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Thread: Licensed ham
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6th February 2013, 12:15 AM #1
Licensed ham
Hi from a ham
I passed the novice exam in 1984 ..did the usual and bought a FT7
I had a few old WW2 era army sets .. I used a 122 set on 80 CW for a few years , my CW was so slow , but fun , met quite a few characters there . In those days CW was still a very active mode with many ex WW2 signallers on the air , sadly most of them have passed on . Clive at Myrtleford was tops on the key VK3PFM/VK3CQD ... he was ex RAAF .
Had many late nights yakking to Gordon VK5HM and Joe at Buronga .. they were up til 3 am most nights on 80 SSB ..both in their 70's. They would get out maps and discuss the meaning of town names .... Gordon was half sozzled all of the time, he was a pre WW2 ham .
Joe was a signaller in the army ..
Mike
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6th February 2013, 11:36 AM #2GOLD MEMBER
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I haven't even lurked for years but believe that SKN (Straight Key Night) still runs on 80 somewhere on New Year's eve. Slow enough for everybody.
VE7APC
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7th February 2013, 08:27 AM #3
This looks a bit like an intro thread, so here goes ...
I built up a Geloso VFO feeding an 807 and had "worked all continents" on CW in 1964 when still in high school.
I couldnt claim the ARRL WAC because I got my licence two years later in 1966!
I recently bought another AWA key,the same as I had way back then.
73 mike VK4xx
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7th February 2013, 07:39 PM #4
Nowa days ?
Imagine kids at high school today doing that type of thing, instead , they do this in their spare time
I played around with valve car phones for a while. I had a few 1960's taxi and police radios on the 2 m band . Vinten , PYE and AWA and a few other brands . I'd come up on the repeaters using a valve set , fun . The hum of the DC converter would always be heard on the carrier .
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7th February 2013, 08:30 PM #5New Member
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Giday.. I started out with a novice call when first introduced and went on air with an AM 10 watt xmitter built mainly out of salvaged tv bits xtal locked on 3565 with an AR7 receiver and a G5RV antenna. Getting the full call a bit later was a whole new game and gave me access to the world on 20m mainly using the same antenna and a Kenwood TS 140.Since then like most hams I've had many radios and played around with different antennas but also like most I never got interested with CW. When confusers came along I really got hooked on AMTOR which was a lot of fun with home built modems but after moving to our present QTH which is a black hole where radio signals are concerned I handed my license in and sold the last of my gear. I was feeling the loss a while back and thought about getting my old call back but someone else had snaffled it ( VK3BBC )and I was less than impressed with the attitude of the CWIA with my enquiries and the cost involved so I forgot the idea. I hope others might like to tell a bit of their radio history on this forum as always interesting to hear from others. 73 Laurie
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9th February 2013, 02:22 PM #6Intermediate Member
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I got my novice licence about mid 70s using an FT101ZD, but when I moved to Williamstown I never got round to installing an antenna partly due to a power line crossing the backyard.
We are now in another house & I got to thinking it might be nice to get back on air recently, especially now the novice licence has been upgraded with more power & frequencies.
I have always renewed the licence so it's still current.
Just got to get an antenna put up & pull out the old radio, but not sure of what antenna I can fit in & with limited finances.
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9th February 2013, 07:35 PM #7GOLD MEMBER
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I think(?) that the sunspot cycle is warming up.
Anybody got any appetite for stringing up simple 15m dipoles for a QSO?
I have loads of RG213 that needs to be warmed up.
Perhaps we should give it a whizz. Phone, my CW is paleological.
Jeezlies! If you looked back in the archives, I ran VK3ZZZ for a month in 86(?).
The year that EXPO was in Brisbane. I hauled a 2M rig to Melb and back.
I have very fond memories of all the contacts I made over the years on 15. Why 15? I do not know. Not the vomit of 20. Not the faint echoes of 10, I suppose.
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9th February 2013, 08:43 PM #8
Well well, you never know who's around do you...
I been tinkering on and off with home brew stuff some 70cm some 1296Mhz and of course 2m since the 1970's... doesn't seem that long though
Good to know there are a few of us fellow hams hanging out here...
73's de VK3YNV
Ray
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11th February 2013, 01:49 PM #9Senior Member
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You'll find me lurking on 10m FM......yeah yeah I know, we're all different
Full call VK1 here.So many ideas........so little skill........
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11th February 2013, 04:32 PM #10Intermediate Member
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I have a new antenna on the way.
Need to figure out the mast fixing & get the coax into the shack & I'll be ready to go.
15m was my favorite band back in the novice days, reached all over the world with it.
10m was too flaky & 80 was just for Australia.
Looking forward to getting back on the airwaves.
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12th February 2013, 11:33 AM #11GOLD MEMBER
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Years ago, I lived in the city. Me and another ham decided to have a little cross-town CW laser QSO. Two good laser pointers. Two rifle scopes with detectors with reasonable gain, hooked into the lounge room stereo. Tape the pointer to the scope. We discovered the approximate part of the sky where we could both see the same cloud. Don't even remember the designated code for that transmission type. Worked best in the evening. Hit & miss at night and must have been too weak for daytime.
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14th February 2013, 10:30 AM #12
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Another wacky idea . During WW2 the German army used a modulated light beam system for communications , it was line of sight and it worked . Not sure if it was for code or voice but a chap in Norway has one in his collection . link below ..Mike
GERMAN, WWII, WW2, Lichtsprechgerät 80/80
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14th February 2013, 10:38 AM #13
It was for voice Mike (sprech=speech)
Some more info here
lichtsprecher LiSpr80
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14th February 2013, 01:45 PM #14GOLD MEMBER
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morrisman, thanks for the links. As there's a transmission mode listed for that here in Canada, I didn't think that we were really pushing back the frontiers of science.
wacky?
Maybe so. BUT, the American Armed Forces have been using point-to-point IR laser communications for decades. Can't be seen, can't be intercepted without revelation.
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14th February 2013, 03:13 PM #15Senior Member
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Those where the Days
CQ CQ CQ
This takes me back to 70's, I was studying electronics so I could repair the electronic organ my wife played.
The instructor was keen on AR so radio was often included.
I sat for my N call and then full.
The joys of 15 metres into Japan on a dipole when Spain came through off the back.
Great to see this group up and running
73's Barry
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