there are still a few of those "churchkey" or aligator stations down in your
neck of the woods that come out when the skip is rolling...take a listen on
27.025 when 11 and 10 meters are open and you'll notice it's still pretty
active.
there was a website up for a while that was showing the power contest
mobiles that use 27.025 for their contest channel....running many many
kilowatts from the mobile on A M.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 11:09 AM
Subject: ft 101


> Thought I'd better change the subject.  Yep, that was it, cut one very
> long brown or orange wire, that is all there was to it.  I had the whole
> matching station at one time, sb2100 amp and all.  I ran a cd base in
> those days, I was the churchkey base.  You all know what a churchkey is?
> Anyhow, I got on 19 and tried to call my brother.  Some wise ass truckers
> came on and said it was their channel, had ben quiet when I called.  I
> said I'd make my call and move on.  They kept bugging me, so I fired up
> the 101 and my 2100 amp and made my call.  Needless to say the channel was
> very quiet and clear when I was done.  Ahhh, those were the days!!
>
> For its day, the 101 was a heck of a radio.  I had a ham friend who blew
> his brand new one up.  He had gotten from a pilot who brought it over from
> HJapan for him.  Well, he wanted to wire an extra ac cord and instead of
> taking the cord apart, he just looked in the book and wired the Jones plug
> as the diagram showed.  When he plugged it in, the smoke roled.  Turns out
> the Japs number their Jones plugs backwards from the way we do.  He got
> the ribg fixed, but it was never really quite the same.
> 73s
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr
>
>
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