Current rank?

[KB2SFH]

Maybe I am looking in the wrong places or it never existed or it vanished and I am senile anyway but wasn't there a list or key type chart that showed each members rank such as tribal elder and how many posts to make to get to the next rank name?:dunno::scratch_head:

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Maybe I am looking in the wrong places or it never existed or it vanished and I am senile anyway but wasn't there a list or key type chart that showed each members rank such as tribal elder and how many posts to make to get to the next rank name?:dunno::scratch_head:


Yes, I posted it somewhere quite a while ago. I'll grab another copy from the cfg panel and post it here in a few minutes.

Here is the chart:

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[KB2SFH]

Yes, I posted it somewhere quite a while ago. I'll grab another copy from the cfg panel and post it here in a few minutes.

Here is the chart:

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Thanks so much for posting it but I could have sworn it once had an icon button on the toolbar

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A "Top Twenty" list of our most prolific posters (by rank, user name, Title, # posts, last visit):



1
KG4CGC
"Island Bartender
48,936
Today


2
n2ize
"Volcano Tamer"
33,899
01/08/2021


3
K6BSO
"Pope Carlo I"
29,080
10/21/2020


4
W0TKX
"Whacker Knot"
26,651
Today


5
N8YX
"Administrator"
25,633
Today


6
KC2UGV
"Volcano Tamer"
22,590
01/04/2021


7
N2NH
"Istanbul Expert"
22,361
07/07/2017


8
W3WN
"Volcano Tamer"
18,140
Today


9
K7SGJ
"La Rata Del Desierto"
16,971
10/15/2019


10
w2amr
"SK Member 4/29/2020"
16,259
01/30/2020


11
ad4mg
"Administrator"
14,473
Today


12
N1LAF
"Volcano Tamer"
13,893
01/24/2021


13
kb2vxa
"Grumpy old bastid"
12,806
02/02/2021


14
N7YA
"Volcano Tamer"
12,105
11/14/2020


15
PA5COR
"Volcano Tamer"
11,912
Today


16
KB3LAZ
"Island Vampire"
11,536
06/08/2019


17
W3MIV
"SK Member 12/16/2011
11,173
12/12/2011


18
kf0rt
"Volcano Tamer"
11,068
04/10/2017


19
NA4BH
"Island Godfather"
10,933
10/10/2020


20
W1GUH
"SK Member 5/25/2015"
10,471
03/07/2015


I note some of our 'busiest' members haven't been here in a while. I also sadly note that 3 on our list are no longer with us.

[N8YX]

I'll try to contribute more tech-related stuff as I complete various projects and document them. One thing I'm trying to accomplish at the moment is to get a couple of Optoelectronics Optocom receivers to talk to my new copy of ScanStar's Spectrum Commander IX. These are essentially a RadShack Pro-2042 scanner plus OS535 interface in a black box; they have discriminator outputs and multiple CI-V interfaces on the rear panels. Thoughts are to connect 2ea IC-R7000s to the Optocoms, letting the Icoms run in "handoff mode" while the Optocoms - via SC-IX and DSDecode - track our various trunking systems.

The R7000 - dated though it may be - is still a MUCH better analog receiver than any of the R/S-Uniden scanners I have. With discriminator taps and DSDecode doing the D/A conversion, they'll make an effective platform for NXDN, DMR and MotoTrbo monitoring. IF (gigantic IF) I can get the Optocoms and Spectrum Commander to work together. :wall:

[KC9ECI]

I should have stopped at Coconut King.

[KG4CGC]

I should have stopped at Coconut King.

I don't know. You seem to be navigating that beer in your avatar pretty darn well!

When I hit Master Navigator I started using WWII pilots and VFR navigation tools as avatars.

[KG4CGC]

BTW, just call me Professor Prolificus. LOL!

[kb2vxa]

Good grief Charles, you're something else! What I don't know. (;->) Speaking of WW2 pilots, have you noticed the movies about The Tuskegee Airmen aka Redtails have found their way to TV? I have several with GREAT dogfight scenes. It's damn well about time those brave men considered expendable sent on the most dangerous missions where they proved their mettle finally got the honor and recognition well deserved both by the military and the media!

Avatars are one thing, using military radio equipment is quite another and quite a treat. I wonder if The Military Radio Net is still active. The closest I came was restoring a couple of R390 receivers using the thick as a NY Telephone directory service manual. One went into climate controlled storage, and using one on an AM Gangsta station all broadcast from mic to antenna except for the receiver and a Johnson Valiant I modified to use line level audio from the DA direct to the modulators. The rest of the all broadcast was 3 1KW AM transmitters tuned for 160M giving a total of 6 crystal controlled frequencies. Now what was that comment about doing AM Gangsta shit again? (;->)

[N8YX]

I wonder if The Military Radio Net is still active.

Dennis Starks, KB0SFP runs daily milsurp equipment nets and has several Groups.io groups dedicated to the various lines of hardware including manpack setups. I met Dennis at Dayton once and bought two of four pieces from a Cubic Kilowatt from him. The complete, working Kilowatt is in a basement rack. It doesn't operate AM but another Cubic of that vintage (which is also mounted in the rack) will transmit AME.

[kb2vxa]

As Arte Johnson used to say in his WW2 German costume, veeerrry interesting. Those R390s were Collins, others were even made by Ford, and darn if I can remember which Army "mobile" station used the Collins 30L1 KW amp. Funny thing about WW2 military radio, anything that could be moved with a fork lift was mobile. Remember the TV series 12 O'clock High? Every bit of the base radio station was authentic right down to the BC610. The last R390s I saw in the Surplus Sales of Nebraska catalog were "demilitarized" with the radium dial dB meters removed, (VU meters work but look so phony) they stopped glowing long ago but the paint is still slightly radioactive. Laws are often quite senseless, radium is an alpha emitter. Alpha particles consist of 2 protons & 2 neutrons with low penetration stopped by a few centimeters of air or skin. That being the case there's no way they can penetrate the glass front or metal case of the meters that were in those intact receivers I restored. Unfortunately very little US military radio surplus is to be had since it now is all classified and instead of the surplus market it goes in the shredder. The last I saw on the market was British some years ago, man packs were of the Clansman series. I remember the 60s before Manhattan's Mercantile District was razed to make way for the World Trade Center Complex. In the heart of it was Radio Row where I had to step over and around tons of surplus radio gear on the sidewalk to get around. If Archie Bunker was a ham he and Edith would have sung a very different tune!

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Two new titles have been added at 5,000 and 10,000 posts per suggestions by Sue, KB2SFH. The revised list reads as follows:

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Several members (anyone over 10,000 posts in particular) have new titles! This excludes customized personal titles, which we are receptive to adding upon request.

[N8YX]

Do we have any members titled "Usual Suspect" yet? :snicker:

[WZ7U]

Pick me! Pick me!

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Pick me! Pick me!

Well...

OK!

:lol:

[kb2vxa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHE4KZoQIqk

[VE7DCW]

Well...

OK!

:lol:
Well done Luke.......and on mine as well! :dance:

[WZ7U]

Well...

OK!

:lol:

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