Subj : Re: Storage To : Mike Luther From : Holger Granholm Date : Mon Jul 21 2014 09:44 am In a message dated 07-20-14, Mike Luther said to Holger Granholm: Hi Mike, HG> The musical sound of a CQ is among the first letter combination you HG> learn. There are however several different learning methods based on HG> different theories. I'm not shure any more but IRC the course I started HG> before being called in to military duty started with the EISH5 letters. Even though I later in my life pioneered SSB in Finland and Aland Islands I'm still a morse addict. I have built transmitters for AM, FM and SSB and receivers and add ons to both types. ML> power on 40 meter CW from a 6L6 to an 807, then to an 811 and up to ML> the first 4-250. In the beginning of my ham career 50 Wo was the limit so I started with the combo 6F6 - 807 on an old tube receiver chassis. Later that power limit was raised so I started to build a 4' rack with a hefty PS at the bottom floor, next up was to be an AM modulator with 2x807 and on top a 4-65A PA. In the mean time I had built an SSB exciter and suddenly an AM modulator wasn't an interesting prospect anymore so it was never built. Then the power limit was raised to 1 kW PEP and we moved to other living quarters and the 4' rack became junk and I bought a Heathkit HA-14 PA and the AC supply HP-23. Now that one is removed from duty since the tubes (2x572B) have suffered from overdriving on mainly RTTY. My main rig today is a Drake TR-7 plus an assortment of VHF/UHF/SHF rigs ML> I was curious; how low power could I go and he would still be able ML> to hear me? We did a 'little' experiment. ML> I got down to ONE WATT output power. ML> HE COULD STILL HEAR ME! ML> Both of us were totally shocked! After we parted company in that ML> QSO, I was so stunned with what I had learned however I realized I'd ML> better get ready for my morning newspaper boy run on my Cushman Yes, miracles do happen, hi. ML> But interestingly, even Fido can still do a very important honorable ML> job of caring for people and carrying even all of us upward in life ML> without poking people in the side. Even back to ring level and ML> interrupt level code that can Dis And Dat even all over the whole ML> Earth for thousands of people to hear in good weather. At even a ML> watt or two of power. From Ham Radio remote sites on CW even on a ML> few watts around the world. If you want it to. And the HAARP ain't ML> playing, chuckle. Or the Chemtrails ain't moosing the Ions around ML> our Sphere. Yes, Fido is very important but it also shares its use with other duties and hobbies. ML> Mike Luther N117C at 1:117/100 For a moment I thought that you had a new call sign, maybe you do have. The one I recall was W5WQN and I haven't read anywhere that USA would have started using the N1 prefix. 73 de Sam, OH0NC aka Holger ___ * MR/2 2.30 * Actually, that *is* a banana in my pocket... --- PCBoard (R) v15.22 (OS/2) 2 * Origin: Coming to you from the Sunny Aland Islands. (2:20/228) .