Hi All,

Passed the Basic exam (with honours) Monday and got my call sign yesterday! Very excited, have wanted to do this for a few decades now. Only have an HT at the moment but I've started saving for an HF rig.

73
Doug
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Re: New Ham
By: Doug Mccomber to All on Wed Jun 03 2015 01:12 pm

Hi All,

Passed the Basic exam (with honours) Monday and got my call sign yesterday! Very excited, have wanted to do this for a few decades now. Only have an HT at the moment but I've started saving for an HF rig.

73
Doug
VE1FAL

Cool! Welcome!

73 de WX6YYZ

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Hi All,

Passed the Basic exam (with honours) Monday and got my call sign
yesterday!

Congratulations, that was fast. IC says it normally takes up to 4 weeks.

Very excited, have wanted to do this for a few decades now. Only have
an HT at
the moment but I've started saving for an HF rig.

Interested in a Yaesu FT-890? If so, netmail me.

73
Doug
VE1FAL

VE1 in VE3 country?






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Re: New Ham
By: Bob Seaborn to Doug Mccomber on Wed Jun 03 2015 14:51:00

VE1 in VE3 country?

He is in Kingston, but not Ontario <G>
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Re: New Ham
By: Bob Seaborn to Doug Mccomber on Wed Jun 03 2015 14:51:00

VE1 in VE3 country?

He is in Kingston, but not Ontario <G>

Ahhh..


btw, Joe, by chance are you coming out here for the hamfest and RAC annual meeting early next month?





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Bob Seaborn wrote to Doug Mccomber <=-

Congratulations, that was fast. IC says it normally takes up to 4
weeks.

It is all online now. The examiner has an online account, uploads the
test results and gets a confirmation number. I then log in to my IC
account and input that number, choose a call sign and done, paper copy
to follow.

VE1 in VE3 country?

Nope. I'm in Kingston, NS not ON. I use Joe's BBS because it is good
and reliable. :)


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Joe Delahaye wrote to Doug Mccomber <=-

Congrats Doug.

de VE3JFD

Thanks Joe, been a long time coming.

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Allen Scofield wrote to Doug Mccomber <=-

Congrats Doug! When you get HF capabilities, we can set up a schedule
on the air :)

Thanks Allen. Yeah, that'd be fun. There's quite a few people I'm going
to have to try to reach when I'm on HF. But that's the fun of it!

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Andy Ball wrote to Doug Mccomber <=-

Well done Doug! Are there modes, bands or aspects of the hobby that interest you most?

As I said before, HF is down the road, but I am actively saving so I will
get there. When I do I'll be putting up a dipole and will probably focus
on 20m. While I will be doing voice I don't think I'll be a contester.
I'm also interested in digital modes as I have been receiving them with an
Icom R71 for a few years now. Mostly PSK31 and some RTTY. Probably get a Funcube SDR too.

On 2m I have the new Yaesu FT1DR. I chose that for its built in GPS and
APRS. Been playing around with that.

In the meantime I belong to a local club and will get on HF there when I can.

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Holger Granholm wrote to Doug McComber <=-

Welcome to the gang!

Thanks Holger! Should have been here 30 years ago, but I finally made it!

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Paul Hayton wrote to Doug Mccomber <=-

Congratulations and welcome to thr HAM family.

Thanks Paul.

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Ed Vance wrote to Doug Mccomber <=-

Howdy! Doug,

WONDERFUL!!!!!!

There are many, many things Amateur Radio Operators are interested in.
I won't even try to begin a list, all I can say is "HAVE FUN!".

W9ODR hasn't been on the air for several years but I still like reading
on the BBS what's going on.
73

Thanks Ed. Field Day is coming up, I'm sure there'll be a GOTA station
near you. Might be fun to check out!

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06-07-15 17:07 Doug Mccomber wrote to Ed Vance about Re: New Ham

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Ed Vance wrote to Doug Mccomber <=-

Howdy! Doug,

W9ODR hasn't been on the air for several years but I still like reading
on the BBS what's going on.
73

Thanks Ed. Field Day is coming up, I'm sure there'll be a GOTA
station near you. Might be fun to check out!

GOTA - Get On The Air.

I visited a Clubs Field Day site a year or two ago but didn't ask to
operate since I hadn't joined the club.

I don't know the proper name for it, but several radios being used had
a Panadaptor display built in the front panel.

I always wondered when that tuning accessory would be built-in to a
radio.

The first Panadaptor I saw used a CRT Tube, those new radios displayed
it on a LCD (I think that is the technology they used).

73

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In a message dated 06-07-15, Doug Mccomber said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Doug,

Welcome to the gang!

Thanks Holger! Should have been here 30 years ago, but I finally
made it!

Yeah, those were the times when we still built our own gear instead of
as now being appliance operators, hi.

CU L8ER, Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

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06-10-15 09:03 Holger Granholm wrote to Doug McComber about Re: New Ham

@MSGID: <55796582.840.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>
In a message dated 06-07-15, Doug Mccomber said to Holger
Granholm:

Howdy! Holger and Doug,

Hi Doug,

Welcome to the gang!

Thanks Holger! Should have been here 30 years ago, but I finally
made it!

Yeah, those were the times when we still built our own gear
instead of as now being appliance operators, hi.

I built my DX-40 kit over 50 years ago.

I know that isn't the same as Home Brew Transmitters the earlier Hams
built, but it was a start for me in kit building.

I built lots of Heathkit and Knightkit gear and a few things I found in
Amateur Radio magazine articles also.

73


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In a message dated 06-12-15, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Ed,

Yeah, those were the times when we still built our own gear
instead of as now being appliance operators, hi.

I built my DX-40 kit over 50 years ago.

I built lots of Heathkit and Knightkit gear and a few things I found
in Amateur Radio magazine articles also.

I have built a lot of Heathkit gear for both my ham shack as well as for
my radio/TV service shop. Some of the ham gear are still in use, others
are shelved for possible later use.

My first build however was a 6F6+807 xtal controlled transmitter built
on a discarded BC-radio chassis. The next one was a fourteen tube double conversion ham-band receiver.

CU L8ER,

Holger

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In a message dated 06-18-15, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

GM Ed,

I built my DX-40 kit over 50 years ago.

My first build however was a 6F6+807 xtal controlled
transmitter

That was in 1951.
After having been released from the obligatory military duty 1952 I
bought a homebuilt transmitter rack containing an 807 PA & AM modulator.

Since the amplitude modulated transmissions caused BCI I built a NBFM modulator.

The next project was the 14-tube double conversion superhet based on a
danish (Torotor) coil set in 1953. Except the coil set it was built from scratch.

Next was a transmitter with a Geloso (it.) VFO and a 2E26 PA in 1954.

1955 was the big year when I built a SSB exciter, a chinese copy of the
Central Electronics 20A. I was helped by CE in that I was allowed to buy
the Phase shift network and the PA switched coil assembly. I did also
receive a complete manual and chassis drawing for the 20A. I came on the
air with it in nov. 1955 as the first ham in Finland on SSB.

In 1956 I had a 4 ft. rack fabricated to house a 4-65A PA and tuner on
top, an AM modulator below it and on the bottom shelf a PS for both.
The choice of PA tube was due to the 150W PEP and CW limit. AM was
limited to 50W.

In 1957 the entire family moved to Mariehamn on the Aland Islands after
my XYL (OH2QJ) and I (OH2OJ) had first made a SSB DXpedition to the
islands to put that country on the SSB map.

I put together a Heathkit FM Tuner to use with the Heath AA-32
Stereo Amplifier for my Hi-Fi setup.
That's as close as I've gotten in receiver building.

I have built a lot of Heathkits both for myself and for customers that
didn't they were capable to do it themselves. A National and a couple of
Eico transceiver kits were also built.

I still have a Heathkit Monitor Scope and d:o Panadapter on my ham desk.
Some Heathkit and Eico Kit units for my radio/TV service are now stored
in the apartment.

But I have tinkered with the insides of my Hallicrafters SX-42 a
little bit by looking at the schematic and reading about how to
service it.

Well, the first thing I do if I have bought a new apparatus is to open
it up to see what it has eaten.


CU L8ER, Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

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I still have a Heathkit Monitor Scope and d:o Panadapter on my ham desk. HG>Some Heathkit and Eico Kit units for my radio/TV service are now stored HG>in the apartment.

aka Holger

congrarts Gerat job Holger.

I never got that far into self building but have built numerious
Heathkit and Alied Radio small project kits.

As a momento of my "good Old Days' I still have a Knight Kit(Allied
Radio) Function Generator unbuilt in the box

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06-20-15 09:51 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: New Ham

@MSGID: <55869485.854.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>
In a message dated 06-18-15, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

GM Ed,

GE Holger,

I built my DX-40 kit over 50 years ago.

My first build however was a 6F6+807 xtal controlled
transmitter

That was in 1951.
After having been released from the obligatory military duty
1952 I bought a homebuilt transmitter rack containing an 807 PA
& AM modulator.

I've read Your list and will make up a list of my gear later.


It is storming right now, so I'm getting this message sent and QRT .


73


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In a message dated 06-21-15, Tom Walker said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Tom,

congrarts Gerat job Holger.

I never got that far into self building but have built numerious
Heathkit and Alied Radio small project kits.

The attraction of ham radio is that there are so meny different ways to
enjoy the hobby. Some like constructing, some chatting in phone or CW,
some enjoy contests, some chasing new countries, some fox hunting and
what have you. There's something for everyone.

73 de Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

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Hi Sam!

There's also a third like and dis like to this, grin!

The attraction of ham radio is that there are so meny different ways to enjoy the hobby. Some like constructing, some chatting in phone or CW, some enjoy contests, some chasing new countries, some fox hunting and
what have you. There's something for everyone.

73 de Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

Back in 1955 or so when I had my Extra Class and was a high school kid here at A&M Consolodated High School in College Station, Texas I was also more or less a member of the Texas Aggie W5AC ham club that was in the original Memorial Student Center there on the campus. They had a Fox Hunter Project and more or less bet me that they could find me if I was the Fox no matter what. Hmmm. I had already built the first color weather radar and more here at Texas A&M's Oceanography and Meteorology Department under the mentorship of Dr. George Huebner W5GDK, I 'bet' *NO*.

Well on Fox Hunter day, they lost the 'bet'!

I had access to the Lloyd family farm out near Wellborn, Texas that was adjacent to the then IGN railroad line between College Station, Texas and Navasota, Texas going toward Houston. I took my transmitter out over the Lloyd
ranch to the IGN railroad and spike climbed up the telephone pole to the telegraph line adjacent to the railway, I attached a neat little small wire to
it capacitor coupled and fired up the Fox. There were lots of roads adjacent to the rail line here and there including solid back near the College Station town about six miles from where I coupled to the telegraph line. They tried all day long over and over again to find the Fox! But *NEVER* could find it! Amazing what a neat antenna can do here and there! And what even a simple mobile transmitter can do in a moving car that can totally smash all wi-fi data
operations for just a few bucks that make the cloud a nasty bet you can use it for hiding anything that people can't see today! But they don't want to talk about for some reason, sigh.

Furious at FidoDog Mikey they were not happy to see me at club meetings after that, chuckle. Oh well. Payback, grin! They were at that time using a BC610 high power transmitter at the club station in the Memorial Student Center. It HORRIBLY created TVI on the Channel 2 TV station signal from Houston, Texas, here about 90 miles away. And they had been blaming *ME* publically for causing THEIR TVI that the neighborhood was FURIOUS about on CW, chortle! Which I *DID NOT DO* at all! Even the nearby resident TV sets were clean with me! I knew TV pretty well at that time as even the kid in high school here that put in the first color television sets in all of Bryan and College Station
at 15 years of age working for a TV and Hi-FI shop to help pay for my food and gas for my Model "A" Ford car with even then a mobile unit in it. Generator powered even back then in that car.

So there there is yet a kind of a third pattern to what you describe in your Fido message! As I was even mixed with the creation of Fido back then at 300 and 1000 baud modems!


Mike (MikeyDog) Luther as N117C at 1:117/100 and W5WQN




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06-20-15 09:51 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: New Ham

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In a message dated 06-18-15, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

GM Ed,

GE Holger,

I built my DX-40 kit over 50 years ago.

My first build however was a 6F6+807 xtal controlled
transmitter

Some of my friends had a 807 rig, but I heard a lot about the 6146
could handle the Novice full power limit (75W) so saved up for the
DX-40.

That was in 1951.

The day I got a Hallicrafter S-38E my Novice license came in the
mailbox (1958).
It was a few months later before I could order the DX-40 and get
on the air.

After having been released from the obligatory military duty
1952 I bought a homebuilt transmitter rack containing an 807 PA
& AM modulator.

Reading that made me think of an Ham that had a TX in a rack,
with a 807 in it.
I'm thinking Miller was the maker of that piece of gear but
not sure if that name is right or not.
It was a long time ago, and I have the first sign of old age.
-snip-

1955 was the big year when I built a SSB exciter, a chinese
copy of the Central Electronics 20A. I was helped by CE in that
I was allowed to buy the Phase shift network and the PA
switched coil assembly. I did also receive a complete manual
and chassis drawing for the 20A. I came on the air with it in
nov. 1955 as the first ham in Finland on SSB.

In 1956 I had a 4 ft. rack fabricated to house a 4-65A PA and
tuner on top, an AM modulator below it and on the bottom shelf
a PS for both. The choice of PA tube was due to the 150W PEP
and CW limit. AM was limited to 50W.

You were already using a Ei-Mac 4-65A before I became a Ham.
While I was in the Navy I saw a Electronic Technician working
on a VHF or UHF TX that had a 4-65A in it, and after reading up on
the specifications I fell in love with the tube.
I liked the looks of the tube.

IIRC the 4-65A(s?) was/were used as the Modulator in a AN/GRA or
AN/GRC TX (or TX/RX?) for Air Traffic Controllers on the Aircraft
Carrier to talk to Pilots to give them instructions on when they
could land their Plane.

I dreamed of having two 4-65A's in a HF Final Amp but never did.

I have a antenna tuner with plug in coils for 20M and 80M,
but never used it.
Another Ham built it.

Here is a listing of the Ham Radio Gear I've used at my QTH.

The first HF gear I used was a Hallicrafters S-38E until I got a
used Hallicrafters SX-42 and a RME DB-20 preselector.
The TX was a Heath DX-40 and Knight VF-1 VFO.
My Antennas were a 40M Dipole for 40 and 15 Meters, and a
Gotham V-80 Vertical for 80M.

Later I had Drake 2-B, 2-BQ and Heath TX-1 Apache until I got a
Kenwood TS-520S.
I used a 20M Inverted Vee and a 80M Slinkey Antenna until I
removed the wiring going up to the attic from the basement.

I have a Autek Research QF-1 Audio Filter connected ahead of my
speaker.

The only product from Central-Electronics that I have is a GC-1
Gated Compression Amplifier.

I still think of the C-E 100V and 600L I used at the Ham Shack
at the Navy Base in California back in the early 1960's.
Touch a few knobs to match the frequency I was listening to,
and start transmitting on SSB, CW or AM.

A Ham I met while I was in California told me he would zero beat
someone talking on AM with his C-E 10A, and use their carrier
to make QSO's with other stations.
The AM'ers didn't care much for him doing that on 'their' frequency.
The operator of the 10A enjoyed hearing them get upset back in the
early days of SSB operating.

C-E used Phasing for SSB, I remember reading about a
Balanced Modulator circuit being used for SSB also.

For 6 Meters I have a Heath Sixer, though I stopped using it when
my neighbor across the street mentioned he could hear me on his TV,
I didn't want to ruin the shows he was watching on his set by my
jabbering with other Hams so I am QRT on 6M.

For 2-Meters I used a Regency HR-2 and a Kenwood TR-9130.
The TR-9130 developed problems staying on frequency and it couldn't
be repaired.
The last time I turned the HR-2 on I couldn't hear anybody on it.

Maybe I will get another 2M XCVR and get back on the air some day.

I enjoy reading Anateur Radio BBS echos to see what's happening on
the ham bands while I'm QRT.

In 1957 the entire family moved to Mariehamn on the Aland
Islands after my XYL (OH2QJ) and I (OH2OJ) had first made a SSB
DXpedition to the islands to put that country on the SSB map.

The OH prefix is Finland, DX Zone 15.

I put together a Heathkit FM Tuner to use with the Heath AA-32
Stereo Amplifier for my Hi-Fi setup.
That's as close as I've gotten in receiver building.

I have built a lot of Heathkits both for myself and for
customers that didn't they were capable to do it themselves. A
National and a couple of Eico transceiver kits were also built.

A man and his son had built a Knightkit SW Receiver and asked me to
help them to make it work.
They gave me the RX and the manual.

When I looked at the picture in the manual of where the parts are
placed on the RX chassis, I saw two wires were soldered to the
grounded terminal and one wire was on the isolated terminal.

The fix was switching the wires on the terminal strip and
soldering them back.

I still have a Heathkit Monitor Scope and d:o Panadapter on my
ham desk. Some Heathkit and Eico Kit units for my radio/TV
service are now stored in the apartment.

I got a VTVM, VOM, Digital Mulitmeter & Audio Signal Tracer on my
work bench.
Someone built a 2 inch Scope kit included with a Radio-TV course
took through the mail, and gave it to me but I never learned how
to use it like another Ham I know does.

But I have tinkered with the insides of my Hallicrafters SX-42 a
little bit by looking at the schematic and reading about how to
service it.

Well, the first thing I do if I have bought a new apparatus is
to open it up to see what it has eaten.

I will raise the top cover if it is hinged to look around a new
piece of radio gear, but I don't look under the chassis right away.
I'll read the manual and look at the schematic pages to try learning
how it works.

When I was a SWL, the Midwest SW Radio I had, stopped working and I
looked under its chassis.
One part I remember looked strange to me, between the two ends that
had wires coming out from it, the middle of the part was braided wire.

The schematic showed it was a Resistor.
Have You seen any Resistors that looked like that when You repaired
someones product?

73

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In a message dated 06-11-15, Tom Walker said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Tom,

Yeah, those were the times when we still built our own gear instead of
as now being appliance operators, hi.

While I was a late comer into the ham community, 1992, becasue I
tried for over 40 years to learn the code and it never clicked those
were the "Good Old Days" Building your own rigs and having to really
know some theory to pass the test.

Apparently I was an early comer then as got licensed 1951. I have always
been a "technical" ham and built my own gear until sometime after 1961
when I started my own business and there wasn't time enough left.

CU L8ER,

Holger

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