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Post by No Streak on Jun 17, 2015 9:11:06 GMT -5
We had really good skip conditions last night with Murphy and Nightranger both being heard locally. Not sure if that will repeat tonight for CRR as the cold front made it through. Ah, nice cool clear bright blue sky with a low of 59 degrees this morning. Yes that was a Big change from yesterday's heat. Didn't get chance to get in there yesterday I missed out dang it!
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Post by whitetail on Jun 24, 2015 6:57:58 GMT -5
I cant wait for the roundup tonight! I will hopefully be in there from NW PA. 958
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Post by Night Ranger on Jun 24, 2015 9:07:34 GMT -5
I have had good skip conditions to Pennsylvania three nights in a row. Lets hope it stays that way for the C.R.R.
I heard "1/4 Wave Dave" for a little while yesterday afternoon, but then the Pottstown area must have gone quiet. I still had plenty of Pennsylvania stations on channel 12 as well as other channels. I could hear mobiles running around on an interstate somewhere up north for several hours, but I'm not sure where they were. I also talked to someone in Lancaster, PA and New York and Canada was coming in as well.
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Post by No Streak on Jun 24, 2015 14:08:38 GMT -5
After yesterday's storm I'm surprised my antenna is still up!
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Post by "Doc"Hammer on Jun 24, 2015 18:11:21 GMT -5
Am out at the lake for this evening's roundup...hopefully there's some conditions tonight..Midland 13-880b and the 2x1446 "Hammer Built" providing the high quality audio..Now all I need is a bit of "Mother Nature"..It's sunny and 104 here...Thank god I'm camped in the shade of a cottonwood grove! Motorvan is pointed Northeast...
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Post by No Streak on Jun 24, 2015 18:37:20 GMT -5
Am out at the lake for this evening's roundup...hopefully there's some conditions tonight..Midland 13-880b and the 2x1446 "Hammer Built" providing the high quality audio..Now all I need is a bit of "Mother Nature"..It's sunny and 104 here...Thank god I'm camped in the shade of a cottonwood grove! Motorvan is pointed Northeast... Nice old school travel trailer Doc Hammer.
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Post by whitetail on Jun 24, 2015 20:28:17 GMT -5
I didnt have any luck at all this week for the roundup. I did hear someone calling spitfire, tried to get back but no go. Also herd someome say radio roundup several times. Conditions were strange as for they were not on our side. I stayed in there to 9:15 and pulled the plug. Will try next time, !
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Post by Night Ranger on Jun 24, 2015 21:43:55 GMT -5
I didnt have any luck at all this week for the roundup. I did hear someone calling spitfire, tried to get back but no go. Also herd someome say radio roundup several times. Conditions were strange as for they were not on our side. I stayed in there to 9:15 and pulled the plug. Will try next time, ! It was dead as a door nail here. Nada. Nuttin'. Not even Spanish speaking skip from down south. Night Ranger
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Post by No Streak on Jun 25, 2015 6:05:52 GMT -5
I didnt have any luck at all this week for the roundup. I did hear someone calling spitfire, tried to get back but no go. Also herd someome say radio roundup several times. Conditions were strange as for they were not on our side. I stayed in there to 9:15 and pulled the plug. Will try next time, ! It was dead as a door nail here. Nada. Nuttin'. Not even Spanish speaking skip from down south. Night Ranger Yeah I was shouting for you all I got was Indiana back. One way basterd nice guy with the HiFi and a 500watt Eagle base.
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Post by "Doc"Hammer on Jun 25, 2015 8:38:34 GMT -5
Talked to ole "One Way" in Indiana last night, but conditions to PA weren't there....was a "different" kind of roundup last night..
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Post by No Streak on Jun 25, 2015 11:04:14 GMT -5
Talked to ole "One Way" in Indiana last night, but conditions to PA weren't there....was a "different" kind of roundup last night.. Yeah I could hear him talking to people just couldn't hear them condition were unstable to say the least. But I would have liked talking to you Doc Hammer maybe next time. Did make it to SpitFire with the help of SPEW and One Way.
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Post by BBB on Jun 27, 2015 11:06:09 GMT -5
Only really made it on CRR during the initial role call from my mud duck pick up truck on the way home from a long day, beep-beep. I did hear Mr Murphy out in St Louie say he heard Night Ranger, so I passed that info on to the locals. When I came back in around 9 pm, the folks were talking about a local operators ongoing noise issues and I'd heard enough on that subject many moons ago, so I ditched 'nuff said about that.
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Post by Sandbagger on Jun 27, 2015 18:45:31 GMT -5
Only really made it on CRR during the initial role call from my mud duck pick up truck on the way home from a long day, beep-beep. I did hear Mr Murphy out in St Louie say he heard Night Ranger, so I passed that info on to the locals. When I came back in around 9 pm, the folks were talking about a local operators ongoing noise issues and I'd heard enough on that subject many moons ago, so I ditched 'nuff said about that. I feel bad for Ron, but at some point he's going to have to do something. I think he's exhausted his options with the power company and the FCC. There are only so many times we can go 'round and 'round over the same path.....
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Post by No Streak on Jun 28, 2015 11:08:02 GMT -5
Only really made it on CRR during the initial role call from my mud duck pick up truck on the way home from a long day, beep-beep. I did hear Mr Murphy out in St Louie say he heard Night Ranger, so I passed that info on to the locals. When I came back in around 9 pm, the folks were talking about a local operators ongoing noise issues and I'd heard enough on that subject many moons ago, so I ditched 'nuff said about that. I feel bad for Ron, but at some point he's going to have to do something. I think he's exhausted his options with the power company and the FCC. There are only so many times we can go 'round and 'round over the same path..... Yeah I know the feeling I have that high speed train down my way. That throws off a carrier of 30 S units at one point on every other channel. It drives me nuts especially during Classic Radio Roundup. Funny thing it doesn't show up on USB for some reason ,LSB has the same problem AM does.
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Post by BBB on Jun 30, 2015 7:31:23 GMT -5
*Sooooo, wonder what radio I should run for CRR this week? It's a little warm for tubes. Maybe dig out the Simba, but I'll need to make a mic adapter. Already got the Console II on the shelf and that takes a 4 pin Cobra.
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Post by Sandbagger on Jun 30, 2015 8:14:47 GMT -5
*Sooooo, wonder what radio I should run for CRR this week? It's a little warm for tubes. Maybe dig out the Simba, but I'll need to make a mic adapter. Already got the Console II on the shelf and that takes a 4 pin Cobra. (*mandatory change of subject) Ah, the ever present weekly question...... just what to run on CRR? We could make it a Pearce-Simpson night, and I'll run my Simba too. Or maybe we'll do a "So, you're turning 40" night with radios made in 1975.....
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Post by No Streak on Jun 30, 2015 9:26:24 GMT -5
*Sooooo, wonder what radio I should run for CRR this week? It's a little warm for tubes. Maybe dig out the Simba, but I'll need to make a mic adapter. Already got the Console II on the shelf and that takes a 4 pin Cobra. (*mandatory change of subject) Ah, the ever present weekly question...... just what to run on CRR? We could make it a Pearce-Simpson night, and I'll run my Simba too. Or maybe we'll do a "So, you're turning 40" night with radios made in 1975..... Pace 1000b 23 channel would be my choice, or Browning Golden Eagle. I wish I still had my Pearce Simpson Bengal now that was a modulation beast! That radio was the loudest radio I ever heard without squealing. Pearce Simpson Power.
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Post by No Streak on Jun 30, 2015 9:32:29 GMT -5
*Sooooo, wonder what radio I should run for CRR this week? It's a little warm for tubes. Maybe dig out the Simba, but I'll need to make a mic adapter. Already got the Console II on the shelf and that takes a 4 pin Cobra. (*mandatory change of subject) Ah, the ever present weekly question...... just what to run on CRR? We could make it a Pearce-Simpson night, and I'll run my Simba too. Or maybe we'll do a "So, you're turning 40" night with radios made in 1975..... I think we need to draw out the Wild Card and 1 hour of SSB night! And you can run Simba on sideband as well. The roundups have been kinda light lately so you could pull it off. Just a thought for Wednesday!
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Post by Sandbagger on Jun 30, 2015 16:42:08 GMT -5
Ah, the ever present weekly question...... just what to run on CRR? We could make it a Pearce-Simpson night, and I'll run my Simba too. Or maybe we'll do a "So, you're turning 40" night with radios made in 1975..... Pace 1000b 23 channel would be my choice, or Browning Golden Eagle. I wish I still had my Pearce Simpson Bengal now that was a modulation beast! That radio was the loudest radio I ever heard without squealing. Pearce Simpson Power. 1/4-wave-Dave sounds really good on his Bengal. It's one of his best sounding radios.
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Post by No Streak on Jun 30, 2015 18:43:24 GMT -5
Pace 1000b 23 channel would be my choice, or Browning Golden Eagle. I wish I still had my Pearce Simpson Bengal now that was a modulation beast! That radio was the loudest radio I ever heard without squealing. Pearce Simpson Power. 1/4-wave-Dave sounds really good on his Bengal. It's one of his best sounding radios. Yeah not sure what board is in them but it works! I had one in the late 90's should have got rid of the thing don't know what you got till it's gone.
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 1, 2015 8:27:30 GMT -5
1/4-wave-Dave sounds really good on his Bengal. It's one of his best sounding radios. Yeah not sure what board is in them but it works! I had one in the late 90's should have got rid of the thing don't know what you got till it's gone. The PS radios use Uniden chassis. The Pace 1000B uses a board which I believe is made by NDI, and is shared with the Tram XL5
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Post by No Streak on Jul 1, 2015 9:00:41 GMT -5
Yeah not sure what board is in them but it works! I had one in the late 90's should have got rid of the thing don't know what you got till it's gone. The PS radios use Uniden chassis. The Pace 1000B uses a board which I believe is made by NDI, and is shared with the Tram XL5 Now I didn't know that because I had a Simba years ago besides being a bleed box the modulation wasn't so strong either. It was a nice looking radio and built well. It would have been to have the matching desk microphone. As far as the Pace 1000b I do like the 23 channel version better the transmission sound quality is better than the 40 channel version. But it is nice to have 40 channels on board
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 1, 2015 10:18:59 GMT -5
The PS radios use Uniden chassis. The Pace 1000B uses a board which I believe is made by NDI, and is shared with the Tram XL5 Now I didn't know that because I had a Simba years ago besides being a bleed box the modulation wasn't so strong either. It was a nice looking radio and built well. It would have been to have the matching desk microphone. As far as the Pace 1000b I do like the 23 channel version better the transmission sound quality is better than the 40 channel version. But it is nice to have 40 channels on board Yea, as much as I like Uniden products, I've come to realize that their older 23 channel designs were very prone to intermod and RF overload. They were always good talkers, but their receivers left a lot to be desired as far as battling interference from strong local signals.
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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 1, 2015 13:03:35 GMT -5
*Sooooo, wonder what radio I should run for CRR this week? It's a little warm for tubes. Maybe dig out the Simba, but I'll need to make a mic adapter. Already got the Console II on the shelf and that takes a 4 pin Cobra. (*mandatory change of subject) Ah, the ever present weekly question...... just what to run on CRR? We could make it a Pearce-Simpson night, and I'll run my Simba too. Or maybe we'll do a "So, you're turning 40" night with radios made in 1975..... This is my choice for this week. This one was a "customer return" from a store. It had a factory defect. The problem was caused by a single ceramic disk capacitor. One leg was cut too short, and it was never soldered to the board. The result was no receive. I easily found the problem and fixed it, so it is pretty much "New Old Stock". New old stock Royce 609 from 1977 Playing with the channel selector yesterday I discovered it would go to 27.045 MHz by placing the channel selector between channel 8 and 9. That tells me the PLL chip is not using ROM codes and six bit BCD. That means it should be capable of other channels as well via the programming pins. Currently it is completely stock and never peaked out. Night Ranger
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 1, 2015 13:45:16 GMT -5
Ah, the ever present weekly question...... just what to run on CRR? We could make it a Pearce-Simpson night, and I'll run my Simba too. Or maybe we'll do a "So, you're turning 40" night with radios made in 1975..... This is my choice for this week. This one was a "customer return" from a store. It had a factory defect. The problem was caused by a single ceramic disk capacitor. One leg was cut too short, and it was never soldered to the board. The result was no receive. I easily found the problem and fixed it, so it is pretty much "New Old Stock". New old stock Royce 609 from 1977 Playing with the channel selector yesterday I discovered it would go to 27.045 MHz by placing the channel selector between channel 8 and 9. That tells me the PLL chip is not using ROM codes and six bit BCD. That means it should be capable of other channels as well via the programming pins. Currently it is completely stock and never peaked out. Night Ranger Early Royce 40 channel radios used 6 bit binary PLL chips. They would go from channel 1 to channel 59 (27.595). A disappointing range, but better than a ROM coded PLL.
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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 1, 2015 15:46:01 GMT -5
This is my choice for this week. This one was a "customer return" from a store. It had a factory defect. The problem was caused by a single ceramic disk capacitor. One leg was cut too short, and it was never soldered to the board. The result was no receive. I easily found the problem and fixed it, so it is pretty much "New Old Stock". New old stock Royce 609 from 1977 Playing with the channel selector yesterday I discovered it would go to 27.045 MHz by placing the channel selector between channel 8 and 9. That tells me the PLL chip is not using ROM codes and six bit BCD. That means it should be capable of other channels as well via the programming pins. Currently it is completely stock and never peaked out. Night Ranger Early Royce 40 channel radios used 6 bit binary PLL chips. They would go from channel 1 to channel 59 (27.595). A disappointing range, but better than a ROM coded PLL. Well, as long as the PLL chip is not fast enough to directly divide the VCO frequency that leaves open the possibility of additional channels above 59 or below 1 by switching out the loop mixing crystal. Night Ranger
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 1, 2015 17:46:46 GMT -5
Early Royce 40 channel radios used 6 bit binary PLL chips. They would go from channel 1 to channel 59 (27.595). A disappointing range, but better than a ROM coded PLL. Well, as long as the PLL chip is not fast enough to directly divide the VCO frequency that leaves open the possibility of additional channels above 59 or below 1 by switching out the loop mixing crystal. Night Ranger Yea, I suppose you could do that, but why ruin a classic?
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Post by No Streak on Jul 1, 2015 18:03:05 GMT -5
Ah, the ever present weekly question...... just what to run on CRR? We could make it a Pearce-Simpson night, and I'll run my Simba too. Or maybe we'll do a "So, you're turning 40" night with radios made in 1975..... This is my choice for this week. This one was a "customer return" from a store. It had a factory defect. The problem was caused by a single ceramic disk capacitor. One leg was cut too short, and it was never soldered to the board. The result was no receive. I easily found the problem and fixed it, so it is pretty much "New Old Stock". New old stock Royce 609 from 1977 Playing with the channel selector yesterday I discovered it would go to 27.045 MHz by placing the channel selector between channel 8 and 9. That tells me the PLL chip is not using ROM codes and six bit BCD. That means it should be capable of other channels as well via the programming pins. Currently it is completely stock and never peaked out. Night Ranger Nice piece Night Ranger nothing like a classic for Classic Radio Roundup! I'm undecided myself mite just have wing it!
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 1, 2015 18:10:25 GMT -5
This is my choice for this week. This one was a "customer return" from a store. It had a factory defect. The problem was caused by a single ceramic disk capacitor. One leg was cut too short, and it was never soldered to the board. The result was no receive. I easily found the problem and fixed it, so it is pretty much "New Old Stock". New old stock Royce 609 from 1977 Playing with the channel selector yesterday I discovered it would go to 27.045 MHz by placing the channel selector between channel 8 and 9. That tells me the PLL chip is not using ROM codes and six bit BCD. That means it should be capable of other channels as well via the programming pins. Currently it is completely stock and never peaked out. Night Ranger Nice piece Night Ranger nothing like a classic for Classic Radio Roundup! I'm undecided myself mite just have wing it! My Simba is on the operating table for at least the 1st half.......
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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 1, 2015 19:08:01 GMT -5
Well, as long as the PLL chip is not fast enough to directly divide the VCO frequency that leaves open the possibility of additional channels above 59 or below 1 by switching out the loop mixing crystal. Night Ranger Yea, I suppose you could do that, but why ruin a classic? True...but I have two of them new in the box. I had one when I was age 19 through 20. Part of me wants to see what I could have done with it back then if I had known then what I know now. More than likely I'll temporarily jumper the pins just to see what it does, and then wind up leaving it stock. Night Ranger
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