[SignalOne] SignalOne Digest, Vol 83, Issue 1
kg9hfrank at gmail.com
kg9hfrank at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 17:46:07 EST 2016
Hi Steve, welcome to the group.
I have had my Signal One now for about 6 years and love to listen to it mostly in the Winter. Seems that is the only time to rest in front of a radio. hi hi.
Good luck in your Signal One venture.
-73- Frank KG9H
Mine is fully loaded and I have the
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> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 11:44:16 -0700
> From: Fred Rosenthal <ametronav at gmail.com>
> To: Fred <fred at k5og.com>, <signalone at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [SignalOne] Greetings from K5OG - Fred
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> I have a CX11 and am looking for the Signal One External Speaker (prefer the
> one for the CX11 but would take CX7 if that is what is available).
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>> From: Fred <fred at k5og.com>
>> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:01:41 -0500
>> To: <signalone at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: [SignalOne] Greetings from K5OG - Fred
>>
>>
>>
>> This list is for discussions regarding collecting, repair, use and sale of
>> Signal/One radios and accessories.
>>
>> Documentation on Signal/One radios can be found at http://www.hamanuals.com
>> and several other sites on the Web.
>>
>> .
>> Hello Signal One collectors!
>> Sorry about the long delay in updating the Signal One Registry.
>> Sometimes life gets in the way of our hobbies and I've been having email
>> and ISP problems as well. Finally back up! And had to go skiing a few
>> times. HI HI
>> For numerous reasons I have been "out of the picture" for a while now.
>> Nothing particularly bad, just things interfering with amateur radio.
>>
>> I have actually been back on the bench working on a Signal One I've had
>> for a very long time. The owner (who I will contact again this week)
>> probably thinks I stole his radio. :-)) And I've got all updates I have
>> added to the Registry.
>>
>> Some milestones have been reached. There are now 315 radios in the
>> Registry and 200 CX7s. And sadly there have been several S1 owners who
>> are now SK.
>>
>> If I failed to answer an email you sent me please contact me again. I
>> promise I will answer.
>>
>> And please check the Registry for any updates or corrections you might
>> have. I am waiting on an email from another collector with some updates.
>>
>> It's great to be back at it and I look forward to hearing from my
>> fellow collectors and getting ALL of my Signal Ones totally repaired.
>>
>> 73 de
>> Fred
>> K5OG
>>
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> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 22:58:03 -0500
> From: k8ki/Bob <k8ki at comcast.net>
> To: signalone at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [SignalOne] SignalOne Digest, Vol 82, Issue 1
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> My thanks to Mr Kipton Moravec for posting the obituary of Dr Gene
> Chenette to this list. I knew Gene while I was a student at the Univ of
> Florida, where he was an EE professor for many years. I was his last
> graduate student before he retired in 1993.
>
> It became immediately obvious to me that Gene was a giant of a man when
> it came to radio design. He impressed me so much that I stayed in
> contact with him over the years. How many of us had teachers that we
> ever contacted after graduation? Gene was one of those rare ones. I
> spoke with him several times in December, the last time being the
> Thursday before his passing. I received a Christmas card from him the
> day before I read his obituary. A few weeks earlier he had entered the
> CQWW CW contest with his brand new Flex 6300, and was so proud.
>
> Gene gave me his personal CX7 many years ago. It has been on Fred's
> registry for a while (#00162). You can see a photo of it in the
> background on my QRZ.com page (under k8ki). It works.
>
> I have had many conversations with Gene regarding his work at ECI on the
> Signal One. I have saved them all, along with all the details. Gene only
> claimed to have done system-level work on the CX7, a monumental
> achievement (broadband tuning, dual-VFO sub-receiver, solid state,
> MOSFETs, 7400 logic chips) considering that the design started in 1968.
> But Gene was really good at component-level design, and I never
> understood why he didn't take credit there. Gene also introduced me to
> Harold Johnson, W4ZCB, a terrific engineer who managed the CX7
> production, and later introduced hipersil transformers to Dick Ehrhorn's
> line of Alpha amplifiers.
>
> The CX7 was far ahead of its time; too far actually. It had the first
> MOSFETs ever produced, but they failed easily and varied widely in
> performance. I didn't know 7400 logic chips were available in 1969,
> until I had to fix the automatic keyer - but who else had an onboard
> keyer in 1969? I didn't understand the dual VFOs at first. It hit me
> when I bought an Orion, which was the very next rig to have two full
> VFOs and a sub-receiver - 34 years later. How about the ceramic triode
> amplifier tube - even today's linear amps don't all have ceramic output
> tubes. These ideas, and many others, found their way into the CX7 by way
> of Gene Chenette.
>
> I'll miss Gene, and treasure CX7/00162.
>
> I might also ask Fred if he might consider sorting the CX7 units in the
> registry separately from the A and B units. The original CX7 was built
> by ECI in 1969 and had the fingerprints of Dick Ehrhorn, Gene Chenette,
> and Harold Johnson on them. The A and B units were built elsewhere
> without their involvement. In my mind, the CX7 was the real jewel.
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> Bob DePierre, k8ki
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>> 1. FS: MILSPEC 1030CI (Icom 781 Conversion) (W4NJ)
>> 2. Ham Operator in Porto/Portugal (Ulrich Graf)
>> 3. SK Eugene R. Chenette, Ph.D N5YJ (Kipton Moravec)
>> 4. CW Filter/ Advice on cap replacement (Ka9p--- via SignalOne)
>> 5. Greetings from K5OG - Fred (Fred)
>> 6. Re: Greetings from K5OG - Fred (Fred Rosenthal)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 08:23:25 -0400
>> From: W4NJ <w4nj at tampabay.rr.com>
>> To: signalone at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: [SignalOne] FS: MILSPEC 1030CI (Icom 781 Conversion)
>> Message-ID: <6D8F9AD4-F8BC-47FE-BE3C-E7FA0F2209AE at tampabay.rr.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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>> Hi Group,
>>
>> Well, I thought my XYL would be composing this email after I became a SK many years from now but no, alas, I am saving her the chore.
>>
>> I am selling my MEGA-RARE Signal One MS1030C Icom IC-781 Conversion Serial #0111579 and offering it here to the group before I put it on eBay. PICS, etc may be found here. I have the original manual and the original S/O shipping box along with the radio's inner support foam cradles.
>>
>> It is in as near new physical condition as can be. Non-smokimng shack. Electrically, the only caveat I have is that the Notch Micro-Switch is intermittent so I will declare that it is non-functional and call it full disclose. Everything else works as it should. It can be replaced with the matching button if someone wishes to find one off a donor IC-781.
>>
>> Asking $15,000 plus a little help on the shipping. Will ship Internationally. Payment must be by wire-transfer. Pick-up is encouraged. No PayPal. Sorry! Guarnteed to not be DOA but all sales are final so please check with your XYL or lie about what you paid for it.
>>
>> Please email me if you have any questions.
>>
>> Vy 73, Cliff - W4NJ - From near The House of The Mouse - Disneyworld,
>> Florida
>>
>> Visit my Shack: http://collins-21.com/w4nj/w4nj_my_shack.html
>>
>> SHARE THE FUN: JOIN THE COLLINS COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION TODAY !
>> http://www.collinsradio.org/membership/
>>
>> NETS: Tues & Thur: 3.805 MHz-2000 Central + Fri: 3.895 MHz-2000 Pacific
>> SUNDAYS: 14.263 MHz-2000 UTC + AM Net: 29.050 MHz-1200 Central
>> 1st Wednesday AM Net 3.880 MHz-2000 local (ET, CT, MT, PT)
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 14:32:56 +0100
>> From: Ulrich Graf <dk4sx.ug at googlemail.com>
>> To: "Signal/One List" <signalone at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: [SignalOne] Ham Operator in Porto/Portugal
>> Message-ID:
>> <CAMGfKfxpMvzaYmag7t11ijfqtQy_6dwiLfHk6M8WJsPf6t=deQ at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
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>> Hello Signal/One friends,
>>
>> some time ago I had several very nice and informative contacts with a ham
>> friend in Portugal/Porto. Unfortunately I lost his email address. Does
>> anybody eventually know amateur operators in Porto I could contact? The
>> mentioned ham used a Signal/One Milspec 1030 and we were discussing some
>> technical problems.
>>
>> Vy 73, Uli, DK4SX
>>
>>
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:09:45 -0600
>> From: Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com>
>> To: Signal/One List <signalone at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: [SignalOne] SK Eugene R. Chenette, Ph.D N5YJ
>> Message-ID: <548DD269.8050401 at kdream.com>
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>> Thought this may be of interest to this group. Gene was a member of the
>> Plano Amateur Radio Klub. I knew him and liked him, but I did not know
>> his connection to Signal One until his obituary. The subject never came up.
>>
>>
>>
>> Eugene R. Chenette, Ph.D
>> 1928-07-14 2014-12-07
>>
>> Dr. Eugene Richard Chenette of Allen, Texas died peacefully early
>> Sunday, December 7, 2014 at the Medical Center of McKinney surrounded by
>> loving family; his wife Helen, his daughter Karen and his "little
>> sister" Mary Dohlman. He is survived by the love of his life, his wife
>> of 63 years, 9 months, and 4 days, Helen Chenette, their daughter Karen
>> Chenette, and four grandchildren, Gavin Wright of Gainesville Florida,
>> Roy Schmidt of Colorado Springs Colorado, Luke and Alexandra Chenette of
>> Plano, Texas, his brother Louis Chenette (Emily) of Indianapolis
>> Indiana, his 'sisters' Mary Dohlman, Nancy Smith (Gary) and their Mom
>> (his aunt Gertrude Ontjes) and a huge list of very loved nephews,
>> nieces, cousins, 2nd cousins, first cousins once removed, etc. He is
>> preceded in death by his daughter Maria Chenette, his sister Louise
>> Bogart (Howard), his mother Freda Chestnut and father Eugene D. Chenette.
>>
>> He was born in Waverly, Iowa on July 14, 1928 to Eugene Dow Chenette and
>> Freda Ontjes Chenette. He enjoyed his childhood in Charles City, Iowa.
>> He graduated from Nashua, Iowa High School in 1946 and then attended
>> Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. He taught school in Stillwater,
>> Minnesota where he, after being properly vetted by her uncle Lyman
>> Kleinfelter and her mother Femicha, married Helen Marie Anderson. He
>> entered the US Air Force and was on active duty for four years during
>> the Korean conflict. On leaving the Air Force, he entered the University
>> of Minnesota where he completed Bachelor, Master and Ph.D degrees in
>> electrical engineering. He taught electrical engineering for a time at
>> the University of Minnesota, and was consultant to firms like Bell Labs,
>> (etc.) then joined the Engineering faculty at the University of Florida
>> in Gainesville where he became a Professor then Department Chair of the
>> Department of Electrical Engineering and Assoc. Dean of the College of
>> Engineering. He also spent a couple of years at National Science
>> Foundation.
>>
>> In 1990, they moved to Niceville Florida / Eglin Air Force Base to teach
>> in the University of Florida graduate engineering programs and where his
>> research with Donald Snyder led to innovations in super high-speed
>> photography and holography. They moved to Plano in 2001 to be closer to
>> their new grandchildren, Luke and Alexandra. His Ph.D. dissertation was
>> on noise in junction transistors, an important contribution to
>> understanding the physics of semiconductors.
>>
>> He was a pioneer, leader and innovator in the emerging field of
>> transistors, integrated circuits and digital devices. He earned his
>> first "ham" radio license in 1948 and avidly pursued this hobby for more
>> than 65 years, most recently forming the Aspen Ham Shack with his ham
>> friends.
>>
>> In 1969, he and Dick Ehrhorn became friends and designed, manufactured
>> and marketed the SIGNAL-ONE, a new "state of the art" multi-band
>> transceiver and are considered by many to be the finest American made
>> communications transceiver ever built.
>>
>> In the past few months he has excitedly mastered his new Flex Radio and
>> related software. He was active in Kiwanis in Gainesville Florida,
>> Niceville, Florida and the Dallas, Texas area. He loved the fellowship
>> and the service and outreach and its mission of improving the world one
>> child and one community at a time. He loved reaching out to young people
>> and helping them learn; often stopping them on the street or while out
>> with his family to dinner and teaching them about proper shoe knots. He
>> was always very active in his church communities, improving them one or
>> sometimes two at a time. In Gainesville he ran the radio broadcast and
>> sound system for the Sunday services, and in Niceville and Plano he and
>> Helen were lay Eucharistic ministers. Sensing a need, they founded Prime
>> Timers at Christ Church Plano.
>>
>> The family will receive friends at a visitation and viewing at Allen
>> Family Funeral Options in Plano on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 from
>> 6:00 ??? 8:00 p.m. Funeral services will be at Christ Church Plano, 4550
>> Legacy Dr., Plano, Texas 75074 on Thursday December 11, 2014 at
>> 11:30a.m. Committal will be at Dallas - Ft. Worth National Cemetery on
>> December 17, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers donations may be made
>> to the Retina Foundation of the Southwest http://retinafoundation.org/
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 18:25:07 -0500
>> From: Ka9p--- via SignalOne <signalone at mailman.qth.net>
>> To: signalone at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: [SignalOne] CW Filter/ Advice on cap replacement
>> Message-ID: <99185.5ecf4f61.41d73153 at aol.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>>
>> Greetings to the group if anyone is still around and Happy New Year.
>>
>> Couple of questions.
>>
>> 1) Anyone have a cw filter for sale, or a source, perhaps, or have made a
>> ladder filter? I would buy a parts radio to get one, if available.
>>
>> 2) My radio has bad hum on receive, note appears to be pure DC on transmit
>> - is there possibly one or two likely cap suspects I could change without
>> doing an entire recap - which I will eventually do, but would like to be
>> able to listen comfortably.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Scott
>>
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>> Message: 5
>> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:01:41 -0500
>> From: Fred <fred at k5og.com>
>> To: signalone at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: [SignalOne] Greetings from K5OG - Fred
>> Message-ID: <551046F5.7030201 at k5og.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>> Hello Signal One collectors!
>> Sorry about the long delay in updating the Signal One Registry.
>> Sometimes life gets in the way of our hobbies and I've been having email
>> and ISP problems as well. Finally back up! And had to go skiing a few
>> times. HI HI
>> For numerous reasons I have been "out of the picture" for a while now.
>> Nothing particularly bad, just things interfering with amateur radio.
>>
>> I have actually been back on the bench working on a Signal One I've had
>> for a very long time. The owner (who I will contact again this week)
>> probably thinks I stole his radio. :-)) And I've got all updates I have
>> added to the Registry.
>>
>> Some milestones have been reached. There are now 315 radios in the
>> Registry and 200 CX7s. And sadly there have been several S1 owners who
>> are now SK.
>>
>> If I failed to answer an email you sent me please contact me again. I
>> promise I will answer.
>>
>> And please check the Registry for any updates or corrections you might
>> have. I am waiting on an email from another collector with some updates.
>>
>> It's great to be back at it and I look forward to hearing from my
>> fellow collectors and getting ALL of my Signal Ones totally repaired.
>>
>> 73 de
>> Fred
>> K5OG
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Message: 6
>> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 11:07:53 -0700
>> From: Fred Rosenthal <ametronav at gmail.com>
>> To: Fred <fred at k5og.com>, <signalone at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: Re: [SignalOne] Greetings from K5OG - Fred
>> Message-ID: <D135A489.15BFEE%ametronav at gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>>
>> Hi Fred,
>>
>> I have one segment of the Red digit that flickers every few weeks. Not sure
>> if it's the LED display or something that is driving it. Also, not all my
>> yellow digits have the same exact color.
>>
>> I have a CX11. Do you think I should just replace the red and three yellow?
>> How hard is it to get into the radio and replace the digits? And what is the
>> cost?
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>> --
>>
>> Thank You for Considering Ametron for your Pro-Audio/Video Sales & Rental
>> needs.
>>
>> FRED ROSENTHAL
>> AMETRON
>> 1546 NORTH ARGYLE AVENUE
>> HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028
>> TEL: 323-466-4321 FAX: 323-871-0127
>> WEB: www.ametron.com E-MAIL: info at ametron.com
>>
>>
>>> From: Fred <fred at k5og.com>
>>> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:01:41 -0500
>>> To: <signalone at mailman.qth.net>
>>> Subject: [SignalOne] Greetings from K5OG - Fred
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This list is for discussions regarding collecting, repair, use and sale of
>>> Signal/One radios and accessories.
>>>
>>> Documentation on Signal/One radios can be found at http://www.hamanuals.com
>>> and several other sites on the Web.
>>>
>>> .
>>> Hello Signal One collectors!
>>> Sorry about the long delay in updating the Signal One Registry.
>>> Sometimes life gets in the way of our hobbies and I've been having email
>>> and ISP problems as well. Finally back up! And had to go skiing a few
>>> times. HI HI
>>> For numerous reasons I have been "out of the picture" for a while now.
>>> Nothing particularly bad, just things interfering with amateur radio.
>>>
>>> I have actually been back on the bench working on a Signal One I've had
>>> for a very long time. The owner (who I will contact again this week)
>>> probably thinks I stole his radio. :-)) And I've got all updates I have
>>> added to the Registry.
>>>
>>> Some milestones have been reached. There are now 315 radios in the
>>> Registry and 200 CX7s. And sadly there have been several S1 owners who
>>> are now SK.
>>>
>>> If I failed to answer an email you sent me please contact me again. I
>>> promise I will answer.
>>>
>>> And please check the Registry for any updates or corrections you might
>>> have. I am waiting on an email from another collector with some updates.
>>>
>>> It's great to be back at it and I look forward to hearing from my
>>> fellow collectors and getting ALL of my Signal Ones totally repaired.
>>>
>>> 73 de
>>> Fred
>>> K5OG
>>>
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