[Heathkit] Re: Please Be Advised, HCI Has Ended

[kiyoinc at attglobal.net]

Jim wrote:

 > Gee, this is getting to be fun!!!!

Yeah, pretty wacky stuff.   Kinda like tuning across 80 meters in the 
evening.

I only hope I manage to escape the ailment of self-righteousness and 
self-importance that seems to come with old age.   Maybe the aches and 
pains drives guys to natter.  Maybe it's frustration.

The "narrow perspective" that we get as our brains ossify, that prevents 
folk from seeing their logical inconsistencies.

Since I'll be 60 this year, I'm well on my way to haranguing at the full 
legal limit. Pounding the table with my fist, "dag-nabbit!  Kids these 
days.  Why, when I got my license, we knew how to keep an orderly email 
list."

Wait-wait, that was 1963 and we didn't have email.

There're real problems with banning people from an email list.  As 
several have pointed out,

1) Who decides?  You?  Me?  Him?  Them?

2) What level of management do you set?   Approve-all-posts? White-list? 
   3-strikes and you're out?

3) If you manage tight, can you afford the delay and the manpower overhead?

4) Build a database?  Who pays for that boondoggle?

FYI, I manage two large mailing lists (total 6,500 members) and several 
small ones.  I have some experience with this.

What seems to work is to run the lists wide-open, let people 
self-subscribe.   Run the lists hands off.

About once a week, some problem shows up,  that's easy to purge.   About 
once a month or two, a legit list member has a bad day and goes "rogue". 
  Usually an email will calm them down.

If not, it's a single click to drop them.

Every two weeks, I send a list of rules through the lists, "Please stay 
on topic, bla-bla-blah.  Here's how you unsubscribe.  Please, please, 
clip your responses."

Here's some Heathkit content.

I was really interested in the SB-101/HW-101 info.  I think these are 
good rigs.  I've been, er, hoarding Heathkits and have filled up a 
shelving unit with alley-cat radios.  You know the type, bedraggled, 
tattered, but could be proud and loud with a little work.

I have needs-work SB-101/102's and a nice looking SB-104A.

I'd like to get the SB-104A working next and on the air.  It has the 
16.667 problem in the digital display.  From the reports on the web, 
that's a single, specific, regulator IC.

I have the aftermarket LED conversion kit for it too but I plan to run 
it with the display tubes until they die.

I built a mini-DX-60 to use  with an SB-303 as a QRP radio.  The 
mini-DX-60 is about 1/4 scale and has a PIXIE2 transmitter half in it. 
It works fine.

The next step for the mini-DX-60 is the addition of TR switching.  I got 
some IC-size relays to mute the SB-303 and switch the antenna.

There's enough room in the mini-DX-60 case for a keyer and maybe the 
talking-PIXIE2 AM modulator.

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