Yes they still make 9V batteries but they're pricey. Amazon has them in
moderate quantities for reasonable prices.
I've been able to see the moon with my light probe and a 10 power scope but
it's quite a juggling act.
I wonder if something like taptapsee could figure out if the moon is
seeable?
Would take a lot of shots of darkness.
tom Fowle WA6IVG
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 10:49:33AM -0600, Pat Byrne wrote:
> Jim,
> Came across my old light probe recently but I don't have a nine volt
> battery in the house! Do they still manufacture them?!
> I doubt that the iPhone light detector app. is sensitive enough to
> see the moon!
> PatAt 09:39 PM 1/28/2016, you wrote:
> >Pat, I have no sympathy, go dig out your old light probe and scan
> >the sky! Well, maybe it's just easier to go out and howl. Noone
> >else will know whether or not you are howling at the moon or
> >because you stubbed your toe bumbling around out there looking
> >for your light probe. 73, Jim WA6EKS
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >From: Pat Byrne <[log in to unmask]
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Date sent: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:38:35 -0600
> >Subject: Re: Update on trouble with radio:
> >
> >It's hard to tell where the damned thing is Jim. It doesn't give
> >off
> >any heat in the midwest!!At 07:37 PM 1/28/2016, you wrote:
> >Yah Pat, me too, but I bet that never stopped you from howlin at
> >the moon,
> >and you was probably pointin the wrong di rection! Ha Ha! Jim
> >WA6EKS
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Pat Byrne
> >Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 5:01 PM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Update on trouble with radio:
> >
> >If I had gotten that radio Jim, I'd have never known if the
> >display
> >was upside down or not!! Ain't we totals lucky!!
> >patAt 06:49 PM 1/28/2016, you wrote:
> >Well, at least Pat didn't get that rig, so we won't have to put
> >up him his howling at the moon! Jim WA6EKS
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >From: Colin McDonald <[log in to unmask]
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Date sent: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:37:31 -0700
> >Subject: Re: Update on trouble with radio:
> >
> >maybe he's holding it upside down? Maybe the radio came from
> >Australia
> >where everything is upside down or backwards hi hi.
> >
> >73
> >Colin
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Jim Gammon
> >Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 5:17 PM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Update on trouble with radio:
> >
> >I think he said it was reading words right to left. Maybe it's
> >written in
> >Hebrew. Jim WA6EKS
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Colin McDonald
> >Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 4:07 PM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Update on trouble with radio:
> >
> >Mike, you did say you bought it used didn't you?
> >If so, then the display issues are likely the reason it was being
> >sold
> >cheap.
> >
> >73
> >Colin, V A6BKX
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Mike
> >Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 1:42 PM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Update on trouble with radio:
> >
> >I did a full reset and the beaps came back. When the radio
> >powers up
> >sometimes the screen is backwards, letters from right to left,
> >and also
> >backwards, like the letter e would point to the left instead the
> >right,
> >and sometimes it would come up right, and then sometimes not at
> >all.
> >I am not sure why it would do that.
> >Mike
> >KD2CDU
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