Subj : Re: BBS'ing and HAM Radio
To : Holger Granholm
From : Ed Vance
Date : Sat Dec 08 2018 05:01 pm
12-07-18 12:39 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: BBS'ing and HAM
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Howdy! Holger,
HG> @MSGID: <
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HG> In a message on 12-06-18 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:
HG> GD Ed,
GA
EV> In my previous message I asked if the audio for Your RIG was AM,
EV> in thinking about it I remembered when I used 2 M Packet my RIG was
EV> set for FM. Duh. Sorry for the dumb question earlier.
HG> The detector of course detects the signal and how you want to process
HG> it further is up to you.
When I saw the word 'detector' I thought of the RX portion of the XCVR.
Where I wrote AM or FM I was thinking about the TX section.
Balanced Modulator or something like that.
-snip-
HG> AM isn't used in these woods. To use the rig as a 70cm transceiver the
HG> mode is of course FM.
Before the Kenwood TR-9130 went belly up, I used it on FM, SSB and CW.
Can't remember if it had AM for a Mode or not.
My other 2 M rig is a Regency HR-2.
Once in a while I will turn it on but haven't heard anyone talking, so it
probably needs some work on it.
All of my Radio Gear is in the basement, if ever I hear someone on the
Regency I will bring it up to this room so I can hear what is going on.
I havr XTALs for .46 and .52 Simplex in it.
Some years ago I heard some Repeaters in My area couldn't be accessed without
sending a Tone to use them, so I may not be able to access a Repeater anymore
if all of them got that modification.
I've read that that 'feature' is used where two Repeaters are near each
other to only accept the Tone that sites RX has installed in it, to cut
down Interference.
I got the Regency in the mid-1970's and remember one Club Repeater was
using a Frequency in the 147 MC range but the repeater was set up like
Repeaters using the 146 MC section of the Band - RX Low, TX Hi.
I was listening to it one afternoon and heard Hams in another City 50 Miles
away talking.
A local Ham started talking to the caller and learned that the other Repeater
was using the "Band Plan" for 147 MC of RX Hi, TX Low.
The Club here put new XTALS in their Repeater so the two Repeaters didn't
interfere with each other.
When the Kenwood 2 M XCVR worked I remember one Frequency was called a
"Wide Area" Repeater Frequency and I heard Stations in Ohio on that Freq.
EV> Would the Magazines December issue include a Yearly Index?
HG> Depending on the magazine, the index may be either in the december or
HG> january issue. The trick is of course to know which year.
If You have Your magazines stacked in order grab the December and January
issues for several years back and see if a Indes is provided.
Popular Electronics (or was it called Electronics World) had a Index,
the other magazine Radio-Electronics printed an note that they would send
a Index if You asked for it each year. (there might had been a small cost?)
EV> Search on DuckDuckGo for the URL for the CQ DL and UKW Beriche
HG> Try 'VHF communications' instead of UKW Berichte.
Thank You!, I haven't found My ROUNDTUIT to do that Search yet but will have
a look-see...........
EV> Last month in another BBS Network echo on this BBS I noticed some CW
EV> in the Signature of a message, so I wrote a message to let the
EV> fellow know that I saw the CW that said the Name of His BBS in His
EV> message.
HG> All repeaters here sign their callsign with morse.
I remember hearing the CW ID, I'm thinking I've heard one of them have
a Voice ID, not sure.
I wasn't writing about a Repeater ID, it was the Signature at the end
of the messages a SysOp wrote in a BBS echo.
HG> CU AGN, Sam, OH0NC
HG> aka Holger
HG> .. I know the answer, as long as you ask the right question.
That's the problem with Me, I don't always phrase my question correctly.
CU LTR 73 de Ed W9ODR . .
... On the Train of thought, 99% are riding for half fare!
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