You are off frequency is just idiocy. WHAT? Are we the bureau of standards now? Am I out of the band or not? NO? Okay, so what? I just found an early 1940s transceiver, made by GE, and it drifts. The ONLY references I have regarding this old radio are all in French, where someone in France found one in a barn that was left over from the D Day Invasion. Yeah, if I am within the band, I really don't care, with a transmitter like that one. The transceiver I am using has tubes with date codes from 1941 inside it. Someone did drop it and broke an RCA VT4-C, which was replaced with a GE, because I did not feel like paying $3000 for an RCA 211 tube. I also like to cook the dust off some 6146A,/6146Bs, in Hethkit, or Kenwood/Yeasu, or the old sweep tubes in late 1960s Yeasu equipment from time to time. Let's see whomever it is with the latest greatest new equipment even tune that 1939 GE transmitter, so he/she can begin to transmit with it. Same with that Heathkit stuff. That old stuff drifts, sorry. If I am still in the band, and I am not drifting down into CW/data only portion, it's all good. I have new(er) equipment too, but I do enjoy my vacuum my tubes. "Hi Hi" gets pretty old pretty fast too! Some guy out of Detroit used it every time he began to transmit. Hi hi, this, hi hi that, and everything began with "hi hi". I was limited to 100 watts mobile, on 40 meters with a Yeasu 120D screwdriver, so I did not have a Chinaman's chance in you know where, of making any contact, especially when everyone else was running 600 watts or better. I picked up a spare tire rack for a Z2 Blazer, bought a Tarheel, and put a battery box with 4 deep cycles, and an inverter down where the old spare went, so now I can run any of my 1500 watt linear amps mobile, now. I have a generator too, but it is almost as noisy as the inverter charger unit, when charging. Oh, and I had my laptop's hard-drive tank during my first contest, so I do keep a pencil & paper backup log. This laptop also likes to overheat, so I keep a paper log, just in case. I am usually too busy to dedicate 2 or 3 days to working the radios. I do like screwing around with the old boat anchors, and keeping them on the air. Collins, E.F. Johnson, THE Japanese hybrids, Heathkit, Nye, Henry, etc. I even bought a 1980s Heath (no kit) SS9000 synth transceiver. No way, would I have ever paid 2700 1982 US dollars for it, but $300 now? Why not? Heath probably only sold 400 of those. 73s KI7AQJ KB1GMX on 2016-07-22



Love the "off frequency" one. I bump into that regularly on HF as I like running old gear with VFOs and no digital display. I have those things for when I need them. So... Hey, this is W... Your off frequency. Me: Sorry no i'm not. Him: your not on .260. Me: correct. Him: you have to be on .260 Me: No, my partner I'm talking to is on xx.259953 (nearest cycle!) Him: you both should be on .260. Me: sorry, seems your dial is wrong too your on .260123, come down 170 HZ and we can hear you better. Him: you need to be on my frequency as I'm on .260. Me: I'd like to but then I'd be 123hz off rather that 47. Him: Listen I have a mumble98000 radio and my dial is correct. Me: Ok, that's nice but it must have been jarred in shipping. Him: its always been right. Me: go check against WWV. Him: W... qsy 10.000000 (yes, he said that!) I went back to the conversation never heard him again. I was happy where I was and suspected he was a HT carrying newbie with a vanity call (QRZ confirmed!). Other, tell me "I have a TCXO in the rig", to that its that's nice did you dial in it to correct for drift? Or what channel are you on? I hear crickets. Few understand that all the digits are nice but can still be wrong as it all depends on a crystal time base that can be and often is somewhat wrong. Unless its a sched or a net there is no "off frequency". To some of the other wacky speech that is vaguely cbism, my response is the universal 10-4 good buddy. That seems to correct the problem. ;) Allison Reply to a comment by : KE6SLS on 2016-07-22



Guess my sand paper term is "what's ur handle there?" Get this about once a month, often by older hams new to the hobby on vhf, but also hear it way too much on hf ssb. Never EVER heard it on cw though :) Enjoyed the read this AM. TU 73 j Reply to a comment by :on 2016-07-22