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Title: Anyone Know K2HNV ???? Post by: Carl WA1KPD on December 05, 2009, 02:51:33 PM Bought a neat HB mobile rig off of ebay. The VFO dial is hand drawn and has the call K2HNV on it.
A web search does not come up with anything except that the call is available. Anybody have an old call book or know of him? Thanks and 73 Carl /KPD Title: Re: Anyone Know K2HNV ???? Post by: KB1IAW on December 05, 2009, 03:15:32 PM Hi Carl, I did a search on this site (below) and found that the call sigh was issued to Donald W. Keller, New Hartford, NY in 1984 and it expired in 1994
That's a cool piece! Hope you find more info about the builder. http://www.hamcall.net/call?callsign=k2hnv Title: Re: Anyone Know K2HNV ???? Post by: K1ZJH on December 05, 2009, 03:29:10 PM That "issue date" is probably more likely to be a renewal date. At
least it was when I ran my call through the database. That would be a very old original call if it hadn't ever been reissued. Pete k1zjh Title: Re: Anyone Know K2HNV ???? Post by: kb3ouk on December 05, 2009, 03:47:30 PM What's the piece accross the top for? I see a switch on it. Could that be some kind of light?
Shelby KB3OUK Title: Re: Anyone Know K2HNV ???? Post by: Carl WA1KPD on December 05, 2009, 04:01:23 PM What's the piece accross the top for? I see a switch on it. Could that be some kind of light? Shelby KB3OUK It is several light bulbs Transmitter seems to be a single band version of "Twenty-Five Watts Under the Dash" from Aug 1954 QST. A 2E26 modulated by a 1635 Title: Re: Anyone Know K2HNV ???? Post by: kb3ouk on December 05, 2009, 04:10:04 PM I have a 1953 or 54 handbook with a rig like that in. May be the same rig.
Title: Re: Anyone Know K2HNV ???? Post by: W1UJR on December 05, 2009, 04:19:56 PM New Hartford, NY is near Utica.
Here is the URL for the Utica ham club, one of them may have a lead -->>http://www.uticaarc.org/ Googled the name, a Don Keller retired from the Utica School system after 29 years of service as the operations manager - sounds like a good job for ham. May or not be the same guy. The fact the call has expired may not be a good sign, older hams usually kept their call active as a point of pride, they had to work quite hard to earn it, wonder if your friend may be a SK. Title: Re: Anyone Know K2HNV ???? Post by: WB3LEQ on December 05, 2009, 04:41:50 PM I did a birds eye view of 101 Davis Pl,13413 (from my 1979 callbook) and in one picture it looks like there was possibly a tower base in the center of the backyard in the direction of an out building.
Title: Re: Anyone Know K2HNV ???? Post by: W1UJR on December 05, 2009, 04:53:05 PM You always find the cool stuff Old Man! AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
Most buzzardly looking rig, how does it get HV, from dynomotor? Fone I see, CW as well? Think I may have found more on your friend, see below. May be an answer here -->> http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ssdi/doc/ssdi/v1:112F07DAF43A98B0 |