After making a list of “things to do” which will take 400 years to complete, the only thing to do is add one more project.
After making a list of “things to do” which will take 400 years to complete, the only thing to do is add one more project.
After studying Ernest G. Wilson’s “Carrier Current Techniques” from the part15.us Library, I want to try his cable radio project in which a cable is driven by an exciter and one or more 100mW repeaters are located along the line.
1. about 150-feet up the hill a 10-foot mast with radials and a 100mW repeater;
2. a buried 50-ohm (RG58) cable;
3. His 5-watt Exciter, adjustable from 0-to-5-watts to compensate for cable loss.
See you in a year.
Sounds Like Fun
Best of luck to you, now i gotta go and start on one of the 5 million projects i have piling up around the house. No wait, this is the honey-do list, awww man! lol
Priority List
Rock95seven,
The honey-do list comes under the rules Part 1
Radio has to wait.
Fun and funny.
Projects
Hi Carl and Barry!
The radio projects that I am working on will
be going on for some time. It took me
(intermittently) about ten years to really
understand how to get an AM Part 15 transmitter
working and then having the signal actually
get somewhere! I think the Gates board will
be done by the time a human being sets foot
on Mars. The Mars Society (I guess that’s a
bunch of people who are really into that idea)
are predicting the year 2057 for a human to set
foot on that planet. Personally, I
think that’s way too optimistic for a manned
Mars landing and for my Gates Board completion.
I hope to have the shortwave part 15 transmitter
done around 2054, which will be my hundredth
birthday.
By the way, my wife doesn’t seem to mind if I
go to Radio Shack and get some parts, or order
some kind of electronics item, on line, or whatever.
Yup, she has no problem with me buying this stuff.
She just doesn’t let me use it.
I am considering hiding my ham radio station under
the living room couch. The Part 15 station is going
to get crammed into the back of some kitchen
cabinets. Everything will be operated by a little
transmitter located in my wrist watch. That will
be all set in 2031.
Well, if you’re still with me…
Best Wishes,
Bruce, MICRO1690/1700
New Concept
You have described a whole new concept, MICRO1700. The below the horizon part 15 station. It’s there, but you just can’t find it or see it. This isn’t a chair; it’s a transmitter. That’s no coat rack; it’s an antenna.
And imagine a wife that let’s you start but not finish. Rodney Dangerfield has been re-incarnated.
Newer Concept…
Gentlemen. Elvis has left the building. But he will be right back after these messages from our sponsors. Really. LOL.
O.K. who remembers Captain Midnight and the decoder rings? I got mine, so I’m, ahead of you all. As soon as the pungent cloud clears I’ll continue on my adventure. Ah, the 60’s.
Hi Marshall
The 60s! The space race, the British Invasion,
Frisbees, SuperBalls, and I still have my skateboard
from 1965! But my son tried to ride it and he
broke it.
I just have to mention how I got to love radio.
I will never make a post like this ever again, because,
it’s out of the scope of this board.
To make a long story short – having been born with
damaged retinas, I sort of got by with one eye until
1967 when the retina in my left (good) eye decided
to almost completely detach. It left me with nothing.
The best place to try to fix it was Boston. It was a
really bad situation and not necessarily fixable. So
I went from West Hartford, Connecticut to Boston.
It took about 8 hours of surgeries and 3 weeks lying
in one position to get some vision back and get it
stable. My parents couldn’t be there most of the time
because they just didn’t have the money.
I was 12 years old.
NOW, here’s the radio part. WMEX!!!!! 1510!!!
With my Panasonic transistor radio – I didn’t even
know the AM band went up as high as 1510!
I listened to WMEX for weeks and weeks and weeks.
I remember EVERYTHING! WMEX signed off at 1:AM.
What was I going to do? Hey, what are all of these
other stations all over the place?
So it was the Beatles and zillions of other songs all
day long and AM DXing at night. There were NO
electronics in Massachusetts General Hospital to
interfere with the radio. I heard stuff everywhere
after 1:AM.
So that’s how the love of radio started for me and
also the beginning of all the eye stuff I have mentioned
here and there. In 1968, I started my first Part 15
radio station.
The eye stuff isn’t so great. But the radio part – I
wouldn’t trade it for anything!
Bruce
MICRO1690/1700