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From: "Dave G4GED" <daves_shack@tiscali.co.uk>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:22:05 +0100
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Ken,
I just had to congratulate you.
State of the art technology it may not be but it's tops for State of the art 
Ingenuity.!
It works dosn't it and we're in this for amusement arn't we? Thats what 
matters.
Well Done, I say.!
73 Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken" <ken.h.wright@btinternet.com>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 4:21 PM
Subject: LF: Re: LF RadCom Articles


> Hello All LFers
> I just thought that I would add my two pennyworth to the debate regarding 
> RadCom 500kHz constructional articles. There must be many of us who design 
> and build our own equipment, but do not submit it for possible publication 
> because, state of the art technology it is not, the design is not 
> particularly elegant, and the Technical Editor and the more accomplished 
> contributors would fall over laughing when they saw it. But most of these 
> projects are practical and they work. I work on the KISS (Keep It Simple 
> Stupid) principle, don't use three components when one will work just as 
> well. My 500kHz TX does not have any fancy CW sidetone circuit on 
> transmit, just a piezo buzzer wired across the keyed 12v line to the 
> driver board, the most complicated bit is the LCL output stage, which 
> delivers 23W into a 50ohm dummy load and 900mA up the antenna, the TX/RX 
> switching is like the old days, a simple toggle switch.
> On the subject of circuit symbols, for the Admiralty, resistors had to 
> have a set number of points on the zig zag, wires crossed using bridges, 
> and capacitors were called Jars.
> I am now preparing to travel to China to view the Total Solar Eclipse on 
> the 1st of August, when I return I expect to find messages calling for me 
> to be burnt at the stake for such heresy.
>
> 73
>
> Ken Wright
> M0KHW
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Dennison" <mike.dennison@ntlworld.com>
> To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:48 AM
> Subject: Re: LF: satellites/RadCom
>
>
>> As Managing Editor of RadCom in the 1990s (and having worked in the
>> RadCom office as a freelance temp for several months recently) I can
>> confirm the comments by Rik and Alan that the content is very much
>> governed by what members send in. The Editor is always desperate for
>> good (preferably simple) construction articles, but very few are
>> submitted despite numerous requests. Efforts have been made to
>> include regular construction columns, such as the excellent new one
>> by Andy, G4JNT.
>>
>> A specialist interest column is included only when an individual is
>> prepared to write it regularly. Thanks to Dave, G3YXM, LF is
>> represented. Perhaps someone from the satellite fraternity could make
>> a similar commitment.
>>
>> There was a good response when I asked for 500kHz construction
>> projects for my book LF Today. There should be no shortage of
>> potential contributors to RadCom on this subject. You even get paid
>> for your troubles.
>>
>> Solution. Don't grumble here (waste of time). Instead write to the
>> Editor with your views. Better still, offer to write a column or one-
>> off construction article.
>>
>> Mike, G3XDV
>> ===========
>>
>>
>
>
>