[Heathkit] Fwd: Seeking Duane Fischer as a dummy load

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 00:09:02 -0500

Robert I agree, it was sort of funny.  Can you just envision Duane's hair
up in the air while Frogzilla attempts to give him a haircut with hedge
shears?  Too funny!!  I'm sure ol' Duane will have a Green Toad chapter
on that one!
As for this bickering, it only goes to prove that the Amateur Radio
Service has sunk to that barely above the CB swamp.  Constant
in-fighting, loss of frequencies, antenna restrictions, etc.  As I'm in
emergency services for my county, most of the mobile communications in my
car, which would ordinarily be set on Amateur frequencies, are set on law
enforcement, fire, and ems frequencies due to the lack of activity on
area repeaters.  I only have two repeaters frquencies installed in the
Motorolas.  This was once a great hobby.  Sadly, I feel it now has one
foot in the grave.

Elden- KB9OEX

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:14:36 +0000 "Robert Bash" <[email protected]>
writes:
> Hi,
> 
> That one about the hair was just as funny as anything Duane has sent 
> out 
> earlier concerning that cyber-punk stuff he rants on about 
> occassionally.
> 
> Who care's if the fellow has a ham ticket?  What does that mean 
> anymore, 
> anyway?  I have an extra-class license.  Gee-wiz!  I couldn't pass 
> the 
> advance test in 1970 without studying but had no trouble passing the 
> Extra 
> in 1998 with less effort.  Had I waited just a little longer, I 
> wouldn't 
> even have had to suffer throught another code test!
> 
> The tests just aren't technically challenging anymore so one can't 
> refer to 
> them to judge who were are; anybody can join the club these days.  
> The 
> license itself just no longer defines who we are as a group.
> 
> However, I wanted to offer some insights into my experience at 
> purchasing 
> equipment over the web (like that amp for example) instead of 
> ranting on 
> about who we are.
> 
> I've done a little shopping on eBay and elsewhere and have found 
> through 
> experience that no questions are necessary to determine the quality 
> of 
> equipment offered for sale before buying.  I'm sure the same rules 
> can be 
> applied here as well.
> 
> Bob's Rules on Internet Purchasing:
> 
> 1.  If they don't say it works, you can bet it doesn't!
> 
> 2.  If they say they don't know if it works, you can be assured that 
> it 
> doesn't.  Not even a little bit!
> 
> 3.  If they say it worked last time they used it but they don't know 
> if it 
> works now, well, you can bet it doesn't work.  Dah!
> 
> 4.  If they don't specifically state that a picture of the item for 
> sale is 
> the item itself, then you can justly suspicion that its not a 
> picture of the 
> item for sale but instead a picture of a similar item in much better 
> 
> condition.  Sucker!
> 
> 5.  Repair parts for those old rigs are made out of un-obtanium 
> (that's very 
> rare indeed).  You can bet whatever you buy from some dead-beat on 
> the web 
> will need atleast two or three of those parts.  Gee, Time marches 
> on!
> 
> 6.  I forgot this one before I could write it down.  I'm getting 
> older!  
> What's your excuse?
> 
> 7.  Buy only from the original owner.  They may be less likely to do 
> 
> something like break off the lever of that HW-101 CW/SSB lever 
> switch after 
> they sell the CW filter on the side without telling you.  They might 
> still 
> sell the filter but atleast they won't break that unobtanium part.
> 
> 8. Don't buy HW-101s on eBay.  I haven't found one that was worth a 
> damn.
> 
> 9.  Had to delete this one.  You're just not ready for it.
> 
> 10. And finally, my last tip.  Only you can make a difference.  Long 
> live 
> Ham Radio!
> 
> 
> Bob
> WB4FPL
> (since 1968)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >From: "Taras Andrushko" <[email protected]>
> >To: [email protected]
> >Subject: [Heathkit] Seeking Duane Fischer as a dummy load
> >Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:35:08 -0500
> >
> >
> >Hi Everyone!
> >
> >     Duane wanted to know if my SB201 was tested on a dummy load 80 
> - 10 
> >meters.  I wrote him a more descriptive private e-mail a day ago 
> and no 
> >response.  So I asked if he could stop by my house and stick his 
> finger in 
> >the socket in the back of the Heathkit amplifier and use him as a 
> dummy 
> >load.  I would watch his hair go up on each band and determine what 
> the 
> >output is based on how tall his hair stands on his head.  But as 
> usual he 
> >refuses to come over to help me out.  :)
> >
> >                                          Taras
> >
> >
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