Check this guy out!

[M0GLO]

Cool radios!

http://www.schmarder.com/radios/tube/index.htm

[KC8TCQ]

Cool radios!

http://www.schmarder.com/radios/tube/index.htm

I concour, there are some sweet looking radios there.

[N2NH]

Beautiful workmanship. Great radios. That's becoming a lost art.

[kf0rt]

The ham version of "Dave Made?"

Some way cool stuff there....

[N8YX]

Hell, you can't even get today's 'ham' to build something with transistors...let alone tubes!

How many of 'em would know not to put their hands around B+ connections with the power 'on''?

Easier to buy than build...to throw away than repair...

http://hal.ucr.edu/~cathy/bean/tubetop.gif

See one tubetop, you've see 'em all.

[kc4umo]

Those are really cool.

And you are right. It is a lost art.
But why?
Is it because of the way AR has become?
Is it because there is no more walk in electronic shops to hunt for that special part?
Is it because that "Elmers" of old are gone and others will not step up to help?

I will tell you this. I was building a homebrew 6 meter rig and felt very proud in doing so. I even posted on a well known site. And was very much hurt when I saw the first reply from someone.


Why do you want to homebrew? You know anything you build can never approach what can be had by commercially built equipment. Forget all this homebrew nonsense and just be an appliance operator. You will find that expanding your mind is simply too much work. As a matter of fact, why do you even have a ham license? Cant you just be content with direct tv? You had better go find your TV remote for this homebrew crap gets out of hand.

That almost got the best of me. I know my radio was not the best looking radio around. And I know the main board was not homebrew but commercially made, but with lots of improvements.
But is was fun for me to do this and now I have a blast on 6 meters.
linky to radio:
http://www.gokarters.com/vbforum/showthread.php?p=14902#post14902

[M0GLO]

That's freakin' cool!

What's the output on that rig you built?

I got the same treatment on a boat anchor thread on eHam, "Why do you splatter the airwaves with that old crap! If you have the time to repair that old junk you must not have a job! My (place rig name/brand here) blows doors on that old piece of junk, what the hell is wrong with you, too cheap?" and many others to similar effect.

I told em to get stuffed and suggested the reason they didn't do the same was because they were incapable of understanding basic electronics. :twisted: :lol:
That must have hit home and hurt by some of the follow ups I got, not one of them saying they could actually fix their own rigs of course but lots of vitriol. :mrgreen:

Some people. :wall

[N2RJ]

I will tell you this. I was building a homebrew 6 meter rig and felt very proud in doing so. I even posted on a well known site. And was very much hurt when I saw the first reply from someone.


Why do you want to homebrew? You know anything you build can never approach what can be had by commercially built equipment. Forget all this homebrew nonsense and just be an appliance operator. You will find that expanding your mind is simply too much work. As a matter of fact, why do you even have a ham license? Cant you just be content with direct tv? You had better go find your TV remote for this homebrew crap gets out of hand.


Sounds exactly like KC5CSG. Fact is, he has shit for brains and couldn't even homebrew his own p*ss.

[WV6Z]

Sounds exactly like KC5CSG. Fact is, he has s*** for brains and couldn't even homebrew his own p*ss.

Could get nasty if you had to spend a few days with him in a car, huh? :geek

[n4aud]

Sounds exactly like KC5CSG. Fact is, he has s*** for brains and couldn't even homebrew his own p*ss.

I've tried to get along with Jerry, but I concur with your assessment.

[kk7ue]

Sounds exactly like KC5CSG. Fact is, he has s*** for brains and couldn't even homebrew his own p*ss.

I've tried to get along with Jerry, but I concur with your assessment.


You too! Here I thought it was just me. :P

[kc4umo]

That's freakin' cool!

What's the output on that rig you built?

I got the same treatment on a boat anchor thread on eHam, "Why do you splatter the airwaves with that old crap! If you have the time to repair that old junk you must not have a job! My (place rig name/brand here) blows doors on that old piece of junk, what the hell is wrong with you, too cheap?" and many others to similar effect.

I told em to get stuffed and suggested the reason they didn't do the same was because they were incapable of understanding basic electronics. :twisted: :lol:
That must have hit home and hurt by some of the follow ups I got, not one of them saying they could actually fix their own rigs of course but lots of vitriol. :mrgreen:

Some people. :wall

At the moment the rig puts out 14 watts. I can turn it down to 500 miliwatts. One day I heard some mumbling on call frequency. I throwed out my call and a station from cuba came back. Thought he was going to have an attack when I told him I was running less than one watt.
Thinking of adding a one tube to the rig. Maybe a 6146. Give it a little punch.

And thats giving it back to em!. You are most likely correct. They dont know how to fix jack.
I am the type of person that is going to try something just to find out myself. Too many times I see someone post something and others jump on them about what they are trying to do. Being if they are trying to convert a cb amp to amateur of just building a dipole.
I always thought ham radio was about learning through Experimentation .
Maybe I am wrong.
N2RJ,
Nope, want Jerry. It was actually an older ham. Can not remember the call. I will have to see if ican dig up that thread to see.

[N8YX]

Sounds exactly like KC5CSG. Fact is, he has s*** for brains and couldn't even homebrew his own p*ss.

I've tried to get along with Jerry, but I concur with your assessment.


You too! Here I thought it was just me. :P

He may not know how to "homebrew" anything but given his online track record and contemptuous attitude towards the amateur radio service I can guarantee he knows how to mod practically every late-model amateur HF rig for use on CB.

The guy inhabits 'Zed for no other reason than to start trouble. He has a "bird-of-a-feather" ally in KC9JIQ, a gent who openly supports N9OGL's pirate-radio efforts and appears to support "freebanding" and other nefarious radio activities.

Why do people such as this even bother to get an amateur license, especially if they continue their previous scofflaw behavior? And why brag about it on an amateur-radio website, for shitsake? Trying to rally others to "the cause", perhaps?

[N2RJ]

The guy inhabits 'Zed for no other reason than to start trouble. He has a "bird-of-a-feather" ally in KC9JIQ, a gent who openly supports N9OGL's pirate-radio efforts and appears to support "freebanding" and other nefarious radio activities.


And his justification is that he is a member of the US military so he is basically above the law.

What an ass, and a disgrace to the service.

[M0GLO]

No one is above the law.

Too bad my name ain't Riley Hollingsworth...

[ka4dpo]

Don't feel bad, according to some well informed sources in III Corps Wally (Jerry) is not well liked in his unit. He evidently displays the same attitude in real life. Wally will probably get passed over.

[W4KLB]

:nosey: you misunderstand ham radio is learning by experance you by stuff try it out by more stuf eventually you find something you can make work and you become a pontif and you just sit around and potifacate. :shifty :shifty

[N2RJ]

Anyway, those are some nice radios!

Better than anything I've built. Well I shouldn't say anything... I built a nice regen receiver when I was in high school. Used a single 2n3819 FET and an LM386 for the audio stage. AM broadcast band though.

[n2ize]

Those are really cool.

And you are right. It is a lost art.
But why?
Is it because of the way AR has become?
Is it because there is no more walk in electronic shops to hunt for that special part?
Is it because that "Elmers" of old are gone and others will not step up to help?

I will tell you this. I was building a homebrew 6 meter rig and felt very proud in doing so. I even posted on a well known site. And was very much hurt when I saw the first reply from someone.


Why do you want to homebrew? You know anything you build can never approach what can be had by commercially built equipment. Forget all this homebrew nonsense and just be an appliance operator. You will find that expanding your mind is simply too much work. As a matter of fact, why do you even have a ham license? Cant you just be content with direct tv? You had better go find your TV remote for this homebrew crap gets out of hand.

That almost got the best of me. I know my radio was not the best looking radio around. And I know the main board was not homebrew but commercially made, but with lots of improvements.
But is was fun for me to do this and now I have a blast on 6 meters.
linky to radio:
http://www.gokarters.com/vbforum/showthread.php?p=14902#post14902

Are you sure that the guy who wrote that negative comment about home brewing wasn't being facetious ? Many hams tend to have a very dry sense of humour.

However, regardless, don't listen to fools who tell you not to home brew or tell you not to restore or modify or use old rigs. The whole hobby was once about building, modifying, restoring, and working on your own equipment. As a matter of fact, in the old days. when a ham got his first Novice class license it was EXPECTED that he was going to build his own transmitter and possibly even receiver as well.

Anyone can go to the ham store and buy an appliance, plug it in and turn it on. But it takes skill to build your own, or to work on and rebuild, restore, modify and old rig. And when you finally have that rig up and running and doing what it was meant to do the feeling of satisfaction is far greater than anything an appliance operator could ever dream or imagine.

[kc4umo]

Are you sure that the guy who wrote that negative comment about home brewing wasn't being facetious ? Many hams tend to have a very dry sense of humour.



Not really sure what the guys attempt was meant to be. I am at to point now where criticism does not bother me. I do like good criticism. I have done so much home brewing lately I can not keep up with it. But that is what I like doing. I get more satisfaction out of a project than I do talking on a radio. One of my latest is a digital satellite positioning system. Using a simple “smart level”. And its seems to be coming along fine.

Thanks for the advice.