<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6511">I agree that if the goal is just to get on the air, a modern radio is going to be the smoothest path to that goal. I'd be willing to chip into the pot to get one.</div><div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6534">Do we know if that old power supply works? It should, that tech hasn't changed in a long time.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6535"><br></div><div>Lisa<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6536"><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6537"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6541" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6540"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6539"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6538"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6542" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Bruce Campbell <phillybruce@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> amateur radio discussion <hams@lists.makerslocal.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, October 8, 2016 9:39 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ML-Hams] Latest Donation<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6543"><br><div id="yiv7758624731"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6545"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6544">There are some dirt cheep duel band radios entering onto the market from Chinese manufacturers. Why not just take up a collection and buy one. Even if we get these old radios to work, they will be a pain to use on a regular bases. We can use them for projects.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv7758624731yqt5618655600" id="yiv7758624731yqt42070"><div class="yiv7758624731gmail_extra" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6546"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv7758624731gmail_quote" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6547">On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Bruce Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:phillybruce@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:phillybruce@gmail.com">phillybruce@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv7758624731gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6550"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6549"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1476016540043_6548">I briefly went by to look at then tonight (Saturday). It looked like someone had already tried to get them working. The TM-2520A didn't have any audio as I assume someone had already determined.. I found out that tone squelch was set and I think I turned it off. Still no audio though. One of them had been opened up. I didn't mess with it. <br clear="none"></div>I will get my dummy load and power meter and head over tomorrow. I I will get the manuals from the web and (if I can find someone to let me in) see if I can get a squeak out of something. <br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv7758624731HOEnZb"><div class="yiv7758624731h5"><div class="yiv7758624731gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv7758624731gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Bruce Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:phillybruce@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:phillybruce@gmail.com">phillybruce@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv7758624731gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Leaving on vacation is unfortunate!? Enjoy your time off. <br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>Who else can I work with while you are gone? If I could get in I could set it up but it would better for the group if we did it together.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>Bruce<br clear="none"></div>KG4HLZ<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv7758624731m_-2752045896397340944HOEnZb"><div class="yiv7758624731m_-2752045896397340944h5"><div class="yiv7758624731gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv7758624731gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Jeff Cotten <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:omegix@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:omegix@gmail.com">omegix@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv7758624731gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"><div>I think so! I'll try to look for it next time I'm over there :)</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I'm unfortunately leaving next week for a 2 week vacation, so it will be a hot minute before I can interact with the equipment again :)</div></div><div class="yiv7758624731m_-2752045896397340944m_-8459290318849562761HOEnZb"><div class="yiv7758624731m_-2752045896397340944m_-8459290318849562761h5"><div class="yiv7758624731gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv7758624731gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Bruce Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:phillybruce@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:phillybruce@gmail.com">phillybruce@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv7758624731gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Jeff,<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>Have you seen anything that looks like this around the shack?<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.geocities.jp/tnc_gallery/mfj70b_1.jpg">http://www.geocities.jp/tnc_ga llery/mfj70b_1.jpg<br clear="none"></a><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv7758624731m_-2752045896397340944m_-8459290318849562761m_-9193067385088024414HOEnZb"><div class="yiv7758624731m_-2752045896397340944m_-8459290318849562761m_-9193067385088024414h5"><div class="yiv7758624731gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv7758624731gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Bruce Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:phillybruce@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:phillybruce@gmail.com">phillybruce@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv7758624731gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">There was an AX-25 TNC around there at one time. You would have all that you need for a packet station. <br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv7758624731m_-2752045896397340944m_-8459290318849562761m_-9193067385088024414m_-4666145245090446022HOEnZb"><div class="yiv7758624731m_-2752045896397340944m_-8459290318849562761m_-9193067385088024414m_-4666145245090446022h5"><div class="yiv7758624731gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv7758624731gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Kris Kirby <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kris@catonic.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:kris@catonic.us">kris@catonic.us</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv7758624731gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><span>On Sat, 1 Oct 2016, Bruce Campbell wrote:<br clear="none">
> do you know there history?<br clear="none">
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</span>WA4DXP-1 was HSVN on 145.01, WA4DXP-5 was HSVN on 145.65, both Alinco<br clear="none">
DR-1200s; I believe WA4DXP-6 was 433.8 MHz using an RCA radio. Or<br clear="none">
WA4DXP-6 was 145.65, and WA4DXP-5 was something else...<br clear="none">
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K4IQU (Dave Light) was the callsign of 146.94/34 before it had the N4HSV<br clear="none">
callsign on it. The BBS (K4BFT/K4BFT-1) had the club call as well.<br clear="none">
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144.97, 145.01, 145.05, and 145.09 were all used for 1200 bps AX.25<br clear="none">
packet radio, along with 145.65. 147.565 was used for 9600 bps packet.<br clear="none">
433.8 was 2400 bps. The maximum common rate that fits in a voice channel<br clear="none">
without 'tricks' was 2400 bps. Motorola liked 3,600 Hz using MSK for<br clear="none">
trunking. 9600 bps required access to the modulator and discriminator<br clear="none">
because 9.6KHz was outside of the audio system's 300 - 4 KHz bandwidth.<br clear="none">
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1200 bps was the shipping data rate of the TAPR TNC2; 2400 bps and 9600<br clear="none">
bps required modems be installed on a 20-pin connector in the TNC2. MFJ<br clear="none">
must have sold 10,000 of those TNC2 clones.<br clear="none">
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I refer to AX.25 1200-9600 bps as "802.11 dot slow."<br clear="none">
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But then again, I still have my KPC-9612.<br clear="none">
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Kris Kirby, KE4AHR<br clear="none">
Disinformation Architect, Systems Mangler, & Network Mismanager<br clear="none">
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