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 Thursday, January 15, 2003
started 1/16/2003; 9:46:38 AM - last post 1/16/2003; 2:18:53 PM
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Doc Searls - Thursday, January 15, 2003 
1/16/2003; 1:46:38 PM (reads: 4494, responses: 5)
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A two hour vacation 
| | It's too nice to stay indoors. I'm going out. See ya later. |
Way cool
| | I have always felt that flowers and children are the same in that they have the intrinsic ability to thrive given food, water, sunshine and appropriate shelter. The best we can do for both children and flowers is provide the vital formula, then step back and watch them flourish. |
| | Children will learn what they need to know in whatever circumstances they find themselves. In a formal educational setting, many children and adults will thrive and do well according to the designers and providers of the setting. |
| | We have many different types of learners just as we have different types of flowers with different needs. |
| | It also jibes with my own school experience, which felt like prison. |
| | Judith describes herself as an ADD (attention deficit disorder) type. So am I. Much as I hate the two negative Ds, the description applies. And it accounts almost entirely for why school and I generally didn't like each other. Maybe also for the fact that I'm a gardener too. (At least when I actually have a garden, which I don't right now.) |
As fear fans out
| | Brett's a veteran ham radio operator. Wish I could say the same about myself. I got into it back in the early 60s, when I was in Junior High. My callsign was WV2VXH, or, in Morse code: .-- ...- ..--- ...- -..- .... . But I never got my general class license, because I kept flunking the code test, the last two times by missing a space. I gave up trying after I went off to a boarding school. |
| | I still have my old receiver, though, in storage in North Carolina: a Hammarlund HQ-129X. Loved that thing. In addition to the ham stuff, I used it to pick up over 800 AM stations from all over the hemisphere from my bedroom in New Jersey, while my parents thought I was doing homework or sleeping. This was no small achievement, since there were only 106 AM channels (540 through 1600) in those days (recently the band has been extended to 1710), and we lived in Maywood, which is right off the corner of the New Jersey meadowlands, where most of the big New York AM stations locate their transmitters. (By the way, if you're into that kind of stuff, check out Jim Hawkins' pages on WMCA, WHN, WHOM, WADO, WABC and other stations. WABC's tower lights loomed above my bedroom window, and the signal was so strong you could hear it in the toaster, the TV's speaker — when the TV was off — and other unlikely places.) |
| | Anyway, I've thought every once in awhile about getting back into ham radio. Nice fantasy, but no time. |
| | Still, I'd love to hear what Brett says tonight. |
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lou josephs - Re: Thursday, January 15, 2003
1/16/2003; 5:18:52 PM (reads: 591, responses: 3)
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I had a Hammerlund HQ 140 X, it's still works and it's in my basement. Sony has announced that it will no longer make the ICF 2010. Buy one now because when they're gone it's E-Bay.
I also have a laterSony, that's a knock of of the SW 55 only smaller and without the paged memory.
I am gutting my YB 400, the last of the true Grundigs made in Europe (now a Tawaianese company). for Digital radio mondaile. (DRM)..Digital shortwave. sofware it at the drm site along with the rx mods.
Code..no one does that anymore...
I have a ham license but never use it.
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Michael Bernstein - Re: Thursday, January 15, 2003
1/16/2003; 6:18:53 PM (reads: 569, responses: 0)
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Doc Searls - Re: Thursday, January 15, 2003
1/16/2003; 6:38:32 PM (reads: 697, responses: 2)
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I think the 140x beat the 129. They all looked funky. Love the big dials, and the whole feel of those old beasts.
The ICF-2010 is pretty much gone from the retail channel now. Only J&R carried it, and it appears to be gone.
My shortwave box is a Grundig Satellit 800. I wrote about that big boy and some other stuff around that subject here and here.
The Grudig got some bad reviews, but some good ones too. I think it's amazing. FM and AM performance are exceeded by nothing I've ever used. Shortwave is pretty darn good too. The main drawbacks: it's huge, heavy, and doesn't tell you whether it's sucking energy from batteries or the wall. But I don't move it much, so that's cool.
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lou josephs - Re: Thursday, January 15, 2003
1/16/2003; 10:34:30 PM (reads: 743, responses: 1)
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Tom Sundstrom did two reviews of the 800, the first he hated (Sharper Image) and a later version last year. It's a big box. The one thing I liked about the Hammerlund is it's sound, you don't get that warm sound from a digital readout box. (www.ibcworks.net/radio68.htm) The old shortwave was recorded from the Hammerlund, the later stuff (radio moscow)came from the Sony 2010.
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Ralph Brandi - Re: Thursday, January 15, 2003
1/17/2003; 2:20:04 AM (reads: 901, responses: 0)
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Tom had good reason to hate the 800; his first sample was a piece of krep. They had serious quality control problems with the first few batches. But the underlying platform is solid; it's a cost-reduced Drake SW-8. Now that they've got the bugs out, it's a solid radio. Very solid. :-)
As for the 2010, it is indeed gone. Universal Radio in Ohio was the last source for it, and they just cancelled over a hundred orders this week because Sony didn't come through. Sony had originally promised to continue producing the radio until the end of March, but changed their minds. I bought a 2010 from Universal about two years ago to replace my original 2010, which bought the farm from overuse and a couple of close encounters of the Pepsi kind. It's truly a remarkable radio, and it's amazing that Sony kept it in its catalog for 17 years. I can't think of too many consumer electronics products with that kind of longetivity.
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