[SixClub] AMPLIFIER-RM Italy.

Mon Jan 3 04:59:50 EST 2011

On 1/3/2011 3:49 AM, Howard Bingham wrote:

Again, it all depends

I have a complete Hallicrafters station...SX101, HT-32B, and HT-33B 
(with the ceramic 8295A)
It's a great station to use and I like the simplicity of the controls.

Like computers and operating systems, all but a small percentage of 
those running computers could get along with Win XP, Open Office, or one 
of the LINUX flavors.  Only gamers and power users can even make use of 
all that extra HP.  Rigs, old and new are the same way.  ALTHOUGH, the 
casual user can still get on due to the new technology when the bands 
are jam packed. Of course the casual user may not be that interested in 
trying to get on when the band is packed.

Me? 4 nights ago I was working world wide on 40 with good signals.  3 
nights ago, the band was noisy and long.  I spent close to 15 minutes 
each working with two state side stations to finally be able to call it 
a QSO.
The first station of the night was a G4. Very weak and in the noise, but 
we both stuck with it long enough to make a full QSO. When he signed a 
station in France called with a pretty decent signal and we held a 
fairly long and enjoyable QSO.  That was followed by a station in 
Slovenia calling me with a very good signal. That was followed by two 
stateside stations that were just barely audible, Then came one from 
Northern Germany that was the loudest of the evening.  We talked for a 
while and when he signed I was called by a station out East with a 
reasonable signal as the band was getting shorter.

The point is I would never have made at least 3 of those contacts were 
it not for the advanced technology and I sure would have liked to have 
had the chance to try some of the latest *stuff* under those 
conditions.  So, although a casual DXer and ragchewer, I find a use for 
those new features that let me make contacts I'd never make with the 
boat anchor station. Other nights you'd never be able to tell the 
difference..  .

> And I have long licensed hams that communicate world wide with OLDER
> ICOM and Yaesu radios on an antenna only 25 ft. in air on 10m&  all
I worked Christmas Island on 75 meters with an inverted V only slightly 
higher than that and an old tube rig.
>
> other bands with any of 4 other antennas that were hand me downs, one
> does not need a $ 4,000 radio to communicate ALL MODES when less
> expensive equipment is available&  works,
Welll... there are times when that is true and times when it isn't.    
I've made QSOs using a pair of 6L6s following a 6AG7 oscillator, but I 
prefer my old Icom 756 Pro driving an Emtron DX-2sp through a Palstar 
AT5K tuner.

I just finished up the base for a new gin pole so I can install the rest 
of a 50' 25G that will get a used Force 12 C19XR tribander and hopefully 
a WARC-7 also used.  I'm finishing a second gin pole that will have a 
24' reach so I can install the two 24' long DOM steel tubes into the 
tower.  That will leave the M^2 40M3-125 (used) at 100 feet with the 7L 
C3i 6-meter yagi I've had for about 10 years going up to 115'.
>   just like people who buy a
> Cadillac can not bring it to believe that their top of the line GM
> product has components shared with Chevrolet's cheapest cars..
Any one who knows anything about cars should know that...well that and 
that probably 80% of the parts in that GM car come from other countries.
> I've had Ford products in the past in which the front suspension was
> designed for a FORD Falcon in 1960, yet was used on ALL FORD cars with
> exception of the Lincoln Town Car until well into the 1970's, to spite
> being designed for plain vanilla bias belted black wall tires on the
> cheapest Ford Falcon, yet used on all other Ford automobiles that were
> using more advanced steel belted low profile 70 series tires weighing
> double the weight of what it was designed to handle.. (Reason I found
> out, I had a 1970 Ford Torino GT coupe that went through front ball
> joints one after another&  not until the warranty was up, did I get the
> complete story from a company downtown on Jackson and Bell street that
> specialized in car and truck suspensions..
>
> Guess I should have learned Morse Code at an earlier age,
I learned the code over 50 years ago and peaked at near 40 wpm.
>   I could signal
> with flags used aboard navy vessels while in Boy Scouts,
We just used lights and tone generators.
>   guess I could
> have translated that to CW application..!
>
There's a place for each mode just as there is for the different levels 
of rigs.  The contesters and DXers are likely to go for the superior 
rigs. They are likely to be the only ones to be able to tell the 
difference between them and the less expensive ones.  OTOH it's very 
easy to tell the difference between the receive functions on the 
inexpensive rigs and the higher priced ones.  It's up to the individual 
to decide whether that difference and features are worth the money or 
not.  To me they certainly are. Now as to whether I have, or will have 
it to spend is something else.

73

Roger (K8RI)
> I digress,
>
> 73
>
> Howard Bingham
> KE5APJ
>
> --
>
> On 1/2/2011 8:40 PM, Roger (K8RI) wrote:
>>
>> On 1/2/2011 8:38 PM, Howard Bingham wrote:
>>> My mobile Yaesu works those modes too (FT-857D) and there are others out
>> So does my 897D and Icom 7000 but that's like comparing a VW to a Ferrari
>> Each has its place and does what it was designed for well.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Roger (K8RI)
>>> there..!
>>>
>>> My only problem now is passing my General so I can get on bands the
>>> Yaesu FT-857D covers..
>>>
>>> Have antenna to do most of the General class bands, but have resisted
>>> the temptation to install an antenna that cost more than some high end
>>> dual banders..
>>>
>>> I'm not knocking ICOM, just that there are a half dozen or so other
>>> models in production that can work all modes&    on all bands..
>>>
>>> My next step up would be a Kenwood (Almost bought the Kenwood TS-480SAT
>>> but settled on the Yaesu as I could get more for the buck at the time.).
>>>
>>> 73
>>>
>>> Howard Bingham
>>> KE5APJ
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> On 1/2/2011 5:18 PM, Richard J. Fiero II W5TFW wrote:
>>>> Howard !
>>>>
>>>>      this NEW Icom works ON SSB, CW, AM, FM&     the digital modes,
>>>> thats whats so special about it !
>>>>
>>>>      its kinda like the newest CAR !  its not that YOU NEED it ! its that you
>>>> want it !
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Howard Bingham"<ke5apj at earthlink.net>
>>>> To:<sixclub at mailman.qth.net>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 5:10 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [SixClub] AMPLIFIER-RM Italy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Don't know what the attraction in these high priced ICOM, when there are
>>>>> several Yaesu&     Kenwood's that pretty well fit the bill for much less,
>>>>> with enough change difference to buy an AMP to boot..!
>>>>>
>>>>> This being said, not knowing all the bells&     whistles included in the
>>>>> ICOM 9100..
>>>>>
>>>>> Howard Bingham
>>>>> KE5APJ
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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