[JMS]

[Gary Carter]

Hi Tim!

No interest in the tuner. I have a Dentron MT-2000A that's doing just 
fine for me right now, but thanks for the offer!

I'm not sure that the BC-610 coils can be used in the Millen amp or not, 
since the amp needs the swinging link. The only coil I'm in need of 
right now is the grid coil for the amp for 15 meters (Millen p/n 43015) 
but it's not an absolute must. I would eventually like to track down the 
Millen 80 meter tank coil for the amp (Millen p/n 42080), but I have a 
mint NOS B&W TVL 80 that will serve the purpose in the meantime.

Spoke with Bob Raide, W2ZM on 40 meter AM last weekend and he said he 
will be at the conference this year on Wednesday for a few hours and on 
Friday for the ham radio forum and the banquet that night. Hooray! He 
said Mike might be able to come with him at those times as well.

Beer indeed! I'm also planning on bringing another bottle of high grade 
scotch for the W1GIG "Shaken, Not Stirred" gathering at whatever 
mysterious hotel room you guys end up in. Last year I brought that 
Macallan 10 year old "Cask Strength" scotch, which tended to have a bite 
to it that isn't a normal feature of their flagship line of scotch (but 
a helluva higher alchohol content!). This year I'll be sure to bring a 
bottle of their regular 12 year old scotch that is aged in oak casks 
that had previously had fine sherry stored in them. It is by far the 
best 12 year old scotch in the world. (I wish I could afford to bring a 
bottle of their 18 year. Ye gods, what a scotch!) Whiskey magazine said 
the Macallan pulled their 12 and 18 year old scotches from competition 
because they constantly kept on winning every year!

I also received an email from Don Buska, N9OO yesterday, and he said he 
will be returning to the conference this year as well! More good news, 
after an abscence of three years my XYL, Laura will have the vacation 
time to come with me to Rochester. Yep,. it's going to be a good one 
this year!

Look forward to seeing you at the conference next month! (Please remind 
me of the name and callsign of your partner in crime that accompanies 
you every year. As you know my memory is like a well worn sieve.)

73, Gary - WA4IAM

P.S. Did I send you one of my newly printed QSL cards? If not, I know 
there is a QSO in the log that I can QSL you for. Please let me know.

w1gig at att.net wrote:

>Hi Gary:
>
>Hope to see you at AWA and have a beer with you and Mike Raide HI HI.  More to the point, is the Millen Amp. coil same as or similar to the BC-610 coils???   I have a bunch of the latter made by B & W.  They have a rotating link inside the coil instead of the swing link.  I know I have 40 M coils and I think I have 80 and maybe higher.  I could bring one to AWA if you are interested.
>
>Also do you you have any interest in the 92200 Tenna Tuna?  Could bring that as well.
>
>C U on AM
>
>Tim
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>-------------- Original message from Gary Carter <gcarter01 at triad.rr.com>: -------------- 
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>>Don, 
>>
>>Sounds like a great hamfest, and congrats on picking up the coils! I'm 
>>also glad you picked up that amp from Bob. I hope to hear you on soon 
>>with the big Millen station. I'm good to go coil-wise here with a set 
>>for 80, 40, 20 and 10 meters (all full Millen coil sets except for 80). 
>>
>>I meant to get started on my amp setup this past winter, but between 
>>work and dozens of other projects I just didn't get to it. Unfortunately 
>>it's going to have to take a back seat a little longer as another 
>>project is occupying the bench. I wasn't planning on putting my 1930s 
>>station together for another year or two but I've had to move the 
>>schedule up. This December the Forsyth Amateur Radio Club in 
>>Winston-Salem, NC is celebrating their 75th anniversary with a special 
>>event station. There will be a mod rig for sideband and one of the club 
>>members is bringing in his Viking II transmitter and Hammarlund receiver 
>>for the '50s AM station. I'm planning on providing the '30s CW station 
>>with that National NC-101X receiver I got last year at the AWA 
>>conference and I'm planning on building a 50 watt transmitter out of the 
>>November 1938 issue of QST that uses a pair of 6L6s driving a single 
>>809. I'm starting on the NC-101X this week and have already received 
>>valueble email support on it from Bill Fizette, Jim Hanlon and Greg Gore. 
>>
>>When I do finally get around to getting my Millen 90881 amp up and 
>>running I plan on following your line of thinking and have the 90801 
>>drive the amp. Like you, I want to be able to switch it in and out when 
>>I like. 
>>
>>Looks like we may have another Millen station on AM in the near future 
>>since John, K5MO finally managed to acquire a 90801 transmitter and is 
>>now looking for one of the Millen HV power supplies to go with it (way 
>>to go John!!). Heck, at this rate there may be almost as many Millen 
>>stations listed as there will be Johnson transmitters in next year's AWA 
>>AM QSO Party! 
>>
>>I'm still fairly active here on 40 meter AM with my 90801. Over the past 
>>week or so I've been running it crystal controlled to give the Millen 
>>90711 VFO a break and also avoid introducing any more heat than 
>>necessary into the basement shack, hi hi. There's nothing like running a 
>>boatanchor station during the summer in hot, muggy North Carolina. 
>>
>>73 to all, Gary - WA4IAM 
>>
>>
>>
>>Don Buska wrote: 
>>
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>>>Hey all, 
>>>
>>>If your on the glowbugs reflector you might have seen Bob's (W9RAN) 
>>>report on the South Milwaukee swapfest this past Saturday. I borrow a 
>>>bit of the text from Bob's email (forgive me Bob): 
>>>
>>>"If you're in the mood for one more vicarious hamfest, let me tell you 
>>>about the South Milwaukee 'fest at Oak Creek WI. It's a Saturday 
>>>affair, which mandates the traditional Wisconsin fish fry the night 
>>>before, as those like me who don't live in town learned long ago if you 
>>>aren't there at the crack of dawn (this year about 5:15AM) you'll miss 
>>>the bargains. (Like the small Johnson Matchbox (missing SWR pickup 
>>>unit) for $15)." 
>>>
>>>"On the other hand I'm sure there would have been many takers for the 
>>>Millen 90902 o'scope I found for $25, these are seldom seen and well, 
>>>anything Millen goes quickly." 
>>>
>>>It's always great to see fellow JMS'ers grab the Millen finds. Having 
>>>just recently purchased a 90881 amplifier from another JMS Bob (W0YVA) I 
>>>was in need of some of the required items to complete the unit. On my 
>>>list were two 812A tubes and the high power plugin coils. I was able to 
>>>obtain probably the only two 812A's at the fest. From two different 
>>>sources. However by 11AM and I had pretty much given up finding the 
>>>500W coils for the 90881. As I was also selling, I wasn't able to 
>>>travel the rows-and-rows of cars as many times as I'd normally do. So 
>>>after packing up my unsold items, actually sold most of the stuff I'd 
>>>brought, I made my last round. I came across a nice looking Ten-Tec 
>>>Argonaut 509 transceiver with original box. That was interesting, but 
>>>since I already had two 509's at home I didn't ask the price (probably 
>>>should have). However, in another Ten-Tec box was a Argonaut matching 
>>>210 power supply and a pretty rare Ten-Tec Signalizer S-30 (Audio CW 
>>>Filter/AMP/Speaker). I bought those as I had no matching accessories 
>>>for my current 509's. I probably should have asked how much the 509 was 
>>>too, considering the great price I got on the other items. The 
>>>following day the wife and I went to an antique fleamarket at Graylake 
>>>IL and I found one of those neat little Electro-Voice mics that were 
>>>identical to the Ten-Tec 214's. Cost me $5 and it was the only piece of 
>>>radio equipment worth buying at Grayslake. If you've been following the 
>>>ham news lately you'd have seen that one of the Ten-Tec founders Albert 
>>>R. Kahn recently past away. Al was also a co-founder of Electro-Voice. 
>>>Thus the relabeled EV mics were found on early Ten-Tec stuff. 
>>>
>>>Anyhoot, back to Millen! After taking the Ten-Tec stuff back to the van 
>>>and continuing on my last swipe of the fest I came across a box of B&W 
>>>high power coils in a box under a table. The strange thing is this 
>>>seller was in the row of cars right behind me all day. The high power 
>>>B&W coils are direct replacements for the Millen 500W jobs. The box had 
>>>an 80M, 40M and 20M coil each with matching swing links. Just what I 
>>>was looking for! The seller had $5 each on the box, but considering 
>>>people were already packing up, the fest is going strong at 6AM, my 
>>>offer of $5 for the box was accepted. So now I have all the inside 
>>>parts needed to get the 90881 running. I have enough HV parts in the 
>>>basement to build the required power supply. 
>>>
>>>A question to those of you who have 90881 amps. Are you going to run it 
>>>as class B or AB driven by the Millen transmitter (modulated) or will 
>>>you be modulating it under class C? W0YVA provided me with a manual for 
>>>the 90881 and I see they have a page dedicated to using the 90831 
>>>modulator to directly modulate the 90881 to around 40-50% modulation. 
>>>My initial plan was to use the amp driven by the 90801 in class AB or B. 
>>>The 90831 would modulate the transmitter as in my current setup. I 
>>>figure this way I'd easily be able to remove or insert the amp 
>>>on-the-fly. Your suggestions and ideas are greatly appreciated. 
>>>
>>>73 
>>>
>>>Don N9OO 
>>>
>>>P.S. I had the wife (W9MSC), father inlaw (N4GQQ) and mother inlaw 
>>>along at the swapfest. So it was a little easier getting away from my 
>>>table than if I was alone. The wife loves this fest and the inlaws were 
>>>very happy to find a nice laptop computer for their camper journeys and 
>>>a digital camera. Funny note on the camera. My wife's dad had 
>>>misplaced the USB cable that connected their existing camera to the 
>>>computer. He figured he'd find one at the fest for much less than the 
>>>$30+ at the local stores. Well he ended up getting the exact same 
>>>camera, with a docking station, which he didn't have before, and all 
>>>needed cables for $50. So all my team went away happy from this fest. 
>>>
>>>P.S.S. Another bit of W9RAN orignal message that I agree with 100% 
>>>after attending this fest for the past 30 years: "Oak Creek has a pretty 
>>>high ratio of actual radio stuff to other stuff, but always seems to 
>>>have a lot of variety, with everything from truckloads of military gear 
>>>to complete broadcast studios turning up in years past. This years 
>>>theme seems to have been "test equipment" with a wide range of service 
>>>grade stuff and some nicer pro gear as well." 
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