813 Rig - Slight change of plans...

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Excellent. Hiram would be proud.

This thread was about building a Maul without making it sing for it's supper. We were talking about how to make the Monkey swing using toobs that have enough scrot to drive a strapping 4X1 without sounding Yellowee or using Loop or shock modulation. We were also talking about JSing a scrotful non-Crapstal (who wants to rubberize a crapstal anyway?) exciter to this thing. There were definitely some Old-Buzzard transmissions, but not too much Pissing and Moaning.

Now, I'm not a JN. I'm comfortable with Drilling and Blasting. I've built all kinds of Piss Weak gear. I just think building a Strapping Maul is far more Intrascent then Pissing and Moaning on Slop Bucket.

But, we are all AMers (or budding AMers). No need to get Yellowified.

  Am I doing it right?

Seriously guys -  This forum is unique in the fact that there is so much combined wisdom and knowledge. Most folks here are extremely knowledgeable and experienced - and are willing to share that knowledge and experience with the rest of us. If folks want to use a bit of slang here and there to keep things fun, so be it. I'm having fun, and learning a ton too.

If you really want to see dumbing-down, look on Facebook, or Myspace, or Twitter, or try reading an email or post from someone who insists on using text-speak, or...

By comparison, we're doing pretty good here!

[K1JJ]

One thing is for sure, ain't none of us living on the edge or really pushing very many limits.

Hey, one time I returned a video tape and didn't even rewind it!


And you know those bits of toothpaste that fall out of your mouth when brushing?  I dry 'em out and leave 'em around the house as after-dinner-mints for my guests.

Don't tell me I don't live on the edge.

T


BTW, excellent Tron-eeze text Tim... )

[The Slab Bacon]

BTW, excellent Tron-eeze text Tim... )

Yes, he will have to endure one more right of passage:

Getting on AM and hearing Timmy (the Tron) say:
             
                    "Err, I can hear ya up here, but yer kinda piss weak"

                                               

[N8UH]

BTW, excellent Tron-eeze text Tim... )

Yes, he will have to endure one more right of passage:

Getting on AM and hearing Timmy (the Tron) say:
             
                    "Err, I can hear ya up here, but yer kinda piss weak"

                                               

I can't wait!

[k4kyv]

The CB-esque lingo I hear from the AM crowd doesn't bother me because I can tell it's tongue-in-cheek.  It's different when someone tells me what his "personal" is or signs out with "threes" or "seventy-thirds", or tells me I am wall-to-wall treetop tall. But even so, it still doesn't make me walk round with a turd in my pocket.

[WA1GFZ]

I still drink from containers in the fridge....when nobody is looking

[Ralph W3GL]

   Yeah, so do I but then, I live alone...

   Timtronese is another form of "Pidgin" speak, like Ebonics...

   A little bit goes a long way for me...



   

[K5UJ]

A few terms that have crept into the hobby that mildly annoy me are calling a jack on a rig a "port" as in "antenna port."  That one I think has come in from the computer crowd.  A few others I'm getting used to:  "Key up" and calling any transmitter, receiver or transceiver a radio.  I have (sadly) found myself doing that also.  It was something I noticed immediately when I got back active again 10 years ago after being QRT for 18 years.   In my salad days a "radio" was the broadcast rx in the bathroom or car.  Hams had receivers, transceivers, rigs, and transmitters but no ham in a QSO ever said "what kind of radio do you have?"  Huh?   "A Zenith AM-FM upstairs in the kitchen."   It still grates on me for some reason.  Somehow in the 80s or 90s all our gear became radios.

[w5omr]

2. Use a single 4-1000 as my PA and find something to modulate it, perhaps a pair of 833s. That way, I could still use the 2 10VCT 10A transformers I have on the way.

3. Something else

2 10am fil xfmrs?  (4) 813's, push-pull parallel, modulating the 4-1000.

Variac the B+ supply for the final and screen voltage, run about 2400v on the 813's, and bias 'em off... 
thing of beauty.

john/WA5BXO has quad 813's modulating a pair of 250TH's.