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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:10:16 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Rovers gone wild?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some snarky comments from the masses, but IMHO this is pretty cool:

http://thereifixedit.com/2009/10/19/spy-truck-not-as-inconspicuous-as-you-think/

Buried in the comments is a link to a site I've not seen before:

http://www.hamsexy.com/cms/index.php
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Sarcasm is the Body's Natural Defense Against Stupidity]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-01 09:17:29</pubDate>
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<title>Adding Coaxial Connection to FM Radio for Shaw FM Radio</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hello,

My father in law is desperate to listen to the Italian fm radio station which is only available on shaw. 

I have a Sony radio, with a regular am/fm antenna, and at the advice of a friend picked up a 300-ohm adapter to convert coax to something that can hopefully interface with the existing antenna.

I've searched online and have drawn a blank, can someone break it down for me or send me a link? It would be much appreciated.

P.S. I have tried wiring them together already without any luck, I figured it wouldn't be so easy. I am relatively competent with soldering, and won't be a pain with lots of follow-up questions, I just need a jumping off point.

Thanks again, and sorry if this is a total noob question, radios are obviously not usually my specialty.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-08 20:18:20</pubDate>
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<title>Unknown RTTY</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Can anyone get this to decode?  I found this RTTY at 173.395MHz, and I can't get HRD/DM780 to decode any of it.  JAWS is acting up when I try to change baud rates, and since I don't know what the rate is anyway, I can't figure it out.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-11-08 04:37:00</pubDate>
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<title>Grandpa&#x27;s Pocket Watch</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I found this on a numbers station CD, and thought you all might like it.

        I have an old Waltham pocket watch . . .

        It once belonged to my grandfather, and when my own father gave it to me - many years ago - he told me a story about Grandpa's watch and a radio that I have never forgotten.

        He loved that watch. He was a stickler for time. Never late. Ever. The worn pewter timepiece was a faithful companion, and only grudgingly did Grandpa John admit to himself that it might one day begin to fail. And when that day came, just as he knew it would, Grandpa and the watch made a trip to the White River. Out to the Cowboy's old, tumble-down barn, where high in the doorway, turning slowly at the end of a rusty chain, hung a huge, old pocket watch.

        High atop the ramshackle building, strung between two rickety poles, was a sagging stretch of corroded wire which wound its way through a broken window to the back of an ancient radio.

        Inside, in the dust and the shadows, lined up row after row, were old wooden benches covered with clocks and watches and radios.

        A rough and ready man who walked with a limp, he never answered to any name but "Cowboy". He'd been a desperado in his youth, my father told me - surely a man with a past. His size and reputation belied the delicate skill with which he handled the tired old watches and clocks that passed through that doorway for repair.

        He was an odd man. Silent, intense. He waited each day at the railroad station for the Missouri Pacific to arrive. He never met anybody. Just waited. As though he were waiting for time itself.

        As watched matters go, it took a long, long, time. Days stretched to weeks, weeks to a month and still the old Waltham lay on the bench out in the barn at the White River. But Grandpa John wasn't known for his patience. He called or visited the Cowboy once - at least once - each day. It wasn't that it hadn't been repaired; the Cowboy was a craftsman who took great pride in his work. No, you see, the Cowboy was listening for WWV. Conditions were poor and the trustworthy, reliable old time signal couldn't be heard in the hot southern summer. But the Cowboy, knowing Grandpa's regard for accuracy, insisted on waiting for the signal from WWV.

        No compromise. That watch had to be set right. Just right.

        I was just a kid when my father told me this story for the first time, and I really didn't understand the answers he patiently gave to my never ending questions about just what Grandpa's pocket watch had to do with a radio. That is, I didn't understand until the day that I became the proud owner of a Hallicrafters Sky Buddy, chosen with great care from among the dozens of others that made up the Cowboy's vast collection.

        And then I did begin to understand. Comic books took a back seat to copper wire. I risked my life more than once climbing to the top of a pecan tree to hang that longwire just a little bit higher. Antenna design became an all consuming past time for me and my buddy Don. Neither of us would be outdone. Steal hubcaps? Never. But copper wire? That was another story.

        There were arguments each Saturday afternoon after the weekly Western at the Laura Movie Theater. Arguments that turned to fist fights on more than one occasion over whose letters had been read on HCJB or TGNA, whose antenna was longer - and if not longer, whose was higher - and most importantly, who could really hear WWV the best.

        I could. I'm sure of it. Because my Hallicrafters was bigger and better than his BC348 - even though it, too, had been chosen with just as much care from the Cowboy's vast collection.

        Grandpa's watch stopped one day at 6:51. But it didn't matter to him, because, y'see, Grandpa and the Cowboy had both gone some time before to a place where there is no time.

        The watch now rests in a glass case on a shelf over my radio. That's where it's been for years. Oh, the radio has changed from time to time - Hallicrafters, Nationals, Hammurlands and Yaesus have come and gone. Today it's an NRD. But always, the shiny silver watch on the shelf over the radio. Except for one long period of my life when it was packed away in the dark - the radios that surrounded me then weren't the kind that lend themselves to the display of memories. Those years were spent in innocuous, lost and dangerous places. It was a time I've left behind me - and yet it's with me still.

        I still tune to WWV. Its steady, quiet ticking is soothing, hypnotic. I especially like to listen when I'm alone in the dark and my eyes always turn to Grandpa's watch. It somehow catches the glow from the dial and reflects it back to me. In spite of its inefficiency and in spite of its age, it's still perfectly accurate. I know I can count on it. Two times, every day.
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Boone County Scanner Feed:
http://boone.mo.scanamerica.us/
"If I have the opportunity, I'll take whoever put that look on your face, my darling Eve, and peel the skin from their bones, one thin layer at a time" -- Memory In Death
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<pubDate>2009-11-08 02:59:52</pubDate>
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<title>Something I&#x27;ve been meaning to post...</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23268985</link>
<description><![CDATA[Well, two weeks ago, after having my license for over a year. I finally purchased an HF rig.

Purchased it as part of a kit from a local Ham whom was getting rid of it due to cut back in hours at work.
The kit was as followed:
Yaesu FT-897D with the "internal" power supply (FP-30).
Software plus CAT cable
LDG AT-897 Tuner
LDG Meter
Plus, a Pelican case for the transceiver setup.

Buddipole Deluxe system

A very nice grab and go kit.

Would have never discovered the offering had I not been on Craigslist of all places at one in the morning.

I haven't had much of a chance to really start using it. Been trying out for an hour or so every night I get a chance too.

Don't have any permanent antennas yet. So when I do have the opportunity I'm using it with the Buddipole.

SignaLink was to satisfy my desire interest with digital forms. Main reason for the purchase it the netbook I own only has one audio port. Either mic or speakers, not both.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-10-30 22:45:28</pubDate>
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<title>Comcast cable interfearance?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have a s9 buzz all over 80 40 and 20 meters.

I live in a big complex with multiple units. 

My hf antenna is a g5rv in the attic of the complex.
Comcast rewired placing coax for every unit through the attic.

Anyway i have been living with this buzz for a year or so.
Fast forward to today.
We had a local power failure that took out just a couple blocks.

I fired up my generator and ham radios.
I found the buzz was still there so I powered up my cable modem by generator.    sure enough the only thing live in the building was comcast cable.

Im sure the buzz is from comcast now.
Do you think I have a chance of getting them to fix it?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-10-16 23:16:16</pubDate>
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<title>Antenna Law</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm not a HAM radio operator, but figured this would be the best forum to ask the question after hours of searching.  If this is the wrong forum, please move it!

Where would I find information about local antenna/tower laws.  I would like to erect a pole with a TV antenna, Cellular antenna for my Srpint data card failover, and maybe a point to point 802.11 setup for a neighbor.  

Any help on where I could find any information would be much appreciated.  Thank you!]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-10-22 22:39:51</pubDate>
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<title>W5YI VEC</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23211963</link>
<description><![CDATA[I knew my ticket was coming up for renewal "one of these days" and was pleasantly surprised to receive a renewal notice from the W5YI gang.  I was not looking forward to figuring out how it was done 'this time' (a lot changes in 10 years), whether I needed my long lost/forgotten FRU number that's safely filed somewhere in my office, etc etc.  Three cheers for their attentiveness and desire to receive my $7 !!]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-10-20 10:59:38</pubDate>
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