! Even Frogzilla is getting annoyed. Now I know your friend is
> purple, (do not ask people!) and that is the one color that Frogzilla really
> really hates! Are you getting some conductivity across that spark gap path
> between your ears?  So dig yourself out of those parts and stop rumaging 
> around
> among them like a four year old who found his mother's purse unattended and 
> is
> going through it looking for the pink fruit flavored gum, coins for the Day 
> Care
> center video games they keep where the teachers go and send those smoke 
> signals
> like the Indians used to do, TV remote for momand Dad's bedroom TV with all 
> the
> good channels on it and those really cool funny looking balloons in the foil
> packages that your big sister got into trouble for blowing up when the
> Missionary visiting your Church came for dinner! PLEASE Phil, get into your
> beacon seekin' mood mode and hear one more beacon!
>