Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Do we have any hams among the membership?? I'm KM6MB been a ham for a number of years now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 I've got a CB wireless... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 I've got a CB wireless... Go wash your mouth out with carbolic soap now Mick Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 Ayupmeducks Posted: May 3 2006, 01:51 PM Do we have any hams among the membership?? I'm KM6MB been a ham for a number of years now. Is that smoked or unsmoked Ham because i like my Ham Unsmoked. !rotfl! I have a ITT KB tiny 33 would that be any good or wouldn't it be stronge enough to listen in. it has VHF, LW and MW...only the best you know and takes 4 double A batteries.........Wilkos are the best... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 Well I would have been a Ham, always interested in radio, even as a kid. But for the rediculus RSGB or was it SGB? exams requiring morse code. Why was that ever an issue to get a licence. I was more a listener in my radio years, still got the equipment too. Icom ICR7000 Rigpix - Icom IC-R7000 Yaesu frg8800 Rigpix - Yaesu frg8800 Icom ICR 100 Rigpix - Icom ICR100 Oh yes and fer the Morse code I got... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 Well I would have been a Ham, always interested in radio, even as a kid.But for the rediculus RSGB or was it SGB? exams requiring morse code. Why was that ever an issue to get a licence. I was more a listener in my radio years, still got the equipment too. Icom ICR7000 Rigpix - Icom IC-R7000 Yaesu frg8800 Rigpix - Yaesu frg8800 Icom ICR 100 Rigpix - Icom ICR100 Oh yes and fer the Morse code I got... Well, you've no excuse now Mick, there's no Morse requirement in the UK top license any more! Multi choice questions, more like giving the tickects away now in cornflakes boxes! Morse, or as we call it CW, wasn't that difficult if you stick with it. I spent weeks getting the speed up, thats the hard part. I got mine up to pass the 13 wpm for my Advanced class, and stopped, should have kept it up to get the 20wpm and the top ticket Extra class over here, but was too interested in using my radio! No probs, Extra now is only 5 wpm when I want to get back into it. I run the Yaesu FT 1000MP hf radio and the Yaesu FT736R VHF/UHF radio for 2 metres and 70cm and have the 6 metre module in it. The Icom receiver you show is a nice set! Always wanted a receiver that covered DC to daylight. Now frigging get on the RSGB's site and see how easy it is to get licensed now! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 Is that smoked or unsmoked Ham because i like my Ham Unsmoked. !rotfl! I prefer mine with Pineapple !hungry! Theres always one isn't there? or in mine & Bips case 2!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 !rulez! You always get those show offs Caz try to baffle you with tech terms they think if they talk technical you will give in and go and pester someone else but NO i refuse to be talked down to or even ignored. So here goes this is what i know about the subject-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Nowt......i had a walky talky when i was younger, now that's going back some.........two empty bake bean cans with a piece of string joining them both together....if you stood close enough there wasn't any need for the cans. !rotfl! OK your two it looks that you're on ya own on this one...to me it's just mindless woffle....woffle not in the dictionary........ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 Yeah i used bean cans too but it was a bit dangerous because the sharp ends cut into me tabs Never understood about all this CB stuff myself,Fluffy Ducks & all those stupid names they called themselves,I think it was just an excuse to chat up girls,much like the Internet today,difference is instead of sitting in your Robin Reliant with steamed up windows you can do it in the comfort of your own lounge room !laughing! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 Yeah i used bean cans too but it was a bit dangerous because the sharp ends cut into me tabs Never understood about all this CB stuff myself,Fluffy Ducks & all those stupid names they called themselves,I think it was just an excuse to chat up girls,much like the Internet today,difference is instead of sitting in your Robin Reliant with steamed up windows you can do it in the comfort of your own lounge room      !laughing! Caz! we hams take exception about being called CBers! I had to study radio theory, practice and morse code to 13 words per minute to pass a test for my license. I can repair to a degree my equipment. I know a Hartley oscillator from a Clapp oscillator. I can design and build my own antennas and amplifiers, because I have the knowlege to do such things. Licensed hams world wide put their expensive equipment and themselves at disaster zones. During the Katrina hurricane in this country, the whole communications infrastructure collapsed. A ham went to the National Weather Service HQ near New Orleans with some of his equipment as their land lines and cell phones were gone! He provided a necessary link to the outside world for that agency to receive information from other parts of the ravaged Gulf area. When the tsunami hit the Indian Ocean states, Sri Lanka's only means of communication with the outside world was via it's ham radio operators on High Frequency ham bands, The Prime Minister of that nation communicated with his counterparts around the world while telephones, cell phones and electricity was out! The same with most of those ravaged nations, ALL relied upon ham radio operators. CBer's usually don't know a volume control from a VFO! They usually don't know how to make their own antennas. THEY don't have to study radio theory, harmful emmissions etc, and most certainly don't have to get licensed in most parts of the world. Their mandated max output from a transmitter is 12 watts PEP, mine is 1500 watts PEP on many bands, not just channelised 40 channels. I share 160, 80,40,30,20,17,15 and 10 metre bands with other licensed hams on the short wave spectrum, together with 50 mhz, 144mhz, 440mhz, 220mhz, and several more bands going into the SHF bands. We operate standard "phone", (voice, on AM, SSB and FM) digital modes and slow and high scan television on our bands. BTW, we don't talk like CBers on our bands either, we talk like normal human beings Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 Well Caz that's put you in your place... !rulez! How could you say such things, disgraceful Caz.... you must learn to be more tolerate of other peoples hobbys..!rotfl! PS. do you like me think they have gone over the top with their attachments should we as Moderators delete their Photo's you now what the gaffer said Caz, it's costing him a small fortune for bandwidth and he's not made of money you know even thou he's a civil servant with a good pension at the end of the day.... PPS. It's been over 25c today hottest of the year and probably the last one too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cali Gal 1 Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 I use orange marmalade on my ham while baking! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 Here we go! now Cali is having a dig, look you girls! this is a serious subject and besides i'm the only one who is allowed to take the michael. If your two can't control your comments to the serious side of this topic you will leave me no option but to reppremand you both and give you a written warning, well an email warning.. so listen up you two keep it to the topic, OK! Is that alright Ayup and mick. sometimes you have to show your true metal to these girls if you don't they take advantage..... PS. I rather like English Mustard on my Ham sandwiches..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 What you have to know is there has always been friction between the Hams (amatures) and the CB'ers. We pinched a bit of their Ether for a while. There were Illegal L/USB (Lower/Upper Side band) users who made contact around the world (not me). This Illegality was probably half the fun. I was in contact with both camps, and all kinds of radio frequencies have been used in disaster zones. The CBers refered to the hams as the OBN (Old Boy Network). There is (was?) a repeatar on Mapperly top. If you were having trouble getting to sleep, you could tune in to that for a while. Equally CBers could be morons (Turkeys). I together with others would track them down. and that was part of the fun. We were the 'CB Police' of the 80's. AFAIK, there was only one famous 'Ham' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 There's been many famous hams Mick, King Hussein of Jordon, that American actor who lived in French Polenesia, can't think of his name now, several top tv personalities, Senators, most of the House of Saud in Saudi are hams. Walter Conkrite is one. Donny Osmand!!! He's a ham!! Bloody "No Code Tech" as we call them, several Country and Western singers hold a ticket the bloke who plays Matlock in the TV series is an old ham!! Jeeze I'd have to get the list out of famous hams. Mick, theres probably several repeaters on 2 metres around Nottingham area! I used to have a 'digipeater" in California operating on 2 metres for packet operation. It was interesting to see the route a signal followed in the logs! I traced one from overseas, through a ham satellite, across the USA, through Canada and then through me to another distant station. Packet is like the internet via radio though instead of land lines. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 Marlon Brando, F1 something or other was his callsign, he used to operate mostly CW. (morse code) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 How about these famous hams? Mick2me Nottstalgia Administrater KB1EQ ROY ROGERS WA2EKU ROBERT DORNAN KB4INI ROBERT TAYLOR W4BVX BILL CLINTON KB5DQM JIMMY CARTER WA6BGA RAY NOBLE KN6NT RUDOLPH VALENTINO (SK) W6FZZ SAMUEL F.B. MORSE KE6MCM HUGH DOWNS N7RPG DALE EVANS W7GFF ELIZABETH TAYLOR WA7WYV ANDY GRIFFITH W9EFD LOU COSTELLO KA9RCO TERESA BREWER KC8VB HENRY WINKLER WP4CO JOSE FELICIANO ROYALTY & DICTATORS A4XAA QABUS BIB SAID, THE SULTAN OF OMAN AC3PT THONDUP, THE KING OF SIKKIM AKA P. T. NAMGYAL, (SK) EA1JC JUAN CARLOS, THE KING OF SPAIN EP1MP MAHMUD REZA PAHLAVI,SON OF THE LATE SHAH OF IRAN,(SK) HS1A BHUMIPHOL ADULAYADEJ, THE KING OF THAILAND I0FCG FRANCESCO COSSIGA ,THE PRESIDENT OF ITALY JY1 KING HUSSEIN OF JORDON (ALSO "EPIJY") (SK) JY1NH OUEEN NOOR (WIDOW OF KING HUSSEIN) JY2HT CROWN PRINCE HASSAN JY2RZ PRINCE RAAD, COUSIN OF KING HUSSEIN & CHAIRMAN OF THE ROYAL JORDANIAN RADIO SOCIETY LU1SM DR. CARLOS SAUL MENEM, THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARGENTINA OE5AH ARCH DUKE ANTON HAPSBURG, (SK) VU2RG RAJIV GANDHI, THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA,(SK) VU2SON SONIA GANDHI, THE WIFE OF RAJIV GANDHI Y15KG KING FAISAL GHAZL, THE KING OF IRAQ, (SK) YN1AS ANASTATIO SOMOZA, DICTATOR OF NICARAGUA, (SK) W0ORE Tony England Astronaut K1JT Joe Taylor Scientist K1OKI Mickey Schulhof Heads SONY US KB2GSD Walter Cronkite TV Journalist K2HEP John Sculley former CEO of Apple Computer KB2LHI Joe Walsh sk "World's Fastest Shooter" WA2MKI Larry Ferrari sk Musician/TV personality K2ORS Jean Shepard sk TV personality W2TQ Joel Miller Attorney K2ZCZ George Pataki Governor of New York 1994 W4CGP Chet Atkins Singer/Songwriter WB4KCG Ronnie Milsap Singer/Songwriter N4KET David French TV Journalist K4LIB Arthur Godfrey sk TV personality KC4OCA Gordon Barnes Meteorologist N4RH Ralph Haller Former FCC PRB chief WA4SIR Ron Parise Astronaut WD4LZC Larnelle Harris Country Music Singer WD4SKT 14.230 MHz SSTV KD4WUJ Patty Loveless Country Music Singer W4ZG Worth Gruelle Author K4ZVZ Paul W. Tibbets War Hero W5LFL Owen Garriot Astronaut N5QWL Jay Apt Astronaut KC5ZTA Koichi Wakata Astronaut from Japan WB6ACU Joe Walsh Singer/Songwriter K6DUE Roy Neal TV personality K6DXK Ernest P. Lehman Writer, Producer, Actor, Director W6EZV Gen. Curtis LeMay Military legend N6FUP Stu Cooks Baseball player N6GGM Laura Cooks XYL of N6FUP N6KGB Stewart Granger Actor KB6LQR Jeana Yeager Pilot/Adventurer KB6LQS Dick Rutan Pilot/Adventurer AI6M Barry Friedman 2-time World Champion Juggler W6OBB Art Bell Radio personality KB6OLJ Paul J. Cohen Mathematician KD6OY Garry Shandling TV Personality W6QUT Freeman Gosden sk Actor W6QYI Cardinal Roger Mahony Cleric WB6RER Andy Devine Actor W6ZH Herbert Hoover, Jr. sk Son of U.S. President W7DUK Nolan Bushnell Computer Pioneer, Founded Atari KG7JF Jeff Duntemann Author K7TA Clifford Stoll Scientist/Author/Actor NK7U Joe Rudi Baseball player K7UGA Barry Goldwater sk US Senator W8JK John Kraus Astronomer W8PAL Al Gross sk Communications Pioneer/Inventor 9K2CS Prince Yousuf Al-Sabah Royalty 9N1MM Fr. Marshall Moran Renowned Missionary CN8MH King Hassan II sk King of Morocco EA0JC Juan Carlos King of Spain FO5GJ Marlon Brando Actor GB1MIR Helen Sharman Astronaut G2DQU Sir Brian Rix Actor/Philanthropist G3YLA Jim Bacon TV Meteorologist HS1A Bhumiphol Adulayadej King of Thailand I0FCG Francesco Cossiga former President of Italy JI1KIT Keizo Obuchi Former Prime Minister of Japan JY1 King Hussein King of Jordan JY1NH Queen Noor Queen of Jordan JY2HT King Hussein's brother Former Crown Prince Hassan JY2RZ Prince Raad Royal Jordan Radio Amateur Society LU1SM Carlos Saul Menem President of Argentina OD5LE Emil Lahoud President of Lebanon SU1VN Prince Talal Saudi Arabian royalty UA1LO Yuri Gagarin First Cosmonaut U2MIR/UV3AM Musa Manarov Cosmonaut VK2KB Sir Allan Fairhall Statesman VK4HA Harry Angel sk at 106 Was Australia's oldest radio amateur VU2RG Rajiv Ghandi sk late Prime Minister of India VU2SON Sonia Ghandi XYL of VU2RG XE1GC Guillermo González Camarena Invented color television picture tube XE1GGO Enrique Guzman Singer XE1K Walter Cross Buchanan ex-Minister of Communications and Public Works XE1MMM Jorge Vargas Singer XE1N Manuel Medina Built first spark transmitter in Mexico YU1RL Radivoje "Rasa" Lazarevic Yugoslav ambassador to Brazil Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cali Gal 1 Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 OK, I understand that it's a radio of sorts, but what exactly is ham, and why do you need a license? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 OK, I understand that it's a radio of sorts, but what exactly is ham, and why do you need a license? Because the law requires it Cali, when we study and pass the exam and are issued our licenses and call sign, we get the privilage of operating on many frquencies alloted us by international treaties. We are allowed a lot of leeway and could interfere with other licensed radio stations if we didn't know what we were doing. Check out the ARRL, our representative organsisation within this country ARRL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 There's everything to know about Ham radio on the ARRL webpage, most in none technical terms for someone looking for that sort of info about what we are about. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 !rulez! I hope that what mick and ayup have just said quietens you two girls now. Me! i didn't understand not one Bl00dy word>>>>> Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted May 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 !rulez! I hope that what mick and ayup have just said quietens you two girls now. Me! i didn't understand not one Bl00dy word>>>>> Den, go here then.......>click on me! Or here Den................>click here! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Can anybody give me the 10/13? !rotfl! Are there any Yl's on this forum?? and are there any updates on the eye ball that you are having with Cali? lol lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Caz! what the hek r u talking about here. 10/13, YI's, eye ball. is this aboriginal? or have you finally gone on a walkabout, funny what the sun can do to you and half a crate of cheep Bordeaux. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you mean 10:13 Pheromone? Athena Pheromone 10:13 added to your favorite fragrance can increase the romance in your life by enhancing your "sex appeal". 10:13 promotes your sexual attractiveness. (Anecdotal input from many women report that 10:13 helps them in their business relationships as well.) Am i barking up the wrong tree or just chewing me bone. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 You think I got time for sending bread pudding to kuala lumpa nowadays Ayup? I got a family and several websites to support. What did happen to CB BTW? I heard they cancelled the 27mhz band. But I did see a few cars with twigs recently. Might dig out me old rig, see if there are any turkeys to hunt down? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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