06-25-14 09:29 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Storage   
      
    HG> @MSGID: <53ABF883.632.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    HG> In a message dated 06-23-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   Howdy! Holger,   
      
    EV> GM Holger ... ._ __ ,   
      
    HG> .... ..  . -..   
   TKS or is it TNX that's used on CW?   
      
    EV> Years before my Junior High School friend let me hear WWV on his   
    EV> S-38 RX I got a 2 piece Telegraph Set.   
      
    HG> Hey, I think that the first receiver I owned for ham radio was   
    HG> a S-38 but it was broad as a barn door so it was only an   
    HG> intermediate step while I built myself a 14 tube double   
    HG> conversion superhet.   
      
   My Friends S-38 was either the C or D model, I got the E model in 1958.   
      
    HG> BTW, talking about output power I forgot that I still have a   
    HG> Heathkit HA-24 PA with the HP-24 AC-power supply. It's useless   
    HG> however since the pair of 872B's are "finito" probably because   
    HG> of overdriving with a Drake TR-4c.   
      
   I'm not familiar with the HA-24 RF AMP, I'll hafta go look through my   
   collection of Heath catalogs to refresh my memory.   
   Later: I looked through several Heathkit catalog issues but never seen   
   mention of either the HA-24 or the HP-24, guess I will have to go to   
   a Search Site to find out.   
      
   When I read about your 872B problem I was 'thinking' the tube was a   
   Triode or Tetrode and couldn't find any info on it while rambling thru   
   the Transmitting Tubes pages in the back of my 1976 A.R.R.L. Radio   
   Amateur's Handbook.   
   So I flipped a few pages towards the front of the book and located the   
   page in the Index To Vacuum Tube Types for the 872A/872 and learned that   
   the tube is a Rectifier.   
      
   Wow! that 872B can handle 1 1/4 Amps of Current MAX at 10,000 Volts!   
      
   I remember seeing the RCA ad on the back of QST issues for their 3B28   
   Xenon Gas Rectifier tube and suggesting to a Ham Friend to try putting   
   Two of those in his Viking Valiant TX, since Two different times he had   
   to replace both 4-Pin Tube Sockets on the chassis for the 866 Rectifier   
   Tubes because of them arcing over, and maybe (???) having to replace   
   the 866 tubes(???).   
      
   Even though the 3B28's costs several times more than 866's did, he put   
   them in and those tubes solved his problems.   
      
   If there is any Xenon Gas Rectifier Tubes simular to the 872B MV tube,   
   like the 3B28 is to the MV 866's, I'd think that would be something to   
   consider.   
      
    EV> But I didn't think of typing the 'Sounds' when I used the Underscore   
    EV> and Period characters on the keyboard to 'send my GRIN message'.   
      
    HG> The underscore is a very poor substitute for a dash. Two   
    HG> underscores join each other so you have to look real close if   
    HG> that is intended as one or two dashes.   
      
   There I go thinking again, years ago when I learned to type while I was   
   in the Navy I thought the underscore looked better since it was on the   
   same level as the period was when I typed them on a sheet of paper.   
      
   In a later message either from You or Roy I was able to see the   
   difference in the small gap between two hyphens and two underscores   
   typed together.   
   There IS A Difference!  but you know how it is with the old saying that   
   it's hard to learn an old dog a new trick.   
      
    EV> I also remember seeing a Morse Code Chart on a page in my older   
    EV> brothers Boy Scout book, and probably if I had joined the Scout's I   
    EV> would had been introduced to hearing the sounds of the Code instead   
      
    HG> I've never been a Boy Scout even though I at one time was   
    HG> interested in the concept and I really don't recall where I got   
    HG> this love for morse but when I was called in for military duty   
    HG> (while living in Finland) I had already started in a amateur   
    HG> radio license course so I asked for a placement in a signal   
    HG> corps battalion and where placed there.   
      
    EV> ... if u cn rd ths u 2 cn thnk up shrt clvr tglns   
      
    HG> I prefer to send tag lines that anybody can understand, not   
    HG> only us weird types called hams, hi.   
      
   Or weird users of .QWK Readers for BBS messages.  I'm Both!   
      
    HG>  * MR/2 2.30 * I'm not lost!  I'm "locationally challenged."   
      
   Speaking of "locationally challenged", Your mention of being in Finland   
   when You went into the Army, made me wonder if You are Finnish and   
   moved to Ahvenanmaa?   
   (I found that word just now with the WordWeb Dictionary)   hi  73   
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