[Mobile-Portable] Winter Prep, and HF Mobile Freqs?

[WD8ARZ]

What a great read Michael, have enjoyed it very much. Seems like a 'back 
to the future' in a retro way type of feel with this outline of your 
passionate plans. Is there a dynomotor supply in here some where? Have 
missed the blue glow of those rectifier  hi hi

Would very much be interested in seeing pictures of how this works out 
for you, and I bet others here do too.

Keep us informed on your progress and may we can have a qso one of these 
days and hear more about it.

73 from Bill - WD8ARZ

On 10/1/2013 9:22 PM, Michael Tauson wrote:
> Oh, I do know about cold.  I lived on the mainland for 55 years, mostly in
> Pittsburgh but with some time in Toledo as well.  (I was born in Buffalo but
> don't remember much of it since we moved when I was 4.)  Anyway, routine
> vehicle maintenance got extended to include any electronics aboard.  While
> "mobile" for me consisted of finding some nice hilltop to park on and run CW
> for a while it still involved equipment that would find any possible way to
> become an irritant if I let it.  Sooo I didn't.
>
> Side note: Until I moved here, I never owned a rig that even had a mic jack.
> Well, not one that was connected to anything, at least.  Now I have things
> with mic jacks that actually are functional and a dearth of mics except
> carbon ones for military gear, and even that's more for display purposes.
>
> Now, after 13 years since moving here, I have a vehicle into which I can not
> only install a mobile rig between the front seats but can also install a
> small operating table behind the driver's seat for ... hmmm ...
> fixed-portable(?) operation at some of the beach parks.  It's a 1994
> Plymouth Grand Voyager van with the back two seats removed and buckets up
> front.  My choice for the "up front" rigs includes some oldies but goodies,
> one each HW-101, SB-102 and TR-4.  (I'm not sure how I'll fit the Triumph in
> there but I'll give it a good go. <BG>)  All three need work so it'll be a
> while before anything's installed.  I don't yet have a mobile power supply
> and I'm kinda sorta on the hunt for an HP-13 no one wants to slide under one
> of the front seats to keep it out of the way.
>
> Ah, but there's more for up front.  I have a WRL Meteor and a Gonset Super
> Six (actually three of them from which I'll make one operable one) that seem
> so purty together.  Again, both need a bit of help but that's kind of how I
> accumulate things.  They're cheaper when they're not quite at their best.
> Anyway, the plan, such as it is, is to take a 3-6 MC command receiver that's
> already been hacked and completely remove the front end then use that part
> of the chassis as a mounting shelf for the Super Six.  The IF strip and BFO
> will get retuned to 1430 KC and the IF given a wee bit of help in the form
> of a touch of regeneration to help skinny it up a skosh with a few other
> odds and mods to make the whole thing more a amenable to being a receiver.
> I may even have a power supply that will work with it.  Glory be!  All of
> this should fit under the dash over toward the passenger seat which will
> make it amusing to operate but the ancients (snicker) managed so it should
> be doable.
>
> The 'tween the seats rig will got to one of two Hustlers  with the second as
> of yet uncommitted.  The 60s AM/CW/DSB rig will go to an appropriate
> antenna, a Webster Bandspanner.  In both cases, I'll have to get out to
> change bands so I'll probably stick to a single band for each, at least for
> a while.
>
> What goes on the operating table behind the driver's seat?  That's for
> another time and probably another list.  <EG>
>
> Best regards,
>   
> Michael, K3MXO, A&P 1803851
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