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AJ7O - Dave's BC-610 had a problem so N6YW - Billy, W8VG - George and I went over and, with Billy's expertise on those hunks of iron, managed to get it back on the air.  It would appear that it has a bad fuse holder. George was returning the OSHA-non-compliant monster tuner he had modified to make a bit more accomodating on 160.  Anyway, we finished up at the Italian restaurant, as usual. 
 

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20 September 2017
 

 L-R: WQ5Q - Kelly, AJ7O - Dave, W7YAZ - Frank, W8VG - George, N6YW - BIlly, W1KSZ - Richard, WD7F - John and K0ETD - Ron.  The picture below is the same except Don is replacing WD7F.

We did it again!  This time we met at W8VG - George's QTH and a great time. WQ5Q - Kelly came down from the San Tan Valley and afterwards we headed for Baggins for a sandwich.  WA1BZQ - Bruce showed up at Baggins, couldn't make it to George's in time.
 

WA1BZQ - Bruce

Mike had been having some medical problems over the past few years with the onset of Parkinson's, however, he had been carrying around an inoperatable pulmonary aneuryism for years.  Lillian said he had trouble getting from the car to the house and she had to help him.  He went for a nap and when she went to wake him, found him.  He had sat up, put on his glasses and took one step toward the bathroom and that was it.  Sorry to see Mike go, but if you're gonna' go, that's the way to do it.  W0LTL (SK).  RIP, Mike.

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25 July 2017

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24 July 2017

Pictures and comments by W8VG - George :  This baby is a fantastic home brew project by my neighbor Ron K0ETD. Very buzzardly open rack style transmitter--RF deck on top and power supply/modulator on bottom. RF deck is 6AG7 osc driving 6146. Modulator is pair of 5881s. 80/40 bandswitching -- puts out abt 60-70 watts carrier. Finished in professional-looking hammertone with nice white labels. Ron loaned it to me for a couple days so I could put it on air and he can check it out--we're abt 4 miles apart as crow flies. Not mine to keep but he'd better get over here quick to pick it back up as I'm having too much fun! Hihi! Definitely some inspiration for my next home brew attempt.

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2 July 2017

Been a while since I posted anything.  No news is good news, right?  Well, here's the bad news.  My near 70 year old Globe King 500's modulation transformer finally gave up the ghost.  I'd been babying it for three years or more but, it finally ran out of lives.  It's at Gary Brown's and here's his pictures of the damage.  Hope to have it back in a week or so!

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18 May 2017

Dave's National NC-303

Another good meeting out at AJ7O's Corona de Tucson radio shack where we saw his NC-303 and other goodies as usual.  Too bad N7YW - Billy and K0ETD - Ron couldn't make it.  Lunch was good too!  There the pictures are in no particular order.

So, W1KSZ - Richard wasn't satisifed with his little 2015 Mercedes Hard Top Coup/Convertable, oh no, he had to go and buy this thing, a 2017 model with every bell and whistle imaginable.  I told him he had about as much use for this as he would a mistress.  Oh well. 

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28 April 2017

W8VG - George

Finally completed 811A linear project. Painted panel to match other HB gear and did some final adjustments to rf tank circuit. Now using it to beef-up my 6 watt PW rig (5763 modulated by 6AQ5s). Does 45-50 watts carrier with full modulation when I hit the "panic button" during a PW QSO. Thinking about my next project--may build cab for it--but also have a few boatanchors awaiting some TLC as well. No shortage of projects!

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27 April 2017

KJ7USA - John

Worked KJ7USA on 7.293 this afternoon and realized that he's not in the gallery.  John in active duty Navy at Pt. Magu and will retire in about 3 years, he says!  Then, he's heading for Arizona.  I see a National, a Heathkit, a HQ-170 & a HQ-180 and of course, the Valiant.  Looks like he's pretty well equiped.

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12 April 2017

It was that time again.  We had an AM meeting at AJ7O - Dave's place and after checking out his 75A-1 and other acquisitions, we had lunch at . Yeah, it's all good.  We had a guest today, K6WSC - Bill who lives on East of Dave about 4 miles showed up and got to eyeball all of us oldtimers.  N6YW - Billy and myself were invited to his QTH after lunch to check his shack.  Maybe we'll make an AMer out of this DX Contester!  Who knows?  Anyway, we had a good time as usual.

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8 April 2017

W7YAZ - Frank

Guess what!  Our man, K3YAZ - Frank, decided to join the 7-Land group, found the call W7YAZ available on the list and applied for and, voilá, he received it yesterday!  Good deal, Frank.  Now to learn to say it.  He only messed up once this morning on the 3725 group!

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28 March 2017

The RST Hamfest was a success and we had a good turnout of AMers.  WB7AM - Bob motored down on his bike and we finally had an eyeball with him.  Here's a link to the hamfest if you haven't seen all the pictures.

Here is my only acquisitiion from the hamfest, $15 and I might have got it for less, but...  It's Shure KMart Special with a noise cancelling mike you can still buy the head for $130.  Someone had built a preamp for it, and maybe it was used for that.  I replaced the defunct element with an electret capacitance mike and it needs some tweaking still.  Anyway, I like it!  Guess what the screens are for on the shelf back there.  It's to make it Kai Noah proof.

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15 March 2017

Here's that T-150 of K3YAZ's that now has a new home.  W1KSZ - Richard picked it up today at our Corona de Tucson meeting.  We had a nice group today with WA1KNX - Deano coming to Dave's at the last minute and then W7MD - Doc Damon showed at Argenziano's for lunch.  We had a good time.  How about the lamp that Frank made for Dave...nice!

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6 March 2017

A while back, K3YAZ - Frank had horse traded with me and ended up with a nice HQ-145 I had picked up at the RST Swap Meet a couple years ago.  He tweaked it and installed one of those after market frequency displays that has the Hammarlund logo and fits where the clock fits since it didn't have a clock.  He said he was thinking about selling it, so I bought it back and it works great.  Then, Frank came over the other day and aligned my HQ-180 and I decided to change my shelves so I could get it off the rolling box and off the floor.  There it is, paired with my Valiant and it's working good too. Thanks Frank!  I think my corner of the room (the blivit) is maxed out.)