Subj : Re: HA-24/HA-14?
To : Holger Granholm
From : Ed Vance
Date : Tue Jul 08 2014 12:41 am
07-06-14 09:36 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: HA-24/HA-14?
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HG> In a message dated 07-04-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:
HG> GM Ed,
EV> even though TNX has a real nice rythym to it as it is being sent.
HG> While contesting on VHF in the early 70's I started to send GL
HG> to my competitors after a finished contest exchange. To day I
HG> hear many CW qso's on the HF bands also wishing GL (GoodLuck)
HG> to each other but that shorthand hasn't yet reached the ARRL's
HG> RAHB.
GM Holger,
It may be that there aren't many CW Ops on the Staff at The League to
have heard GL on the CW Bands. <GRIN>
Their CW Bulletins etc. might just be developed from the Text entered
on a computer and they use a program to change that text to CW, RTTY
and maybe even their Vocal Bulletin Broadcasts.
(Remark: I never have heard a Voice Transmission from W1AW.)
EV> On evening when the Net Control Operator (NCS) was someone who has
EV> been in Amateur Radio since the 1930's?, instead of normally sending
EV> ._. to acknowledge what he told me to do, I sent _ . _. ...._ to
EV> him, just as a joke.
HG> I have ceased to translate your dashes and dots since I don't
HG> want to guess what letter it is that you try to implement.
Sorry for the confusion Holger.
Instead of sending R to him I sent TEN4 .
EV> Is the RF Amp still used?
HG> I have previously stated that the tubes are finished, probably
HG> due to overdriving the PA with a Drake TR-4c. Consequently it
HG> isn't used.
Sorry, my remember'er didn't retain the info about the Finals going
Belly Up, that You wrote earlier.
HG> why not HP-14 ? Well, after sifting through the manual I found
HG> out that the mobile PS was named HP-14.
EV> The Power Supply for their SB- series is named HP-23, so I suppose
EV> they just incremented the number One Digit for the AC Power Supply
EV> for their KW Kompact RF Amp.
HG> Please note what I stated above, "the mobile PS is named HP-14"
Sorry again, I was thinking about the AC Power Supply (see above) not
the DC Power Supply when I made my comment.
I wasn't thinking (or remembering) You used it Mobile, I was thinking
it was used at the Home QTH.
And as You wrote, the Mobile PS for the HA-14 KW Kompact is a HP-14 in
the Heathkit 1967 catalog.
I don't know when Heathkit started selling the HA-14 and HP-14, but I
remembered while I was in the Navy at a Base in California in the Fall
of 1962, listening to a 80M QSO where one of the Hams Signed Off from
the Round Table QSO because he had arrived at home, and then later
rejoined the QSO from his home Ham Shack.
He told them he had turned the Trucks ignition switch OFF and was
listening for his turn to Sign Off, and when he Signed Off the Kilowatt
RF Amplifier he had in his truck was still turned ON.
He said that after he turned off his Mobile Radio Gear he tried to
Start the Truck but the Battery wouldn't crank the Starter, his Few
Seconds of saying 73 when he Signed Off Drained his Battery and he
would have to go out and put a Battery Charger on it now.
Probably he was using a Heathkit HA-14 with a HP-14.
I'm not going to go looking through that stack of Heathkit Catalogs for
one printed as far back as 1962, I wasn't out of the Service until
December 1962 and I don't know if I have a 1963 catalog or not.
The stack of Ham Radio stuff is too big for me to go looking through
them again, I've got other things to do.
73
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