[HBR] Testing The 1929 Rig...

[Ed Swynar]

Hi Walt,

Many thanks for the "...SWL report", hi hi.

Will you be on the 1929 QSO Party this weekend, so we can actually WORK one
another...?

~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ





----- Original Message -----
From: <waltah at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [HBR] Testing The 1929 Rig...


> Ed Swynar wrote:
> > in the day time, look for me between 7030- and 7050-KHz.
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> Heard in Virginia at about 1545 EST, RST 539C at about 7023 kcs.
> TOO COOL!   Noise level about S2 but easy copy over that.
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> Darned good sig for a keyed oscillator on 40 -- about 1kcs of chirp.
> Either you were retuning or the thing is pretty stable -- it was well
> within the 2.4 kcs passband, the whole time.  Keying is perfect, it
> seems to me.
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> Yeah, I was copying on the HBR-4; isn't there a rule that vintage
> signals can only be copied on vintage or homebrew equipment?
> Well ... maybe not.
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> Then I tuned up the band a ways and listened to a nice stable
> modern signal, with keying so hard that I could hear clicks for 10
> kcs each way.
>
> Walt
> KJ4KV
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