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

Thu Oct 3 10:19:36 EDT 2013

I started working on my HF Mobile station just a few days ago by driving
into the garage without taking the antenna off!  I broke one of the
vertical supports inside my Texas Bugcatcher coil.  I just hung it in the
garage while I wonder how to repair it.

Earl
KD5XB

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Michael Tauson <wh7hg.hi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the comments, Bill.  I've had the Super Six & Meteor idea in
> the back of my mind for a while but never had a vehicle in which I could
> implement it.  I'd like to add a VFO since I'm kind of light on crystals at
> the moment however I'm not real likely to find a VFO adequate to the
> purpose
> that's also appropriate to the period before I manage to grind enough
> quartz
> to make me happy.
>
> Ahhh, the lovely whine of a dynamotor winding up ... such a lovely sound.
> 12v dynamotors are a near unobtainium breed otherwise I'd be building a
> power pack around whatever I could lay my hands on.  Watching the
> commutator
> arc can be a fun way to pass some time although I did that with about any
> kind of rotating machinery that had open commutators I could see.  Anyway,
> it would be fun to design a rig around the idea of being dynamotor powered.
>
> Pictures will start when I can figure out how to manage my walker and
> everything else in back so I can handle the whole shebang at once.  Or
> something.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael, K3MXO, A&P 1803851
> "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from
> the
> experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination
> to do so." - Douglas Adams
> http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/NTH/index.aspx
> http://wh7hg.blogspot.com/
> http://kludges-other-blog.blogspot.com
> Hiki Nô!
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mobile-portable-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of WD8ARZ
> Sent: Tuesday, 01 October, 2013 16:01
> To: Mobile-Portable Reflector
> Subject: Re: [Mobile-Portable] Winter Prep, and HF Mobile Freqs?
>
> 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
> > "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from
> the
> > experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent
> disinclination
> > to do so." - Douglas Adams
> > http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/NTH/index.aspx
> > http://wh7hg.blogspot.com/
> > http://kludges-other-blog.blogspot.com
> > Hiki Nô!
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