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 | W4RNL LB Cebik Silent Key |
 L.B. Cebik, well known Amateur antenna expert and author of many texts and books on antennas has passed away. W4RNL's published writings helped hams at all levels of understanding and it seems not a day goes by that I do not get referred back to something he has written regarding virtually any antenna I research or build.
Cebik gave much to the Amateur community and in the true spirit of ham radio, asked nothing in return other than the favor of passing on what you've learned to another ham. So the next time you read or refer to one of his articles, you should ask yourself: "What have I done lately to help the new guys learn this stuff"? Through his actions and writings, Cebik was (and always will be) a great Elmer (someone who helps new hams get started). Are you a good Elmer?
73 OM - hope to see you down the log.
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Posted by billbill on Thursday, February 28 @ 09:58:23 EST (5292 reads)
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| Antenna Specialists Ball Mount Template |
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If you are building your own mobile low band antenna system from parts you might be lucky enough to find one of the old Antenna Specialists Swivel Ball Mounts such as the ASC-3D or ASC-13D (and lucky enough to have a car it would look good on) you might need a template to use for drilling the mounting holes for the ball mount.
You can find a copy of a template for both models mentioned above in searchable PDF format in the downloads section- (more)
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Posted by billbill on Tuesday, December 05 @ 19:38:29 EST (3089 reads)
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| Novices in the Summer of 1979 |
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In the summer of 1979 my friend Kenny Woods and I were both sixteen years old. I was bitten by the Amateur Radio bug at the age of 13 (thanks to my Dad- KC4KM, ex KA4AIT). Kenny and I were best friends and he also gained an interest in the hobby and got his novice ticket. I had recently moved from the community of Cradock in Portsmouth, Virginia to Virginia Beach- so we were both excited about the prospects of keeping in touch via ham radio. Ken?s call was KA4HMI; mine was N4BKT.
Ken had bought a used HW-16 transceiver and we scrounged up a couple crystals from a few of our other ham friends in the Tidewater area. Now that he had a rig, it was time to assemble an antenna- in those days no one thought to BUY a dipole- it?s just a piece of wire after all. (In fact, after leaving the hobby for about ten years- I thought a G5RV was some new model Hy-Gain Trap Vertical- who would BUY a dipole, after all). Since we were both teenagers, we had no budget at all. We got a roll of wire and some RG-58U from Radio Shack and built an inverted V antenna for 40M using a piece of wood as a center insulator. We hoisted it up to Ken?s second story window and stretched the legs out across the yard. We had the antenna reasonably close in length but we had a problem- neither of use had a SWR meter. How would we tune the antenna? Another of our ham friends suggested we use a 60 watt light bulb. It would take two people to tune the antenna this way, but we decided to give it a try ? we certainly had the time.
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Posted by billbill on Friday, December 09 @ 07:39:52 EST (5850 reads)
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| SB-33 E-Book Manual |
Hi Guys,
I just finished polishing up the manual for the SBE SB-33. I had six 8.5 by 11 (A4) sized pieces with ragged edges, some small portions missing, and 40 years worth of use to start with. I scanned the text and used OCR to convert the images to ASCII text, then I stitched all the images together for the illustrations.
I considered just buying a manual copy but given the fact that the original was one huge piece of paper, I knew I would be getting six individual pieces that would likely be taped together. Aside from that, I intend to use the rig mobile so I wanted to have something that I could take with me.
The answer for me was to put the SB-33 Operating and Service manual in e-book format. That way I could take it with me in my Pocket PC and view it with the Microsoft Reader for Pocket PC. I can always have the manual in my pocket now.
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Posted by billbill on Tuesday, May 10 @ 18:35:00 EDT (3410 reads)
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