This Saturday, five diehards, defying the infernal temperatures, met for the weekly Saturday morning ham breakfast at Virlie’s restaurant in Pittsboro.<\/p>\n
John, KX4P, who has rebuilt a homebrew crystal-controlled AM transmitter, described his impressive feat of raising the frequency of an FT-243 crystal by hand grinding the quartz crystal with some VERY fine sandpaper, raising the frequency about 20 KHz. It took him only 18 tries to sneak up on it.<\/p>\n
Bill, N8BR, has been cutting firewood, probably training for a transcendental antenna effort.<\/p>\n
Roy, WA2JLW, remarked that his Vibroplex paddle needs occasional adjustment. Obviously a case of hypermorse activity. He also observed that 4 out of five of the breakfast attendees were 75 years old. His birthday is Sunday.<\/p>\n
Nick, KA1HPM, the youngster of the group at only 73, brought a show-and-tell of an adapter for his headset\/ mic to his radio. Nice job. He does a lot of that.<\/p>\n
Herb, N4HA, reminisced about a sideswiper key he built as a young ham from a hacksaw blade. Thank goodness for iambic paddles.<\/p>\n
Where are the youngbloods? Please join us and inspire us every Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
posted by KR4UB for Herb N4HA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This Saturday, five diehards, defying the infernal temperatures, met for the weekly Saturday morning ham breakfast at Virlie’s restaurant in Pittsboro. John, KX4P, who has rebuilt a homebrew crystal-controlled AM transmitter, described his impressive feat of raising the frequency of … Continue reading