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Purpose: building and operating vacuum tube-based QRP rigs
Subject: glowbugs V1 #115
glowbugs Friday, September 19 1997 Volume 01 : Number 115
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:31:27 -0700
From: Jim Haynes <haynes@cats.ucsc.edu>
Subject: 715 tubes
Now and then somebody asks what a 715 is for, and the usual answer is that
it is a radar modulator - stands very high voltage when cut off and
conducts very large current when biased into conduction.
Last night at the computer museum I noticed that four of the 715 tubes
were used in the scope display for SAGE. I don't know what they do in
the circuit; but I would presume they are in the deflection amplifier.
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 17:33:26 -0700
From: Walt Turansky <turansky@xroads.com>
Subject: Re: Call for GB topics
Conard,
I think it is a great idea! It's starting to cool down in PHX (about 100
today) so I can start thinking about getting out into the garage workshop.
Topics I can think of are:
Regen receiver
Universal VFO (xtal replacement)
Self excited Hartley
Dow ECO
Big Bertha Radiomarine look alike
Single tube xtal xmitter
At 04:56 PM 9/17/97 -0500, you wrote:
> Hello gals and guys,
>I would really like to see some organized activity within the GB community
>this winter. How about a topic for each month from October to March?
>Something like October is regen receiver month followed by November as
>self-excited Hartley month ... these are just examples ..... I want
>suggestions from everyone.
>During each month those interested will attempt to build and operate an
>example of the featured circuit with the help and encouragement of the
>entire list. Maybe some interested parties will volunteer to sponsor a
>circuit type and offer a prize to the top performer ...?
>If this works out like I want it to we will get some great discussion going
>on a new topic every month as well as some great operating experiences .....
>that's what it's all about, right?
>What'cha all think?
>73,
>ZUT,
>de Conard WS4S
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73 de N7QFN,
Walt
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 00:26:28 -0700
From: "Paul Carreiro, N6EV" <carreiro@barepower.net>
Subject: N6EV Glowbug Web Site back up / updated
Hello fellow Glowbuggies..
My ISP troubles seem to be solved for now so have put the Glowbugs site back
on the air. I've also updated the page with a few new items.
First, on an experimental basis (which is what we do best right?) I've created
a Glowbugs Web Chat page. This will give the ability for live chat amoung
those who are connected to the page. Depending on activity, you may or may
not run into anyone. I suggest trying near or on the top of the hour. I'll
try to check in as much as I can. Unfortunately, there is a 10 minute auto-
logout with no activity, so you can't just connect and walk away. Send a few
characters from time to time and you'll hang in there. If this does not pan
out, I'll delete it from the page. As always.. your comments are welcome,
pro or con.
Second, I've started a project of copying sections from the ARRL handbook onto
the web page with scanned diagrams. The sections I plan on including will
include the basic building block circuit sections. The project sections are
represented with schematics / parts lists only in the individual year web
(1957 and 1961 currently on line). To start, I've reproduced the "Crystal
Oscillators" section from the 1968 handbook. These sections are retyped,
with the associated tube circuit diagrams scanned in and linked. I'll slowly
add sections as time permits. Please indicate if you have a desired section
that you would like to see put on the page. Also indicate what year (approx)
that you want. I'll try to find the most up-to-date tube related info from
the handbooks.
Third, thanks to the folks over on QSL.NET, I've secured some web space there.
This will allow me to add more, without worrying about space limitations on
my ISP (I've hit the limit). The Glowbugs page URL will remain unchanged to
avoid confusion and existing links. But don't be suprised if when you select
a hyperlink, it routes over to QSL.NET.
In the near future, I'll add a photo section. So if you have a picture of
anything you'd like posted, please forward it to me.
All comments on the page are appreciated. See below for the top level URL.
73 till next time.
Paul N6EV
Paul F. Carreiro - N6EV - ex-N6HCS - El Camino Village, CA
E-Mail: carreiro@barepower.net - http://www.barepower.net/~carreiro/
QRP - Boatanchors - Glowbugs - Mobile CW - QRQ +45WPM - ZUT!
SCQS #1 - NorCal #367 - QRP-L #236 - QRP ARCI #8885 - FISTS #1407
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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:28:47 +0200
From: Jan Axing <janax@li.icl.se>
Subject: Re: Call for GB topics
Conard Murray wrote:
>
> Hello gals and guys,
> I would really like to see some organized activity within the GB community
> this winter. How about a topic for each month from October to March?
It sounds like a good idea. I've already started the glowbug season on
my
own, September belongs to the "dark" season over here with 8 C this
morning.
My vote for topics are:
October as the Month of the Regennys
November for the Hartleys
then we'll see.
Jan, SM5GNN
(who has started the boiler for the season... Brr.)
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:02:55 -0500
From: Conard Murray <cfm5723@tntech.edu>
Subject: Fw: Call for GB topics
- -----Original Message-----
From: Dexter Francis <cwest@xmission.com>
To: Conard Murray <cfm5723@tntech.edu>
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 1997 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: Call for GB topics
>Conard -
>
>That sounds like great fun. Sort of a kit of the month.
>Please drop by my web page and see if any of the tubes there
>may be useful. I'd be gald to offer special pricing for other
>GB list members who are doing the monthly projects.
>
>Please forward this to the list, as all my replies to the server
>are bouncing at the moment.
>
>-df
>
>-----------------------Visit our Web site at-------------------------
> http://www.xmission.com/~cwest/
> or e-mail to: tubes@usa.net
>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 15:08:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: rdkeys@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu
Subject: The passing of a bit of radio history.....
With some sadness, I want to QSP the passing of a local ham, of some historical
merit, this past July. He was Irving Strobing/N4FLW. He lived a few miles
up the road from us in Raleigh, and is noted for being the Army op who sent
the last messages out of Corrigedor before its fall, in WWII. The historical
aspects were well covered in an in-depth article in American Heritage, about
15 years back. The plight was used quite effectively in propaganda, during
the war, and there were some recorded re-enactments of those last messages from
the Malinta Tunnel. Back in 1995, W4TIM and I put on a historical display
commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII, with more OT boatanchors
than you could shake a stick at, at the NC Museum of History, and we made
it a special treat to invite Irving along, for some commentary. He even
brough along a book of photos from that era. He was a quiet gentleman,
with a nice CW fist, the time or two I worked him on CW, and he was always
around on 2M for some discussions. Although he was not one to make much
flap about those times, his narrative of the fall of Corregidor, and the
voyage to Japan in a rustbucket freighter, packed standing room only, with
the following years in a pow camp, were something you had to hear, firsthand,
to really appreciate. Although, we talked several times about those days,
I don't remember what the exact boatanchor equipment was that he used to
send those final messages, but, if I am not mistaken, they were sent in CW.
If you ever run across that American Heritage article on the fall of
Corregidor, it is something you will most definitely want to read, for sure.
Irving was one of those interesting little tidbits of radio history, that
we will all miss. QST has him in the SK section, this month.
RIP/73/ZUT IRV VA
DE NA4G UP
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 10:21:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: EWoodman@aol.com
Subject: TNT Transmitter
Can someone give me a description of the TNT transmitter from the 1932
Handbook?
Tnx and 73 Eric KA1YRV
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