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« Reply #25 on: January 29, 2007, 02:25:09 PM » |
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I've heard there are three stages: 1) Tri-weekly 2) Try weakly 3) Try...  -Charles Speaking of you, I thought the one guy in there with us on saturday was you. He was a little piss weak using an ARC-5. His call was WB3JLK!! Go figger!! |
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« Reply #26 on: January 29, 2007, 02:27:17 PM » |
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I've heard there are three stages: 1) Tri-weekly 2) Try weakly 3) Try... -Charles Shortly after that the Hawaiian disease sets in!! (L.O.N.) |
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« Reply #27 on: January 29, 2007, 03:37:11 PM » |
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Speaking of you, I thought the one guy in there with us on saturday was you. He was a little piss weak using an ARC-5. His call was WB3JLK!! Go figger!!
That is an amazing almost-coincidence Definitely wasn't me though... the ARC-5 stuff is in Missouri and I'm freezing my butt off in northern Maine since Jan. 8th where it was a moderately nippy -16F again this morning. The high hasn't been over +15 in a week! What was he running for a modulator? I homebrewed a screen modulator setup but there's only about 10W carrier output with that rig. I'll be back in MO next week and might give it a try, especially if I get the bugs worked out of my 4-125A amplifier. 225W of carrier shouldn't be nearly as PW  Shortly after that the Hawaiian disease sets in!! (L.O.N.) That, and C.R.S  -Charles |
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« Reply #28 on: January 31, 2007, 02:03:37 AM » |
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Hi guys...
Wow. What venom. It was only a simple, "sorta" civil question.
But I'll add detail to my reaction to what I heard.
Starting from...
1) The HF spectrum is pretty much unused by commercial interests.
2) The ham bands are in a state where there's not all the much activity.
3) No-code generals are about to make their presence know.
Now...
All of the comments re: "how to make a great sounding radion" are exactly right on and are expertly expressed.
Some other comments are, well, shall we say driven by other, less noble motivations.
OK...
Here's the question behind the original question...
Those guys talking about subtle differences...totally cool...but...
All of the signals had outstanding technical characteristics, as do most.
So I'm asking, given that you guys have put together such outstanding transmitters....
(Yea, and it's ham radio...but...)
Why do you waste the hardware and time spent to make your signals so outstanding just to demonstrate how much you know?
Why not use your outstanding signals to discuss stuff that actually means something?
Or is the only world you know the technical realm of the subtle differences between this or that mic, or this or that processor?
That's not that much different that "hi-fi sidebanders" discussing their "appliances."
Cool, you know a bunch of good stuff, and that's acknowledged. But give me a break...that's definitely not the future of the HF amateur spectrum.
It seems to me that the new no-code generals are gonna make the AM window a LOT more interesting to listen to.
Ah, well...73, guys...
BTW...one of you guys still owes me (after about 14 years) for a negative carrier. No, not a 180 degree out of phase signal, something that goes in an enlarger. You know who you are.
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« Reply #29 on: January 31, 2007, 05:11:48 AM » |
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Why not use your outstanding signals to discuss stuff that actually means something? I don't see the list from you that I requested. |
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« Reply #30 on: January 31, 2007, 07:00:11 AM » |
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Typical Flame Phishing from someone who is not on the air. I guess it is called trolling. Why not use your outstanding signals to discuss stuff that actually means something? Why not use your outstanding ability to disrupt and discuss stuff that actually contributes to the AM community? The question asked is one of two things. Either Paul has no idea what the AM community is all about ( we know he knows because he was actually on the air at one time) or he wanted to raise a few of you as he has successfully done. And you guys bought into it  |
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« Reply #31 on: January 31, 2007, 07:39:45 AM » |
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Why not use your outstanding signals to discuss stuff that actually means something?
Why should I ?( I like phishing G !) |
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« Reply #32 on: January 31, 2007, 08:08:06 AM » |
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« Reply #33 on: January 31, 2007, 08:26:31 AM » |
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Typical Flame Phishing from someone who is not on the air. I guess it is called trolling. Oh.
I guess Frank/GFZ was right.Sometimes it is fun to poke the hornets nest and run OK, never mind.
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« Reply #34 on: January 31, 2007, 12:11:34 PM » |
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You already did!
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« Reply #35 on: January 31, 2007, 01:37:04 PM » |
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There are many different colors and fonts in this thread.
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« Reply #36 on: January 31, 2007, 02:45:03 PM » |
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There are many different colors and fonts in this thread.
Really? -Charles |
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« Reply #37 on: January 31, 2007, 05:33:40 PM » |
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The Green Family:
Fonts and Colors are Good
Fonts and Colors are Good
Fonts and Colors are Good
Fonts and Colors are Good
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« Reply #38 on: January 31, 2007, 06:38:20 PM » |
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There are many different colors and fonts in this thread.
Yeah, and wazzup with the large fonts ? Is that like when some guys use heel lifts in their shoes hoping they'll be taken more seriously ? |
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« Reply #39 on: January 31, 2007, 07:34:19 PM » |
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Us old guys appreciate the larger fonts. Wait until you eyes go.
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« Reply #40 on: January 31, 2007, 07:49:55 PM » |
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Us old guys appreciate the larger fonts. Wait until you eyes go.
My eyes are going ! Or maybe its the glasses I'm wearing in the picture. (if you can read this you're too close to the screen)(if you can read this thats a nice monitor you have)(if you can read this you may be using the IE7 zoom function) |
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« Reply #41 on: January 31, 2007, 07:51:07 PM » |
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Not likely, but color and font changes sometimes makes a response more fun and easier to read. Some just like to look at big fonts
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« Reply #42 on: January 31, 2007, 08:15:06 PM » |
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« Reply #43 on: January 31, 2007, 09:58:23 PM » |
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« Reply #44 on: January 31, 2007, 10:33:36 PM » |
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Why don't you guys use some fonts that I'm interested in? Are you all demonstrating the subtle differences between fonts because you know how to use them? Do you all actually think that this is the future of fonts? Maybe you 20-font-per-minute know-code font users should cut us 5fpm guys a break.
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« Reply #45 on: January 31, 2007, 11:59:41 PM » |
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Why don't you guys use some fonts that I'm interested in? Are you all demonstrating the subtle differences between fonts because you know how to use them? Do you all actually think that this is the future of fonts? Maybe you 20-font-per-minute know-code font users should cut us 5fpm guys a break.
How about this font: Why don't you guys use some fonts that I'm interested in? Are you all demonstrating the subtle differences between fonts because you know how to use them? Do you all actually think that this is the future of fonts? Maybe you 20-font-per-minute know-code font users should cut us 5fpm guys a break. |
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« Reply #46 on: February 01, 2007, 12:17:39 AM » |
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I once used a font this big >___________________________________________________________________________________<
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« Reply #47 on: February 01, 2007, 09:21:47 AM » |
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Actually they aren't fonts at all. They are typefaces. I think the subtle shading and rounded corners of the Monaco typeface is most pleasing to my eyes.
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« Reply #48 on: February 01, 2007, 01:49:36 PM » |
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Actually they aren't fonts at all. They are typefaces. I think the subtle shading and rounded corners of the Monaco typeface is most pleasing to my eyes.
 - MAC Monaco Quick brown - Comic Sans MS Quick brown - Arial Rounded MT Bold Quick brown - Lucida Sans Unicode There's probably several others in the MS Windows category that come close to MAC's Monaco |
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« Reply #49 on: February 01, 2007, 02:18:09 PM » |
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None of those come close. Monaco is available for PCs too. See TrueType.
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