“KAR” Kansas Amateur Radio “KAR”

May 2016 newsletter http://ksarrl.org/

w0oyh@arrl.net

Hi gang, Not so good news, I am now into congestive heart failure. My Cardiologist explained it this way. The normal heart fills up and squezez out 50% and my heart is squeezing out only 40%. Doesn't sound like much but it fills my lungs with water and you can not breath. I woke up at 4am a few mornings ago not breathing so well. Doc put me on a water pill and I lost 5 pounds of water. I find thatI don't have the strenght to do my yard work. Doc says NO SALT at all. I sure don't feel good. Maby better by next issue!

My son sent me this email today from work:

Subject: WALTER BRYANTFrom: Brian Cook

Walter was in today, to purchase a replacement power supply for a musical device. I came up with the solution, and he was happy. So we got to talking about what he

did, and he said he was the music director at Worlds of Fun. And I mentioned how my father repaired electronic organs, that’s when he asked for my last name, and I said COOK. And he said ORLAN? And I said yes. He went on to brag about you, and how you could fix anything. And he stills remembers you told him about how metal grows crystals of metal. He could not say anything bad about you. After Walter left, our new coworker Mark, whois also a musician, is have a heartache, and he says, DO YOU KNOW WHO THAT WAS? And I said yes Walter Bryant. Mark then tells me that Walter wrote all the music that was ever played at Worlds of Fun, and how famous he is. WHO IS YOUR DAD, That Walter knows him? He was impressed… Brian Brian Cook | Sales | Electronics Supply Co., Inc.4100 Main Kansas City, MO 64111 | 816.931.0250brianc@eskc.com| www.eskc.com My Oldest son! I remember Walter as a very little kid setting on an electronic organ bench which I use to repair in his home about 1975.

I also remember Chris when he was very small and he became the ball park organist B4 all the electronics took over. He passed away several years ago.

I installed the organ for the Billy Graham Crusade at tho old ball part on Brooklyn Ave back about 1963.I had to meet with the music director Cliff and was I surprised cuz on TV he looked rather normal but when I stood in front of him he looked like a foot ball player. Only he knew where he wanted the Baldwinorgan to set on stage. Oh, this you wont know, I was one of those who prayed with those coming forward to receive Jesus.

When I worked for the Baldwin factory store at 1015 grand, now a parking lot, where “ferrante and teicher” practiced on our Grands B4 their progran at the KC Music Hall. José Iturbi and his wife use tocome into the store and sign the piano sound boards for Baldwin.

Would you like to hear more of my 84 years? How about me and Harry Truman belly to belly in a parkinglot at 7th and Walnut about 1959? JUST ASK!!! w0oyh@arrl.net Orlan

Links for Kansas hams!ARRL http://www.arrl.org

Kansas Section Pages and KAR's http://ksarrl.org/

ARRL Midwest Director's newsletter http://www.arrlmidwest.org/newsletter/newsletter.pdf

Kansas ARES Pages http://ksarrl.org/ares

Kansas ARES Printable Map http://ksarrl.org/ares/printit/

Skywarn is Wichita NWS Skywarn http://www.ict-skywarn.org

Kansas QSO Party http://ksqsoparty.org

Newton ARC http://www.newtonarc.org

Wichita ARC http://www.warc1.org

Ensor Museum http://www.ensorparkandmuseum.org/

S. A. T. E. R. N. http://www.SATERN.salvationarmy.us

KC ham Info http://www.kchams.net/larrys_list.html

NF9L KC page http://kchamradio.com/

ARRL Ks affilate club list http://www.arrl.org/find-a-club#listing

Requests from clubs to be listed in KARhttp://ksarrl.org/

The Wheat State Wireless Association FB page https://www.facebook.com/groups/WS0WA/Terry WAØDTH email is reimter@hotmail.com which is referenced as a contact for the club.

The Sand Hills Amateur Radio Club, Inc www.SandhillsARC.com Rod Hogg KØEQH President SHARE

The Jarbalo Amateur Radio Association (JARA) http://jara.signaleer.us Rick, KF4LM

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ARRL Midwest Director Roderick K. Blocksome KØDAS

The ARRL Midwest Division June 2016 Newsletter is now available onthe Division's Web page. Here's the direct link:

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Highlights this month:

Field Day and NPOTARocky Mountain HAMCON - Pre-Game ShowIowa State Convention ReportSt. Louis QRP Society Builders ContestBlue Angles Fly Over W0TTAround the Midwest Division (Here and There) Jon Jones, N0JK, HF Mobile DX "Old School" Drone Inspects Antennas Buchanan County Iowa ARES Receives Governor's AwardMidwest Division Special Event StationsMidwest Division ARRL Hamfests & Conventions

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Western Kansas 160 meter netThe Western Kansas 160m Net meets every Tuesday evening at 8 PM Mountain time on or near 1.960 LSB.

We usually have a Ham radio related topic we discuss each week along with news and announcements concerning ham radio.

We Elmer as a group anyone needing help in anyway we can. All stations are welcomed to check into this net.

73

matt, kd0ezs

u Hello W4GFW Glen And all NMW S.M.A.R.T. ham operators KC0NDG Sherwin, Reporting in. Yes, we should and need to reform our SMART Ham Radio Chapter., I hope that you received the information that I sent forward about all the - SMART information KC0NDG -- received in our last Kansas KAR newsletter.I only have a hand held 2 meter . It works wide range here in our new reach out area here. . I do 73’s to Veterans from time to time.. I would hope all SMART Ham operators could be reporting out the same SMART information in there areas. . Also , SMART Hams can and should be helping with National, and Regional Parking. In some areas where our National events are held, summer storm areas of Central US, Weather watchers for SMART could be a life savor. Am going to forward this to all NMW chapters. . Asking all S.M.A.R.T. Ham operators to report in, and 73’s. KC0NDG Sherwin Taskforce

u Please check this out . go to our S.M.A.R.T. www.smartrving.org site. , left side scroll down to LINKS OF INTEREST. My Kansas Ham Radio www. page will be there for all to see.Thank you HamsKCONDG Sherwin

SEEING THE COUNTRY WE DEFEND

Go to www.smartrving.org

Click to Left on -- TRAVELER Click down on MARCH TRAVELER This TRAVELER is posted Bi-Monthly on www

We also Post a E-News each mo. Again thank you for posting our S.M.A.R.T. on our KAR page. KCONDG Sherwin Thank you Orlan

Again: Thank you Orlan for your support along with all of our Kansas Ham operators. 73’s to all my Ham friends. I would enjoy-- giving a talk to one of our NCK operators meeting ] about S.M.A.R.T.. What our S.M.A.R.T. Veterans stand for and what we do as an organization.Thank you in advance.KCONDG Sherwin www.smartrving.org SEEING THE COUNTRY WE DEFEND

God Bless those who have served this great country AMERICA Proud Military Veteran SEEING THE COUNTRY WE DEFEND SHERWIN & DOROTHY STIELOW

ARES – Amateur Radio Emergency Service!

Complete list of ECs and a printable State Ares map at

http://ksarrl.org/ares/alphaks.php/ http://ksarrl.org/distks.pnp

u Zone 2F – Stan WDØEUF

u Zone 3B – Eric KCØARW

Kansas ARES Dist.3B net report for May, 2016

The net is held every Monday night at 8:30 pm on 147.120 AA0HJ and 442.725 KD0ARW linked repeaters located at Phillipsburg.

5 net sessionsQNI 23

QTC 046 mins on airParticipating stations: KD0ARW, AA0HJ, AA0ND, N0RLT, N0LL, KD0CJF

442.725 repeater should be back online this month. Also, working on linking 443.275 into both repeaters, along with upgrades to all 3 Phillips Co. RepeatersThanks Eric Melton, KD0ARW

u Zone 4A – Brian KCØBS

MAY 2016 MONTHLY ARES REPORT TO DEC & SEC

Total of ACTIVE ARES members: 150 +0Local Net Name: Johnson County ARESEmergency Cooridinator = Brian Short KC0BS 913-638-7373Alternate Emergency Coordinator = Jim Andera K0NK 913-884-6613Assistant Emergency Coordinators:Steve Rainey WD0DPB - Spec EventsGeorge McCarville WB0CNK - Training, DrillsMatt May KC4WCG - IDs, MECCBill Gery KA2FNK - Recruiting, TechnologyDarren Martin N0MZW - Net ManagerStan Frear KA5WEI - MembershipDel Sawyer K0DDS - CERTChuck Simpson KC0NUG - Rapid ResponseDenny Healzer KC0ZDS - KCHEART

NTS liaison is maintained with the KS SSB Net:Jim Andera K0NK Terry Reim WA0DTHGeorge McCarville WB0CNK Jim Cordill KI0BKDebbie Britain AB0UY Rich Britain N0ENO Wretha Galeener KC0HHO

Net Sessions: 42QNI: 298QTC: 05 nets = 2 Meter Voice4 nets = CW5 nets = 6 Meter5 nets = 2 Meter Voice Simplex5 nets = PSK 31 SATERN5 nets = APRS Packet4 nets = 70CM 4 nets = 1.25 Meter5 nets = SATERN 80 meter SSB

June will be the Credentialing meeting.

Once again we will receive County recognized ID's from JO Emergency Management.

Make sure you have submitted an updated Membership Profile form to receive your new ID.

Also at the June meeting, Bill Brinker will be discussing Yaesu's Fusion system and what you need to know of itsusage during disasters.

See you at the Salvation Army on June 9!

PMP, PPL-SEL, KCØBS

Report prepared by:Darren Martin N0MZWJohnson County Kansas

u Zone 4I - Mike KCØNFG

MAY, 2016ARES 4-I NET REPORT ARES 4-I NETS: 4; CHECK IN-80; TRAFFIC-0 ARES 4-I NET HELD SUNDAY EVENINGS 9:00PM / 146.985 K0HAM REPEATERBACKUP FREQ. SIMPLEX 146.580; 443.000 t103.5 K0ESU REPEATER; 147.045 t88.5 KOHAM/K-LINK REPEATER SYS 73, MIKE PATE/KC0NFG ARES 4-I EC AR

u Zone 6E – Rod KØEQHKansas ARES Zones 6A, E & G Net Report for May 2016

Total Nets............5

Total QNI............34

Traffic...............1 (Net Report)

Stations Participating: WBØQYA, ACØE, KEØGXV, NØOMC, NØKQX, NØOXQ KØEQH, WØBYV-(Formally KAØNIC)

Alternate NCS....NØOMC

Brad Baker, formally KAØNIC, now has his late father's call, WØBYV

A report on the western Kansas spring picnic is shown on the Sand HillsARC web page.... www.sandhillsarc.com

RodKØEQHNCS

Letters to the Editor

u BLUE MOON RISEOn the 31st of July 2015, this beautiful time-lapse rise of the Full Blue Moon was captured 2 miles away from Cape Byron Lighthouse, on Belongil Beach, Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia. The head land and lighthouse at Byron Bay is the most easterly point of the Australian Mainland and therefor is the first place in Australia to watch the full moon rise. This video is made up of 1038 frames and slowed down to as close to real time as possible. The photographer has been working on perfecting this type of time lapse for over a year now after seeing the work of his favorite photographer Mark Gee.

Don't forget to breathe watching this majestic time-lapse; everything about it is just perfect, and it's a photography clinic for anyone interested in taking time-lapse.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/137218768

Maralee

u Orlan,Thank you. Hope this finds you well and on the road to recovery.Have a good day.VinceKE0CGR

u These slow motion shots of bullets impacting various targets are awesome. There is an instance of bright flash, so fast that it is not seen at regular

speed or by the cognizant eye of the shooter, but the brain gets the

signal. Maybe that is why most people blink when they fire a gun.

Amazing shots, for sure.

http://www.chonday.com/Videos/sowmoghy2

Roger non-ham

u Subject: Man Dog and Humming Bird Good story! Take a couple of minutes and watch this video.

http://1funny.com/man-dog-hummingbird/

Liz

u Larry - today representatives of the Kaw Valley Amateur Radio Club met with Governor Brownback where he signed a Proclamation of the Governor proclaiming the week of June 20 - June 26, 2016 as:

Kansas Amateur Radio Field Day Week

http://www.mills-usa.com/ac0hy//FieldDayColor_ks_1.pdf

Picture of Governor’s Proclamation Signing:

http://www.ac0hy.org/FieldDaySigning2016.html

Valorie Noury, KD0YTYvalnoury09@gmail.com_______________________________________________To post a message to all the list members, send email directly to <lstaples@kc.rr.com>

u VANISHING SUNSPOTS: Something interesting is happening on the sun. Yesterday, June 3rd,the sunspot number dropped to 0, and the solar disk is still blank on June 5th. Latest images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory reveal no significant dark cores:

Jim WØEB

u Larry’s List:

For sale make offer.This is web site about the Cedar Rapids Bug

<http://www.radioblvd.com/telegraph_keys.htm>

Scroll down to Electrical Speciality Mfg “Cedar Rapids Bug�

Chet Hallberg KÃT̃CBMary Jo Hallberg KÃT̃GUchesterh4830@sbcglobal.net_______________________________________________To post a message to all the list members, send email directly to <lstaples@kc.rr.com>

Latest newsletterhttp://ksarrl.org/kar

The Kansas State Convention - Salina KansasAugust 21, 2016

Home pg http://www.centralksarc.com/Convention pg http://www.centralksarc.com/schedule.htm

u Of course this week is also the Smoky Hill River Festival (and Jam) Thursday - Sunday in Oakdale Park.If you can provide 3 or more hours of "coverage" with your radio (on the NØSLN Repeater 443.0250 + 118.8 Hz Tone access) I can supply you with a button for your time in the park.The NØSLN Repeater is NOT "Digital" at this time.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Monday at 4:30 PM (IF the Weather cooperates) is the monthly Siren Test & Net (on the NØKSC Repeater)Wednesday evening at 7:00 PM is the monthly Amateur Radio Exam Session - followed by the CKARC Board MeetingSaline County Sheriff's Office Classroom 251 N 10th Street (N 10th and Park Streets).

Sid  NØOBM

-- Sid Ashen-Brennersid.ashenbrenner@gmail.com

SILENT KEYS “SK”u No reports.

Tom's Key Strokes - WØEAJDenver, Co. Displaced Kansas Neighbor

and very gud friend.!***

daileyservices@centurylink.net

u Hi Everybody, yeah, it's time for another boatanchor story. Recently, I picked up a fairly nice Hallicrafters SX-28 receiver. Checking with a fellow who knows of such things, it was determined by checking the serial-number, that it was made in December of 1941 - Wow! Now, those radios just LOOK LIKE what a receiver SHOULD look like; you know - all business and no frilly menus or pushbuttons. It has real KNOBS and real SWITCHES that "go clack in the night". Oh, and it produces the most wonderful perfume... that marvelous Eau d'electronique of warmed tube-dust, capacitor wax, resistor bakelite and old wiring - yessir, it's a magical smell (yeah.. as long as the bakelite and wax don't get TOO WARM!). It's been partially recapped, but I still have to doMAJOR surgery on it to even GET TO those buried ones - you must remove bandswitch compoonents, unsolder wires, and pull stuff apart - arghhhh. Sounds like a WINTER project to ME! Anyway.. back in 2010, I lost my Stepdad - Jim Carl WØKI (sk). I remember when Mom told me she was "dating" a fellow she'd met at the Senior Center. We'd lost my Dad about a year before, and Mom was well... in a word - Lonely. They'd met at a dance, and began to go out for coffee and pie, and enjoyed each other's company. Jim seemed always happy, and while a very quiet guy, laughed and smiled with verve. We discovered we had many similarities; We were both Masons, both Ham Radio ops, he'd worked for the FAA for 37 years, and I'd been in avionics, sold airplanes, and had flown charter a bit, and he'd been a radio-operator in the US Army.. and I... well, same thing in the US Navy! We both loved to home-brew (radio stuff, that is), and could work on engines, cars, and the like. My fears of having a "Stepfather" were totally unfounded, and we became buddies... so after he'd gone, I would often go down to the basement in PV, and piddle around at his electronics bench and fix something from time-to-time, just because it seemed so comfortable down there. I remember he had some old things sitting on a metal shelving unit, and one of those was an ugly old black power supply of some manner. It had 2 big transformers on top, and a smaller one inside the Bud Box they weremounted on. Several terminal strips with loose diode-rectifiers, and 7 big electrolytics that had begun to spew their effluvia out of the ends. Jim like to work on TVs a lot, so I assumed it may have been a p/s for the Sony Trinitrons that he'd done several of (they require 3 different "odd" voltages to bring up - always hated 'em), but the connector on the end of a bundle of wires was not for a SONY. I just left it on the shelf. When I eventually had to move my Mom into assisted-living in 2012, we cleaned out the house to ready it for sale - that's when I boxed up the Kenwood TS-940S/AT, pulled all the RG-8 out of the office, and took down the Mosley beam from the Tri-X tower (which I sold to my very dear friend Butch Lewis - KØPSA). As the basement got cleaned out, and benches given away, along with some parts cabinets and other stuff... there sat the old forlorn power supply. I had to take it - I simply could NOT leave it there, 'cause Jim had built it with his own hands and maybe.. just maybe I could use the transformers someday. So - into my car it went, then to Denver, then down here in "the styx" to Sedalia, Co (about 26 miles South of Denver and a bit West). I've had that old critter for nearly 4 years, and it made a great doorstop. Recently, a friend in NY, sent me an old Drake TR-3 with the AC-3 power supply. I discovered that the TR-3 had 1 broken final tube, and a big wirewound resistor that was open in the p/s. I also replaced some burned cathode resistorsunderneath the final "cage" on the TR-3, and was gratified to see it all working again. Yep, just somethin' about an analog dial - you just spin that baby around and FIND folks, instead of like on my IC-756 ProII ICOM.. where, it's sorta' like cheating... putting in 3.92000 LSB and there ya are. One has to peak the grid control on the Drake,and it gives the effect of an antenna-trimmer which was on many receivers in years past. Along the path of getting the radio going again, my good buddy Hunter - KØGFY (Larkspur, CO) gave me another TR-3 for a "parts" radio... some moron had literally TORN OUT the armature for the T/R relay, 1 incorrect tube (which I replaced with the correct one), and it has a bad 9 mc. xtal, but it works... (with help from my nearby signal generator, supplying the hetrodyne frequency). I don't have a supply for IT, but maybe I'll cobble something up. at a later date.

So.. pleased with myself for making the NY Drake "live" again and glancing over at the "black lump", I began thinking about that old "black" power supply from Jim's place. Hmmm, the caps are the same value as the AC-3,those balancing/bleeder resistors are the same value, the diode strings (now mostly disconnected) sure could bewired the same.. HEY! This thing is a copy of a Drake AC-3 power supply!.. I looked at the connector, and by golly IT WAS THE SAME. Hot Dog, now it made sense.. when I'd cleaned out Jim's desk in his office/shack, I'd found cut-sheets for a Drake TR-3 & TR-4.. (he never threw any manual or documentation away.. period), but he'd never mentioned owing Drakes, so I hadn't thought about it. He'd been an engineer with the FAA, taking care of ground-maint. aspects, and I'd been aware that he LOVED home-brewing goodies for the shack, so now it made sense. That power supply was made BY HIM and FOR HIM. Okay, I got inspired; I had the schematic of the AC-3 (the AC-4 is similar) and I darned sure had the transformers, resistors, & terminal strips... the caps were ALL bad, but searching through my stock of new and slightly-used (newer) caps, produced all the values I needed (7 electrolytics in all) for the HV, B+, & bias), so I unsoldered and removed all of the parts and terminal strips and started over. Last night, I got it done. It's actually sorta' pretty under there, and with today's capacitors being considerably smaller, there is more room under the chassis, too. I still have to find some multi-conductor cable, and put the connector on, but bringing it up on the Variac showed no excessive current draw (the installed smoke has been left INSIDE), and close to the correct voltages (remember.. no loads yet). As I sat there in the quiet of the night, looking at my prize on the bench, I could almost see him smile, and say his usual "That's really nice, Tom". I have his TS-940S/AT, HE gave me his Heathkit SB-220, and a few assorted tools and a meter, but this... this old black power supply, with afew extra holes now, well... it's a living memory of my Stepdad.. and now I have that supply for the Drake TR-3 "parts radio".. In what other hobby can friends and relatives, long past... reach out and speak to you? A handful of parts, a few screws and nuts, some old heavy metal pieces from who-knows-where, much less who-knows-when, and it warms the room, when it lights the tubes... and Jim might smile at me, saying... "That's nice, Tom" dit dit

u This is Chuck Penson's book on HEATHKIT TEST EQUIPMENT products. His book on the Amateur Radio products is excellent, so I recommend gettng this one. Ironically, the NEW ones are cheaper ($19.95) than used ones that folks are trying to get $30+ for.http://www.amazon.com/WA7ZZE-Heathkit-Equipment-Products-Paperback/dp/B00RWS12VO

http://www.ohio.edu/people/postr/bapix/HLegacy.htm

u You bet - his book on the Amateur products is simply GREAT. I discovered they'd made stuff I didn't even know about. When I worked at KING RADIO out in Olathe (essentially 1/66 - 12/71), we used Heathkit VTVMs at nearly every position. Tom

u Oh, and if you look at the last picture in May KAR, that's actually NOT a Johnson Speed-X, rather an even MORE rare beast... an "Electrical Specialties Mfg. Co." bug.. typically called a "Cedar Rapids Bug", as that's where the parts were made.. see, that bug was the ONLY ONE ever made as a KIT. I have the one that belonged to my Stepdad - Jim Carl - WØKI (sk). It's base is QUITE HEAVY (a good thing), and the action is very, very nice. Jim used it during WW-II, I was told.. and definately when he was doing comms for the CAA (later called FAA) - yes, all the clearances and such were passed over HF links, via CW.. didn't know that, did'ya? I sure didn't.

Tom

u A better view of a later Johnson speed-X

u THIS GUY has some keys! http://w1tp.com/im8000b.htm

u Antenna design turns entire vehicles intobroadcastingequipment Back in the earlier 70’s, while I was working at Burstein-Applebee, they sold a CB “antenna", that essentially wasa small tuner (composed of two trimmers), and it was mounted at the top of the rear window of a car (most were not fastbacks or deck lid cars back then)... From that tuner, a wire ran directly down and connected to the bottomof the window opening, which constituted a "skelton slot" matching system, where the window opening shape became the matching transformer. It then loaded up the WHOLE CAR BODY. It worked like an absolute champ, but having used ordinary ceramic compression trimmer caps, it wouldn't hold "tune", as the screws came undone. A pity, because it was an ideal setup and worked quite well. Tom Dailey - WØEAJradio@daileyservices.com_______________________________________________To post a message to all the list members, send email directly to <lstaples@kc.rr.com>

u Well,. I'm not the least bit surprised about the result... but called MFJ to see about buying a replacement switch & output board for my MFJ-269 antenna analyzer. (mine's got an intermittant that I cannot find). They were nice enough to ask around, but admitted that they have NO SPARE BOARDS for these units, as the board "assembly" has all the SMC components mounted at the same time, then the individual boards are sawed apart. What they DID offer was a complete board set for just shy of $200... hey, that's great, ALMOST the full price for a used unit in working condition. Grrrrrr.

So, caveat emptor when buying something from them. OH.. and does anybody out there have a '269 that doesn't work or has been damaged, that has this board intact? I'd consider a used '259 if the price was REALLY right.

Tom Dailey, W0EAJtom@daileyservices.com_______________________________________________To post a message to all the list members, send email directly to < lstaples@kc.rr.com >

u -------- Forwarded Message --------Subject: Re: "In-Tenna"Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 23:40:38 -0600From: radio@daileyservices.comReply-To: radio@daileyservices.comTo: Bruce Liddel <bliddel@sunflower.com>CC: Larry Staples <lstaples@kc.rr.com>, Orlan <orlanc@everestkc.net>, DALE CLARK <wa0cfq@sbcglobal.net>

The inventor was Mr. J. David Bryan, BSEE and his boy really WAS 14 years old at the time. Mr. Bryan passed on at age 80.

----- Original Message ----- From: <radio@daileyservices.com>Subject: Re: "In-Tenna"

> I'll be darned - it's true, you CAN find anything on E "bite">>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-The-Intenna-3355CBA-Microwave-Filter-Co-inside-the-car-CB-antenna-/272008098780#ht_25wt_1105

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u Hey gang.. remember these? It was called an "IN TENNA" and was basically a matching setup that loaded up your car body for a CB antenna. BA sold the heck out of 'em, and they DID work.. albiet, the two ceramic compression trimmer-caps that you adjusted would come unscrewed with vehicle vibration and bouncing, and it would not be tuned anymore. You mounted the matching box at the TOP of your rear window, then a wire straight down the BOTTOM of the window... hooked the cable up to your CB (or 10m transceiver), adjusted the match, and presto... your WHOLE CAR BODY was the antenna. The idea came from a 14 year-old kid, whose dad was a microwave engineer. He'd explained to his boy what a "skeleton slot" match was, and the kid happened to notice the shape of the back window of the car, and the rest was history. They DID work pretty well. (until the screws "unscrewed")

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u  Took another trip back-in-time, last night. This is the 1959 Heathkit AR-3 "receiver" that I first heard real CW andthe first SSB voices on, back when I was 16. Basically a "table radio" with 3 extra bands and a BFO (if you don't count the sorta-noise-limiter, switchable AVC, bandspread, and "standby/mode switch"), it opened up quite a world to many, and I was one OF them. It still worked, lo these nearly 56 years later, but had a fair amount of AC hum, so it was time to recap the beggar. Of course, it uses a chassis-mounted "can type", 3-section electrolytic, so I used my tried & true methodof using 3 axial-lead caps (20 mfd @ 150v each), mounted on a 4-lug terminal strip, under the chassis [leave thecan in place - it looks nicer]. I then find a handy screw with a few threads above it's nut, and put on a hex-headed spacer, to which I mount the terminal strip. One then unsolders the wires from the old can, breaks the tabs off (more room) and puts the appropriate wires on the correct tabs of the terminal strip. In the case of this AR-3, 2 of the original wire leads were then too short, so I simply replaced those pieces of wire with new & longer pieces... trying to stick with the same color, if for no other reason than nostalgic accuracy. A few years back, I'd done a PROPER alignment on it (few of these radios EVER got a good alignment, and many never got one at all!), so the dial calibraton is as close as you can get, considering what it's limitations are... 40 meters is about 2mm wide! After finishing the soldering, I brought it up on the Variac (hey.. mistakes CAN happen), and was rewarded with noise from the speaker. Ultimately, I powered it down and checked all thetubes on my Navy TV-7A/U tube tester, and found a 12AV6, which is used for the detector, noise-limiter, and BFO.. that was "not so pretty good". Looking through my stash of tubes, I found one that was considerably better, and that took care of the weak BFO, and stopped the pseudo-motorboating, when the RF gain was used as the volume control (for CW and SSB). For those of you who have never had to deal with a receiver that WASN'T DESIGNED FOR CW or SSB, the trick was to turn up the AF gain all the way, then use the RF gain control for your volume.. of course, this DOES reduce sensitivity, which is why the "product detector" came about, and it's a whole lot better... as it's basicaly a mixer that's more efficient. All of the other tubes checked okay.. the 5Y3 rectifier ("damp chaser") was a bit down on performance, but not enough to bother anything in THIS radio. So powered it back up, with just my "test" antenna (33' of wire, along the periphery of the basement), and copied lots of CW stations.. including a KH6 in Hawaii, and a JA3 in Japan. Once on for a half-hour, I was quite surprised with it's "stability" as it were... as long as you didn't bump the bench, that is. The speaker had a couple of small radial cracks in the cone, near the outside edge, and these were fixed with a dab of clear fingernail polish. The cabinet (4.95 extra) isn't in the most perfect shape, but hey... it was plywood with shelf-paper stuck on... the folks at Benton Harbor provided FUNCTION, well before beauty came along. I'm pleased that it has the full compliment of "Daka Ware" knobs, and looks fairly good after being put back together. Listening to that old friend, from many years ago, brought back some memories for sure... the scent from warm tubes and wire insulation; I could almost hear my Mom & Dad... late on a Saturday night, calling down to their kid-in-the-basement, saying "Come'on Tommie.. Turn that darned radio OFF and come to bed, it's midnight" ...and ya'know?... I'm STILL the kid in the basement. Dit Dit

u  About 6 years ago, upon my Stepdad's passing (WØKI sk), he'd given me his Heathkit SB-220 and Kenwood TS-940S/AT... literally on his deathbed. I already had an ICOM IC-756 ProII, so didn't use the Kenwood, except at the house in KC, where Mom still lived. It was always nice to have a rig there to play with, and I guess it was a part of Jim that was a very personal connection for me. The '940S was one of the first "super rigs" that had a built in power supply, lots of whistles and bells for contesters, 200 PEP output on SSB, and well over 100w on CW, variable bandpass in the IF strip, and a host of other goodies, plus an optional automatic "antenna tuner" (Actually, a "Transmitter Fooler") Ultimately, I had to move Mom into an Assisted Living apartment, as we'd had a couple of "scares", involving guys knocking on the door and trying to sell her scams and such, with one occasion in which they "bought" several things, then said "We have to go to the bank to get money... we'll be right back".. and you know how THAT turned out... so I got up into the attic, and found the original box and packing for the Kenwood (Jim kept EVERY box for EVERY radio) and brought it home. Ultimately, I brought it down to our new place outside of Sedalia, CO.. and I set it up for AM, as it will do "Sushi" AM (KØOJ - on air quote). One day, after the morning net on 3.875 AM, I switched it over to 3.989 LSB to go to the Colorado Morning Wx net, and it wouldn't xmit SSB...neither in LSB or USB... worse, the AM carrier now wasdropping out after a few seconds, as well. It also did not have any display on the "secondary display" which shows information other than the dial readout. Reading up on this set of problems, which seems to be rather COMMON in TS-930s and 940s, it's a fault of oxidized mini-molex connectors, plus the PLL having lost lock. Shortening a very L-O-N-G story, I [finally] uncased the radio, dropped the front panel, and ended up removing all of the modules from the chassis (one-at-a-time), then pulling off EACH mini-molex connector, dribbling some DeoxIT into each pin openings, then replacing the connector. I forgot to count them all, but I'm pretty sure there are OVER EIGHTY to deal with, and they're not all easy.. most are the proverbial "PITA" to reach. Along with this, I also did the "Kenwood Fix".. that's loosening all board screws (again, one-at-a-time), and retightening... this often restores the chassis-grounds for the boards... works for every Kenwood I've ever had (or worked on). While I was at it, I put some DeoxIT into all of the rotary and slider pots and blew out the small amount of dust onthe encoder wheels. Under the "while I'm at it" heading, I also removed both fan covers and their housing/shrouds, and straightened them (they'd been slightly bent over the years, and impinged upon the fanblades, on occasion. A tiny bit of

"TriFlo" (spray teflon)... sprayed into the cap, then applied with a scribe point to the motor bearings, made them get instantly quiet and free running. The long and short of it all, is that after the radio was put back together, no thanks to Gravity and those difficult-to-hit holes for the self-tapping screws. that just LOVE to roll underneath OTHER modules, my breath held, and the variac turned up (I ALWAYS use a variac & isolation xfmr... always!), I was rewarded with NOTHING!.... arghh - (insert look of panic on fixit guy here)... so - as my old instructors in Navy electronics always said "Make a Visual Check!".. sure enough, I'd left the variable bandpass knobs turned all the way to pretty much ZERO BANDPASS.. so opening them up, produced lovely sound at less than .1uv (on 40m) and no dropouts upon transmitting into a dummy load. It also had a FULL secondary display (shows clock(s) or visual bandpass or frequencies in use [and available on memory] and both VFOs... that had NOT worked due to a loss of PLL lock, but now it did.. So... if you HAVE a TS-930 or TS-940, and it's problematic.. or for that matter, ANY radio using multiple connectors, you just might be able to "resurrect" it without selling your soul for enough money to have SOMEBODY ELSE fix it... with only a can of DeoxIT and a WHOLE LOTTA PATIENCE. Hooray.

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1320231 I'd forgotten I had this back on a rear shelf. It was built by Jim WØKI sk (my Stepdad), and after I repaired it, by swedging the mounting portion of a variable capacitor plate (that had fallen off), and sqeezing it back onto the rotor of the tuning cap, it'd worked again. I pulled itout of the box and powered it up.. I'm building an output tank for a 6m converter and want the output to be at 70 mHz, vice 28 mHz, so I can use my Yaesu FRG-9600 receiver with it. [this allmode receiver goes from 60-905 mHz], so this is the perfect tool.

After about 10 minutes, it settled down quite well. I think this is about a 1952-55 vintage, and he kept all 5 coils in the box (yep, he was great about that), so I have 'em all. Heath made these in the GD-1, GD-1A, & GD-1B versions, as well as about 4 other types in various model numbers. The "Tunnel Dipper" (using a tunnel diode) was the absolute BEST of the lot. For a time, I had Jim's best friend's GD-1.. but a collector simply had WAY TOO MUCH money, so ...okay. Neat to have one of Jim's hand-built kits to use.. he's never far away, that way. Tom

u Was going through some stuff last night, and found the original CERTIFICATE for the PRN's first occurence. Still in the original envelope, with the rubber-stamped return address of BERYL H MASTERS 7651 WASHINGTON K.C. MO 64114, it's addressed to me - WAØEAJ (at the time), in OvPk, Ks. The date of mailing was May 11th, 1975. Yep... you could properly call me.... A Charter Member. 73 Tom "T.Carl" DaileyWØEAJ

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