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Re: some reservations.....
Fred Smith <mfsj@...>
Hi Roy
In recent months on the Elecraft reflector (QTH) a lot of email addresses have been jacked and I get no less than 15 spam or porn emails a day it happens no matter where you are. Ask President Bush and the Secret Service than you won't mind yahoo.
Fred/N0AZZ
From: 4sqrp@... [mailto:4sqrp@...] On Behalf Of Roy
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 9:42 AM To: 4sqrp@... Subject: [4sqrp] some reservations.....
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Re: Back to QRP stuff
Kelly E
David,
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I think you will really like it. I've had one for over a year, and it is probably my favorite due to the SWR indicator. Probably the toughest part is lining up the polyvaricon cap as it is a tight fit to avoid shorting the board. I typically use about 3-4 ft of "counterpoise" just enough to contact the ground a bit from my rollup camping table. I does a great job and I have had lots of contacts using it, though now I have been using jumper dipoles more than the EFHW as it seems most of my QSO's are in the 1000mile range and the signals are a bit stronger with less noise than the sloper or vertical EFHW offer. A bit more work to get the dipole up but I have some great trees in a nearby lakeside park and can get an inverted vee up 40-45 ft with my trusty slingshot and archery reel setup. I also use WA5BDU's matcher with my 40-20m EFHW antennas with good results. A trick with Nick's matcher is to find your wire length at the sites you typically operate and for new sites you can lower the SWR a bit by playing with the length if you have problems finding a match. I use those little spring loaded push buttons you find on camping gear closures and fold wire back upon itself to give some flexibility for lengthening or shortening depending on the site and its impact on the setup. A bit more up and down if you are a purist and like to squeeze a few more milliwatts into the ether! 72, Kelly K4UPG
On 2/12/2013 11:21 AM, David Martin wrote:
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Re: Photos
davemrtn
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Back to QRP stuff
davemrtn
I ordered the End Fed Half Wave Tuner last week and received it in the mail yesterday (Monday 2/11/2013), see link.....
http://betterqrp.com/ Planning to build it tonight. Lousy weather in the forecast for the next few days so it may be a while before I can give it a try outside. Can anybody share your experiences with this neat little tuner ? I guess now, I can post some pictures along the way of my new little project......... -- *David Martin - K5DCM ---o0o--- Mountain Home, Arkansas* Guns don't kill people, any more than spoons & forks cause obesity. Liberals want "Freedom of Choice" for Abortion (to kill a baby), but would deny us the same "Freedom of Choice" to defend ourselves.
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Re: some reservations.....
Roy AC9DN
Don,
I do appreciate the list and all the work that you have done to make it exist. I did not mean for my term "some reservations" to be a complaint in any way and I want to quickly say I'm sorry if it came across that way
to you. I have nothing but HAPPINESS from being a member of 4SQRP and I appreciate all the ideas, links, discussions and encouragement the members have been over the years.
Just wish I could convince the wife to move back to Kansas......... Roy AC9DN
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Re: Photos
Don Jackson
On 02/12/2013 09:51 AM, bobby wrote:
Don't forget to move all of the great files and pictures over to our newThose are on the 4sqrp.com website, not the reflector. There are no changes to the website. However, the new Yahoo Groups page offers you and all other members a chance to post your own photos, files, etc. It would be my hope that the webmaster might see fit to copy some of those over to the website where they are more visible or presentable. He can cherry pick for the best material if he wants. Don AE5K
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Re: Joined Group
davemrtn
I wasn't going to respond but.........
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Amazing how many people 'focused' on my comments about yahoo, instead of my cudos for 'Four State QRP Group'.
On 02/12/2013 08:18 AM, David Martin wrote:
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*David Martin - K5DCM ---o0o--- Mountain Home, Arkansas* Guns don't kill people, any more than spoons & forks cause obesity. Liberals want "Freedom of Choice" for Abortion (to kill a baby), but would deny us the same "Freedom of Choice" to defend ourselves.
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Photos
bobby rolph
Don't forget to move all of the great files and pictures over to our new home!
Bobby kb4qnr
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Re: Yahoo Groups
Dale Putnam
I'm a member of 34 Yahoo groups, and don't recall having any issues.. what is it that I should be so watchful for? Have a great day, --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy To: 4sqrp@... From: w2bpi1@... Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:38:08 +0000 Subject: [4sqrp] Re: Yahoo Groups Fred, I agree with you. Have been in yahoo groups for years with no problems ever. 72 George/W2BPI
--- In 4sqrp@..., "Fred Smith" wrote:
> > I don't mean to be combative but I've been on the yahoo groups for years and > never had any problems. I see some posting how bad it is to have moved the > group here what exactly are the problems you have with yahoo, and when were > they. > > > > > > 73, > > Fred/N0AZZ >
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KC0PET Here
Rick Bennett
I have moved over. For what it is worth, I doesn't matter which venue is used to host the reflector. It is the people in the group that make it what it is. This is the best e-mail reflector group I have ever belonged to hands down.
I see there are 129 people here already. I hope we can somehow bring all 569 members over. There have been some great threads lately, I haven't jumped in for a while because of plain busy-ness, but really enjoying the discussions, particularly the one about favorite QRP rigs. de KC0PET, Rick
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some reservations.....
Roy AC9DN
Yahoo seems to be easy for hackers to get into, so that is
why I am a bit uneasy about changing. Seems that I frequently see that a person's email address book is raided and used for SPAM. I assume it hasn't happened to me as I've never received a complaint about it. I worked a European CW station this week who was proudly running 800 watts. When he asked my power, I told him: "five." He said: "Five hundred?" I told him: "No, five." "Oh," he said, "fifty can make it across the water sometimes but it' not reliable." I didn't bother to tell him that the landlord found my wire antenna running through the garage at my apartment house and removed it. Since then I've been using the shield of the remaining coax and tuning it against 50 turns of wire on a plastic tube on the floor of my media room. Roy AC9DN (was KV8KV, and before that, KEØUQ)
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Re: Yahoo Groups
George H. Gates
Fred, I agree with you. Have been in yahoo groups for years with no problems ever. 72 George/W2BPI
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Re: Yahoo Groups
Barney <barneyro@...>
I have several other
accounts on Yahoo and all seem
to work FB. I never use the yahoo account for email and have a
strong password there. So far, so good..
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73 Barney
On 2/12/2013 9:19 AM, N8VCL wrote:
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Hello Group
pb266 <nu0s@...>
Hey I made it over to the new Yahoo Group...
Thanks Don... 72/73/Scotty/NU0S
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Re: Yahoo Groups - back to QRP
Bill Cromwell
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 09:12 -0600, Wayne Dillon wrote:
Hi, Anybody who is happy with Yahoo should go out and celebrate. Some of us will do what we can to make this less obnoxious. Some of our friends are just plain gone and we will not see them on here again. It's happened with other lists that moved to Yahoo and Google. I expressed my own disappointment. That doesn't mean anybody else has to be disappointed though I'm clearly not the only one. Please...let's not get a big long winded, flame generating, far off topic discussion about the merits or lack thereof with Yahoo, Google, MSN, QTH.NET, Blondes, Redheads, etc. It's not going to change anybody's mind and will only make hard feelings. And now back to your regularly scheduled program - QRP ham radio operations (grin). I need to get my Dentron 80 meter low power transceiver back in operation. 73, Bill KU8H
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Re: Yahoo Groups
N8VCL
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Wayne Dillon <wayne.dillon@...> wrote:
Chief among the benefits is that the group and discussion carry on. That's all I care about, and I've never had missing mail with a Yahoo group. Thanks Don! Scott -- FP #930 / Pig Rig #118 (unbuilt) SKCC #3083 4SQRP #558 OMISS #5084
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Re: I'm here...
Don Jackson
On 02/12/2013 08:36 AM, Tom wrote:
As long as I receive my daily load of QRP related messages I'm a happyThey will most likely be put on the 4sqrp website, dependent on the webmaster of course. Don AE5K
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Re: Yahoo Groups
Wayne Dillon
Good morning Fred,
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I think it's just resistance to change, Yahoo groups has had some bad press in the early days regarding groups but I honestly believe the criticisms probably be directed at poorly setting up of the individual group than at Yahoo. Just look at the SKCC, great group and administration, and that is the key word. I sit on several and have had no issue with them, I think once it settles down folks will discover that there are way more benefits than detriments. just my $0.02 worth.
72/3 es God Bless de Wayne - KC0PMH
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Fred Smith <mfsj@...> wrote:
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Yahoo Groups
Fred Smith <mfsj@...>
I don't mean to be combative but I've been on the yahoo groups for years and never had any problems. I see some posting how bad it is to have moved the group here what exactly are the problems you have with yahoo, and when were they.
73, Fred/N0AZZ
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Re: I'm here...
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