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So for everybody out there, it is a Monday out Happy Land and pay attention again blue skies here in the southern part of the state, temperate east and up north and we are looking at a very busy week. towards the end of the month we still got some time guys today is Tuesday it is of course communications Tuesday the first six-year open Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation about America with a K two thousand and fourteen older Mayan crown coaster-dumb so anyway however that's gonna work as it is need to be taking care of business with regard to and something I brought up touch on again about big boxes. What I mean by big boxes are older short-wave transceivers. A lot of stuff that's out there, everything has been tiny-fied, which is really cool. Tiny-fied is cool. Tiny-fied is nice. And tiny-fied typically can't be fixed. Does everybody understand that? What happens when your radio goes bad? for thirty nine or forty dollars. It's expensive enough that it's a purchasing issue that you have to deal with and you have to think ahead about. So you plan and you choose a system and you run with that puppy. When something goes bad on it, there ain't a whole lot of anybody or most people are going to do because it's just cheap enough to be almost or not quite bite you in the butt. Although it's still a bite, the twenty seven dollars and twenty seven dollars in two thousand and fourteen. Okay, like still, ouch, it hurts. The reliability factor is high enough that everybody accepts that. But we're talking about going into another type system here where yes, we can get a radio. We can buy radios that are compressed, small, and cover the entire spectrum of radio communication. Really? In one box. Not much larger than a couple of mid-sized CBs stacked one on top of the other. Okay, maybe a little wider, by about three, four inches. But basically what you're looking at is a pretty decent little compressed system. Now there are two things about that they don't really talk about number one all your eggs in one basket means that if something breaks all your eggs are broken, right? In other words if any minor thing goes out doesn't doesn't have anything big be something minor one of the problems is that But I'm going to get rid of the idea of doing that but I'm explaining to you the issues of when you do and how you should apply that to a in that toolbox. Does everybody understand that? Now, the reason I bring up big boxes and old boxes is that we have a number of transceivers all over. We can hit the switch and we're going to, we literally would kick, we'll pick it up and we'll pick the emergency broadcasting mechanism up. It's one of the tricks we learned from our Civil Defense operators, especially actually the three sisters that are in the Cleveland area. They were on instruction and database material that they had that is hit the red button. It really goes to Helen Hancart. Everybody's going to know all at once. And it's going to be all she wrote, but probably again, we'll be kicking off and going into a major land battle inside the US. It'll start up in whatever's pickle-eight and escalate. Now, something that might be a good project. Look for a Heathcat. Fill in the blank for your shortwave, a ham opera, you know, basement. Now, for modern tech. I'm talking going mid-age. Maybe you're the second, maybe the third, maybe it's off the rack where somebody's pile of these, they've brought and they do. Some guys, this is what they specialize in. Now you lift the hood and you look inside the box. A lot of these will be a combination of tube and solid state radios, which is, however, because all the tubes are there, doesn't mean all those tubes work that well. But we can live with that idea. Now we have to do some research because you first of all need to know if I'm going to work on that car and it's got a carburetor, well the engine's fairly cheap or at least you know it works and it's reasonably priced if I had to replace it even or rebuild it. What's it cost for the carburetor? What about accoutrements and spare parts? The other spare parts that keep the system running. can I get alternators? What do they cost? Can I have it rebuilt? Probably have to have the alternator rebuilt rather than buying new because if the car is old enough it's going to cost money. Well the same is true with working with radios. What you want to do is look at it and ask yourself what is the price of any primary tubes that I may have to replace? Now it doesn't mean you can't do by swapping, trading at the Amfest. You can't. But what you're doing is it's like buying a 57 Chevy and you deciding if you want to soup it up or if you want to leave it factory original and match your part for what they look like their factory. Now this is not a bad thing, this is a very good idea. And in the process of doing this again, you can become very skilled and understand your skills. You'll develop the skills necessary to fully understand that ham radio you're putting into the field. Now we're not talking about a backpack radio guys, we're talking about a desktop transceiver. And again, from top You lift a hood there, you check it, you ask guys, see if you're used car dealer, the, oh I'm sorry, the IAM operator, how much he knows about the piece of equipment. If he's only got one or two, it might be even his own radio. If he's got more than a few, or if even he has that one, it might be just that he made a deal or made even a trade that morning before the doors even opened up, and he wants to move that radio. Well, the more you get with a better off yard, number one, when you make a trade, just like at a gun show, you try to get all you can for a reasonable price. preferably for the price that he was asking. But again, you ticker back and forth, you negotiate. Again, this part of the barter and bargaining thing, guys. You need to work on that anyway. If you don't know how to do that, you need to go to the ham fest. You need to start working on that, just like at the gun shows. Sometimes, OK, flat rate, OK, cool. But if there's something it's got a pretty high price on it, you start talking down. You start low from the low end, work your way up, he starts high, works his way down. You meet somewhere in a happy point and everybody smiles and waves. You got what you wanted, maybe. They got what they wanted, maybe. And everybody... Now, with regard to rebuilding, the first thing is basic cleaning and maintenance, guys. Most common mistakes and most common problem with electronics, even with your computers. Dust. Some people never lift the hood. Maybe they bought the radio, they kept it for years, they really did, you know, they were kind of in the periphery with ham operation. Fred told me he did the radio, they bought it. They played with it, then they got kind of lazy, and they didn't do the maintenance. And after a while, but, you know, Transceiver got fuzzy. You know, I had problems with the upper range or lower range on frequency. Well, when you lift up the hood and there's dust bunnies, The first thing you want to do is clean everything up. Don't turn a whole lot of dials before you do a basic once over. And there's some nice little kits you can buy right now that actually hook up to your standard vacuum that are precision cleaning kits for doing computers, which also are useful for radio maintenance. Now you also be careful because there's one thing under the hood there that really is not your friend. Now I won't say right off the bat, you all know water electricity do not mix, right? Water electricity do not mix. Hey, water and electricity don't mix. So be careful and pay attention to your environment, number one. Number two, Mr. Is Not Your Friend. Mr. Capacitor is not your friend. I told you, Mr. Capacitor is not your friend. Okay? You ever touch if it's charged? Now, there's a bad thing. If you're not real careful when you lift the hood, depending on how big that transver is for output, becoming part of the capacitor kit, you know, crossing a screwdriver over the p- You know, making a bridge, you becoming a bridge, and you maybe touching the bar of that screwdriver, because you were just fiddle-parting with something, and you had your finger there, and you went against the millivrige, and you weren't paying attention and... Well, actually, well, you might need some CPR. So y'all better pay attention and learn how to again discharge the capacity. But y'all also don't just reach in and start, well look at what that does! You know, grabbing the metal-y thingy and poking at somethin' and oooh! Hehehehe! You know, doing the monkey poke thing? Monkey poking the back of televisions or heavy radio equipment. Or for that man under the hood of a car, he's probably not a good thing. He's like, what are you doing? All my fingers are gone. Yeah, under the car is really bad. That's mechanical too, but... Again, rule number one is, again, do a little research. It's not hard because there are a myriad, and I mean whatever area you want and however much you want in the way of information. My God, the one thing that radio geeks love to do is books on the subject of radio. So if you can't find what you need on it, search around. You will. In multiples. Okay? And everything from basic maintenance. In fact, there are great videos on YouTube, the whole nine yards. But, remember, it's basic rules. Water and electricity do not mix. Okay, just because it's unplugged doesn't mean there's power under the hood. The other thing is, don't broken pry or bend things. Don't try to force something. If you don't know how it comes apart, because things come apart in different ways depending upon the year you open the hood and says, well, I've kind of seen that before. stop unless you're making this a disassembly product project just to figure out how things come apart even then you're not worried about it, we're not even getting back together. If you don't know, stop. Freeze where you are and do restore enough of a database out there. Now why one of these big boxes? Well number one guys it's a great way to keep good radio equipment online but also the advantage here is you're going to take a piece of equipment and make it yours. If you're wise You will pick out several pieces of equipment of the same model and have your friends work together in the same kind of project or let's say that you want to establish more than one radio base. Your best bet is to pick a system, a model, and it's complementary to the other system. Two reasons. Number one, spare parts have nothing else. Maybe you have to pare down down the road because no parts are available, imports cease, too much stuff is scrapped, everything has been damaged. You know, end of the world kind of stuff. Catching dogs, living together, total chaos, you know, goes by. Anyway, the fact of the matter is, think ahead. Now you should also be building up spare parts. And let's remind everybody about tube technology and how it works. Tubes have a progressive life span. As a tube runs in perpetual service, especially with radio stations, you will find that radio stations diminish in frequency range. This happens. See, it doesn't seem like it's as clear as it used to be. Man, I used to get that station really clean and now it's fuzzy. One of the reasons is that as the machine runs, the tubes, of course, they are progressively wearing down, using up their life cycle. Now, even on your little transmitter, your transceiver that you're buying, if you've got it and all the tubes are there, doing a meter, doing a continuity test on everything, first of all, is a good idea. There are a number of reasons before you power anything up. You want to inspect everything anyway. But in addition to that, remember that while the guy may have sold you a radio that has all of the tubes that are there, Bipumbra and nomenclature, it doesn't mean that all those tubes at the same level in terms of lifespan. In fact, certain tubes, maybe he bought that set because he wanted that 401-A, and that 401-A tube is kind of pricey right now. He did not give you one. He gave you one that only has 30% of its life available. Now, you don't get pissed and grab that tube and throw it against the wall like they try to show you in all these BS movies. because 30% is better than 0%. And without the 2, you don't have the circuit complete. Without the circuit complete, you have no transceiver. First rule is we don't destroy older components that we may have to withdraw from CIRP because again, it's a matter of percentages. Or even if it's technically burned out, if it is as intricate a component, or if it's any intricate component, maybe it's not worth rebuilding for the moment But down the road, as things get more desperate, you'll have to resort to older processes. Let me give you a little heads up here. We used to, video geeks, done that in, well, 40 years, how to do it. And I actually could, you know, in fact, we even worked at blowing, you know, blowing glass or how to work glass, and how to make vacuum tubes from a number of different objects that were off the shelf and available, or rebuilding a vacuum tube. Now that sounds like it's really incredible work in reality. It's not it's actually quite low-tech Hey, dad, it's very simple and I'm gonna remind you out in the office here on one of the bookshelves We've got the books that monahan gave me on how to precisely do that rebuild vacuum to exact rebuild them because you can rebuild them using the existing tube and The most important thing about this to remember is again guys here. We have a situation where well when radio came about Go back through the history of radio. We go anything, anytime we can find books on, you know, from an era, the teens, the 20s, the 30s, the 40s. We grab all of that and it's on the shelf here. Magazines, publications. Well guys, you better take a look at how simple the technology was starting out. Remember that even coiling crystal, you grew your own crystal, you built your own resin version cover. And how many wraps do I need for how much resistance? Do I need five wraps? Seven? Nine wraps? What do I need to make that resistor work? You mean that's how they do it? Yes, that's how it's done. That's the simplest version. That's the oldest version. So anyway, it's all a matter of regulating the electron flow in some form or another. Now, those old tubes, look at the intricacy of the inside of the tube and understand that they wouldn't build it the way they did if it didn't serve a purpose. Now, Looking at most of these more intricate tubes, typically one of the most common problems, one element or another may actually have, through thermal transfer, to the point where it virtually breaks down and degrades. Even if it's tungsten, or if that is carbon filament, or if it's copper, or if it's titanium, platinum, there are any number of metals that were used for microfilaments or for minor filaments in tubes. There are different reasons for them. Some are used as literally as a thermal switch. And the different values of the different metals determine, or the thickness of the metal determines, how long before enough calories build up. The circuit will break, and then it will cool and reattach, and then break, and then reattach, and then break. And it's a sequencing system. A mechanical using calorie buildup and calorie transfer sequencing system. Now, once you understand what everything does, because you do a little bit of research, but even if you don't, the basic rule is, did that tube work? Other than it broke vacuum or may have lost vacuum? I mean, things get old. Entropy is the biggest killer of everything, guys. Run. And not just run, wearing down. They naturally do. You'll have to replace them. So, when you're looking at all of these things, all of these, these, these, don't throw the bad one away, especially if maybe you can't find another one. Number one, I found the bad part! I'll try it out and go get another one. No. you out. So hang on to the original because you might have to either rebuild it or you may have to be tedious. Yeah, back in the day that was the norm. And many of the older radio sets you'll run into don't look as fancy or as pretty, but they were completely home built. The operator that made them that, you know, beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep, used to key on that thing, that machine. Squawk on it, the early talk radio. He built it from scratch. Hell, he even made the microphone and the earphones that he was both wearing and talking into. All this technology came from somewhere. We don't even have to go that primitive with regard to the equipment to make the stuff work. We just need to understand and know the basics and be able to understand how things built up because we may have to bridge old, new technology or middle-aged technology with older technology. Why? Because it was already done. Everything I'm talking about has already been done in radio. There's so many combinations of stuff that's been put together. But basic maintenance, first of all, comes down to inspection, a basic cleaning without moving parts, and then at further inspection. And the reason for inspecting, number one, look up our dust build-ups, or where there may be oxidation, where there could be carbon build. It's something burnt. Now once we do that, we've taken note of the components and we've mapped out schematic, what we have under there that we have to deal with. Then we're going to clean it up, then we're going to look at it again, and we're going to inspect to confirm the suspected parts that may be a problem. In addition, there are certain things like variable rheostats. There are connector points. There are switches that in general will need to be cleaned over a period of time. Crud, they collect dust. They are fine contact surfaces. All it takes is a little bit of buildup, a little bit of fuzz, in the air. A little bit of cat hair, it could be any number of things. Dog hair. Could be mouse droppings. Could be anything. But what happens is it collects into those surfaces and it latches on because it works like a clothesline clip. Works like a bobby pin. So what you need to do is remember that very carefully. We never pry. We inspect and then we lightly lever to inspect. something away. Don't start cranking on stuff. Remember, these are not micro components, but they are small components and they have a limited amount of tensile strength. You know, bending something back and wondering why it doesn't bend back where it belongs when you kind of used a crowbar where all you needed was a toothpick, you know, kind of, you know, it hurts. because now you get to replace a part or you gotta disassemble something to make everything go back to where it belongs. Another thing, when you're doing maintenance, cotton balls, Mr. Q-tip is your friend by lots of them. Don't forget, air, it can be canned or you can even have a little one of these little micro compressors they make now that offer clean air that's already minimized for moisture. Remember, water and electricity are not your friend. Water and all of these materials that are metal are water's not their friend. Copper will oxidize. bad battery and the back end of a little walkman and you open it up and it's already leaking and you take it out and oh man look at the gunk in there. Now it doesn't mean it can't be fixed but remember it had a little piece of chrome, it had a little chrome wash on the parts. Notice how when the acid got hold of that, how long that little wash of chrome lasted on that metal? Not very, right? So again, what you want to remember is that you're going to need to be neutralizing, you want to collect, you want to first of all evacuate the debris, you want to look where there's oxidation, and again investigate. There are some procedures, some of them homemade, that work very well to get rid of brass oxidation, copy, without eating up material. Remember, a lot of these parts are not micro fine, but they are fine parts. Almost to the point in some cases where they're precision jewels, they're jewels thinking that way. Now the other thing is meters and other components. There are things you can add on either online, onto a line or a connector or whatever. If your radio doesn't have all the meters you were told you needed, in other words, for instance, you want an SWR meter on your line if you're going to be doing a PAM radio operation, a few other onboard example in this day and age, and heat is an issue. Heat has always been an issue with radio's will operate and have to have a certain amount of temperature a certain amount of calories built operated a particular Opticure range on occasion depending on the model now all of them, but Drake's ran warm They give you had a little bit of a problem or if dust or a crud and they were not properly ventilated They are in by the way they would try and could pretty well figure out what was going on so but don't make a mistake you got a drink or an old record don't you get rid of that they're prices will be still on the bill like a big doghouse they run forever there's a lot of equipment out there like this understand and know what their nuances are don't worry about all the red because they were people like ford's and they don't like chevys some people like chevys make christlers some people make christmas chevys and ford's and they want to be a double you trade information understand that there are two things going on their personal grudges agendas because of press I want you to make more, I want them to make more Schmidlap radios. So I'm going to help you guys to make sure that they make more Schmidlap radios by getting you to buy Schmidlap radios. Remember that there's marketing going on on top of everything else. Basically, if the radio got into production, it works. Now how well it works is determined by the skill of Minto, especially in the mid boxes from the 60s and 70s that are very fine pieces of equipment, but they are in every industry. I don't care if it's both. snowmobiles, even cars. When was the last time you guys bought a Hudson? Any of you buy a Hudson last year? You didn't? You didn't buy a Hudson, but there's Hudson's floating around out there. By the way, those were made right here in Michigan. And the one Hudson plant was where? Oh, it was right there at the Willow Run Airport plant where they made the B-24 bombers. First they made the B-24 bombers, they made a bunch of other vehicles and stuff, then they made flying box cars, you know, the double boom rear end. Yeah, they made the flying box car there too under Kaiser. And then they made more cars. Hudson was one of the vehicle companies that was there in that complex, okay? We don't buy any Hudson's, Hudson's an awfully nice car. In fact, the reason I mention Hudson's is because one of those cars where you could step into it, guys. And he was so comfortable. Go find a full-sized Hudson. yourself, my God, now that they've made cars lighter, why don't they build cars like this so I don't squeeze into something. Instead, I could actually have a luxury automobile that could be a Ford of any American could own. Well, that's another side bar for somebody else. Anyway, radios work the same way. There are orphans now. The only consideration there is, remember, you may not be able to find, with regard to certain specialized parts, everything off the shelf from the factory original. But remember that with electronic technology you have values. So you might not have, in other words, everything, you know, it's kind of like heating and ventilation, sucking and blowing, kids. There's only so many things you can do with electrical components. Now, each company had their own, you know, breed of component, in many cases earlier on or as America was wealthy when we had industry, we actually had companies in each one built their own parts, in many cases. They had their own little sub-production line for building variable rheostats or building transformers or buildings that don't have exactly what you need. In other words, it's worn to the point where I just can't use this and I'm not going to rebuild it. Well, rather than panic and think now I'm going to have to spend an eternity filing little parts and building little components and doing what Mark said, remember that if you're not worried about this thing being a perfect museum classic, There are many other cross-referenced components that will replace equipment on your radio. An example is that Drake and Moffee and Green Machine and a bunch of these companies all had their own paint and they had different knobs on the outside. In many cases, the contractor that built, for instance, the many components we're talking about, built them for more than one company. So you can go to two things. You can go back to the Hamfest and go through the, you know, the wrecks, a shipwreck. You know, somebody's already been picking parts up when they needed. They just had to throw it back underneath the table. Or maybe they got a old truck full of stuff and they, you know, put a tent up. Well, however they do it, when you find that you're looking, you know, what you do is ID the parts that need to be replaced, cross-reference for the companies that may, the brands that may have them. and then start using your eyeballs to go to the ham press and start chopping. Ask questions too. Hey, I'm looking for a power supply. Hey, I'm looking for a full range freewheeling variable rheostat. I don't want one that's locked and post so that it can only sweep back and forth. I want full range. I don't care whether or not I'm just going to be spinning the dial and I'm not going freewheeling. I'm not just going to spin it like a safe and see where she ends or a cylinder in a gangster movie where I spin the cylinder and slam the crane shut there along her muck up my... I'm not going to do that with the... In fact, I'm going to be controlling that variable wrist by nano motion. I hear ball. You notice I didn't say eyeball. I said ear ball. I'm trying to tune that rig in because I want to bring the ring crystal clear. See, so again, guys, there are things that you can do or substitute. Know how, I can't answer every question in a program like this, each rig, each piece of technology has variances depending upon era and manufacturer. Some manufacturers refuse to change certain things. Why? Because they worked. where everybody had the latest gimmick and they all went to the latest gimmick, guys, there were whole radio companies that died because of gimmicks. Seriously, because everybody needed that gimmick. And you know what? The gimmick was the weak point and the gimmick was so integrated to so much junk that it virtually sank the radio company. I'm serious. And not only that, but when they came up with this gimmick, oh, they bought it from overseas or they bought it from somebody. Multi-boards were a big thing. Cheapie multi-boards. Oh, they look great. They look fantastic. Oh, man, it's Space Age. But these little multi-boards that were added on, and I'll give you an example of a multi-board or an add-on board that actually was, you know, again, they didn't go crazy with it. If you do an FM100 from Ramsey Electronics, there is a synthesizer port. There is a synthesizer circuit. Now, in addition to that, there is an amp board and amp circuit for the export. This is the big difference in why Land of the Fee and Home of the Slave America, you can't have the powerful radios like everybody else in the world can have. In the land of the fee and the home of the slave, you are restricted to way below the performance of the rest of the planet. But if Ramsey sells that same kit, they've got an hat on board. Now that's an example of a parasite circuit board or an hat on board that, you know, it's a multi-circuit. It does many, many, that board does many, many little things, only one little plug and play. Well, with a lot of the radios, especially back in the equipment you'll see in the 1972 post-Vietnam, to just the end of Vietnam, maybe into the middle of the depression of the 70s. There's a lot of equipment where they started to incorporate stuff that they could find overseas. The basic radio was robust. The multi-components that were added were just cheap as the day is long and were, again, back in the Navy, oh, those are made in Taiwan. Nowadays we say, oh, those are made in Communist China. But back in the day it was either Japanese, and it wasn't the higher end Japanese. was the Taiwanese or from Hong Kong or from Taiwan and sometimes from Thailand. But the quality of the product just wasn't there. And unfortunately because they centered so much around that gimmick, in many cases it put a bad taste in radio operators' minds and mouths and they would verbalize that to the point where the company just could not recover from the damage it had done to itself. And this happened over and over and over again, especially in the soft market. You're going to see the same thing happen here progressively as we get into this next wave with communist China junk. You can already see where they're pulling the pennies too thin, make too thin a wire. The two rabbis at the Chinese hire, they grab the penny, they fight over it, they pull it out so far. They're going to let the micrometer, they're going to drop the spec for the micrometer down farther. The wire, there will be a bunch of different problems. The rabbis will be happy, they get their shekels. But the wire, the product, everything else, you know, I'm joking about the wire. It could be any number of things. But because the bean gunners are going to win out, companies are going to fail and have more problems to try to regain that market. Even in a situation where, you know, in many play cases, people simply walk away from the product altogether. And that will be a fact. It's what happened with several of the radio companies back in the day in that 1970s window. In the half an dose of 83, 84, same thing again. A bunch of cool ideas, some of them are also dead ends. Some radio companies go completely commit to a new idea and it's ahead of its time. It doesn't mean everybody doesn't do it. Let me give you an example of microprocessors. Several companies incorporated very, very early microprocessors in their simplest form. Background 1975-76. Now the rigs themselves were pretty decent, but because of the cost in the component and its improper engineering connections, overheating became the problem. Notice I keep going back to overheating. Now today we actually see this a lot. I mean, if you open a computer, look at the heat sinks, and look at the fans. My God, by the time we're done, it's like, okay, if it's this much of a problem, why are we building this? Well, the thing is you can build it if you come up with, again, a mechanical or a physical solution to pull those calories off and bring the equipment back down and maintain it at what is its standard operating temperatures. It's, you know, a temperature range that's acceptable for survivability. I mentioned before, there were a lot of machines, the green machines that were made back in the late 60s, mostly in the 70s, phenomenal machines. I had built whole radio grids here in Michigan based on those radios, guys. There aren't any laying around, and whenever you see them, they're easy to pick out. The rig itself actually is in that kind of lime green, safety green. Back in the day, it was just a unique color. And it meant that you could see that rig and go, oh, I know who built those. The problem is they were hot. And today, I mean, even only a short time after the radios came out, small computer fans, although they were bigger back in the day, there was something that as soon as people could start to afford them, or for those people that were in the know, they started grabbing them and applying. performance range. Well the same is true with a lot of the other stuff you're looking at. Remember that this is where we can take China and actually get the system, you know, cost efficient components of the system. And again, the old way you see them, get the job done, this is where we can integrate modern with even the older rigs, the older gear. Example is we have the older box radios. We can make a very quiet, yes, in the radio room guys, it's background noise and also RF interference equipment that you're running. Shielding is not hard. Dealing with that is not a problem. Most of the fans are actually integrated typically with computers. Also an issue with computers with regard to noise and crud. You know, you're creating all kinds of interference and issues. Well, those problems have pretty well been dealt with. So the neat thing is you can put a little pack of six of these little computer fans. China Sport, China on the side of one of these radio rigs and keep the calories down. Now, I mentioned something, a thermometer. Well, in this day and age, I can actually go with a cheapie electronic, and I can have more than one sensor, and I can even have more than one reading. Now, this is a good idea, because let me give you a little trick here that we learned a long time ago. Number one, if you have multi-sensor thermometers, one of the probes should be attached to the frame of the radio. Why? Well, it's metal. I mean, it really is. I mean, sometimes it might be Bakelite with metal. But remember that it's sitting there and whatever heat's generated, it builds up on the chassis. That happens. uh... but it also gives you an idea of because you can get to get really intricate now with china sport you get the thermometers and up to twenty centers twenty-oh twenty probes that could be bothered and you can read the board that you're operating you could read even though it was a little nineteen fifty or sixty radio yeah but i take this cheapie china sport this is where cheapie china sport comes in i can buy this seven or eight dollar you know thermometer with several approaches this this Actually, thermometer, because it's not really going to be regulating anything. I'm not going to use it. It's not going to tweak. A thermostat actually regulates and maintains control over temperature. What I'm going to do is just identify what's going on, which is really handy to have, because I can also even read a board, or in this case, a frame. And I can see if I've got calorie buildup in a certain tube or a component. Now, that really helps a lot, because I'm going to shut the rig down and find out what's going on. If I know what my operating temperature and my norms are, and I can keep that calorie flow consistent with that fan. Well, now if I've got these little probes laying around, even though I go with a simple one, that's only a three probe, and I'll go with that first, I'm going to put one on the frame, I'm going to put one in the middle of the fixture where I have, where I'm supposed to have the airflow, and yes, I'm also going to put one on either the back or on the roof of the box, the upper part of the chassis. Forgive me. And the reason is, is that, well Mark, that's ridiculous, because I know that heat rises. Yes, we know heat rises. And when we get enough of a thermal cloud, if we have something starting to escalate, then these three sensors are going to give us a good idea of, you know, again, progression. We have at least the ability to, you know, throw a flag up, hit the switch, knock the machine down, shut everything off, and let's lift the hood and take a look at what's going on. Especially if I have multiple probes, you know, different sites. I can go one step farther and go, okay, well, it looks like probe number three and probe number four off center right now. Okay, we'll have to go ahead and go to tube one A and go to the annuity tester and then put them on the meter, looking value-wise. Now, before we even do that, we want to look around. There could be any number of things going on in there. How the hell did the mouse get in there? Hey, we put a cuter mouse. Look at this. And there's that mouse wrapped around the, the, the, perfectly on the side where he was hugging the tube as it Maybe he's just there going, eh, for a while, but you weren't paying attention. The insulation that's in there now that's got the gray fur, eh, it's not conducive to good electronic maintenance. So we're going to get the probe in there, we're going to get the forceps, and we're going to pull, you know, Mr. Mouse out and everything off. And Mr. Mouse might have left you some gifts, too, so you might want to check the rest of your equipment. You probably peed on a few things. That's not a dropping. You really don't need those in things. So it would be a good idea to do a general, you know, not, you know, keep the system down, discharge your capacitors, go equipment, take the vacuum, and you might also want to break out those Q-tip alcohol. And if you see something that looks like it's a little special color of yellow and it's not lacquer, because you know it's not lacquer, because it's not where any lacquer was before, well, it's also PF only because when you start that unit back up and she warms up, basic maintenance issues. Again, little ideas. The thermal, the monitoring of calorie buildup, you know, using a thermometer is a simple, cheap solution. that he eliminates a lot of problems. A lot of people, needless to say, are also watching their meters. I don't know why she's spiking like that. Oh my goodness, look, the top of the machine's, you know, eating a little bit. No, we don't put a frying pan up there and cook food, though a lot of the old guys used to. Warm garlic bread, spaghetti, some sauce, filling bread off the top like a head. Anyway, fact of the matter is, heat, again, is not necessarily your friend, but the logic was, you weren't going to be running the equipment that much, that typically you would send and then you shut down your transmit side and you'd be listening and you'd be monitoring. That's a fact, guys. Remember, there are also different ways that we operate. We're a little lazy on the key. We're a little lazy on running the equipment hot because, hey, we got more work done. All the equipment was supposed to run longer, we think. We've resurrected an older piece of equipment. We'll find out the history of the operating customs. Equipment is to be running or key on that. And in fact, some of them you'll start to hear, you know, if you were listening or monitoring from another unit. you'll notice that you start to get frizzle or disruption in the transmission. Well, it could, but most likely what's happening is you're heating up components and they're going to, when you hear that little bit of a wind, when you get a warble or you start to get static or fuzz, what's happening is those component components, like we said before, they have safety switching on board. They may have a subroutine in a circuit that is going to break the circuit occasionally going on in terms of, you know, hey, wow, it's like you said, The process is translated out to another thing in parts or spare parts or even having a complete radio on standby. If I'm in a radio rig and I'm out in the middle of nowhere and I like we've talked about this before, having backups that are exactly mimicked to a chair of headphones, your mic is backups that aren't perfect and aren't your favorite mic. It doesn't sound like stereo. It doesn't sound like you've been sweating for about two hours and you got nose plugs on. listening. Nope, I only got one earbud. I've got a couple of mono buds that are picked up from a surplus store that sells military junk. It's got a single crossover harp. It's got a boom mic, but it's only got one earpiece on the left side with the mic. Okay? Well, that's so I can... There's an advantage to that. I've mentioned these before. Aviators like these. Some pilots like these, where you can... Especially for small planes. I only need to hear over on this side. I'm with the tractor-roller because he doesn't talk to me very often. On the other here, I've got another crewman in there. I've got a small cabin with a number of people sitting right behind me. And I want to be able to hear what's going on inside the plane unhindered, include the airplane itself to hear the motor, hear what's going on with the activity of the aircraft. So that's, again, those types of smaller replacement systems save space. But even having a complete rig, let's say that I build up We've talked about Kenwood. Some people like Kenwoods. Other people don't like them. Hey, some people like Chrysler. Some people don't like Chrysler, okay? Because there are competitors out there. It's like Glock. You know, I want a little comment on that, just to say. All these guys that are, you know, I've been talking about the Diamondback. I've been watching all this stuff, and I think what they're really afraid of, that little Diamondback 380 Auto and the 9mm they make, it looks so much like a Glock. It's like I can have it for half price. So yeah, it's a cheap knockoff. And no, it's not as fancy as Glock, I guess. I'm not sure about that. Because most everybody that shoots these things, they go pop pop and they seem to work. Okay, well the same is true of the radio equipment, guys. Spare parts, having a complete spare system, it's not because I don't have confidence in my rig, it's because when I'm out in the middle of BFE and I'm in a military application, if I have the ability to transport a second unit, and I'm resource heavy, which we all should be anyway because we've been thinking about this and collecting and doing the right thing. Then I have the spares that I need, okay? That way I stack them. When I hook up a trailer, hook up a camper on the back or a camper cap on the back of a three-quarter ton pickup truck and I make a video shed in the back of that truck, having a spare right below or off the side of the other one for either combat casualty issues, hey, stuff gets shot, or because something goes bad, something gets bounced. It doesn't sit right, it burns, it does something wrong. Well, rather than being completely interrupted, I have the ability to switch out any component or piece, maybe with either the same piece or a lesser system, but I can continue to function. In a battlefield situation, that is especially critical. And we are not talking on a radio or using the radios like you would a cell phone. somebody nonstop. Remember that the equipment is very surgical. Radio signal communications, RTO operations are very critical. They're very surgical. You typically will not be breaking radio silence unless there is a dynamic, a significant dynamic change in the battlefield. Otherwise, standard operating procedure will deal with 90% of what you're doing in terms of tactical combat operations. If you have to use intermediate long-range signal communications, it is because a significant action has taken place that requires updating in a timely fashion or passing on critical intelligence information. It is not for frivolous, hi Fred, how you doing? I didn't find sketching my butt here, found a butt bugger up to the sides. Yeah, otherwise nothing happening here. Hi, how are you doing? No, you see that's what I see with most of the texting going, oh my god, I got a text, why? I guess it's something to do. I assume it's because they can't keep their own mind busy. Okay? Discipline is especially the key here with regard to radio operations, but when it comes to spares, if at all possible, match up the exact same system. If you're putting computers into your radio shed, I've been collecting Dells recently. I've been getting 4s and 5s. They're all the exact same radio, same computer. Now, about a couple months ago, I gave three of those all exact same computer. They had hard drives that matched on board. All the RAM was the same. The frames were all the same. Those went to a radio operator. Why? One works right away. The other two are on standby. Maybe he has a task for the other two. But basically the idea is don't run, don't put any hours on your spares, run the primary. When there's a problem, you can disconnect rather than having to try and run it hard and hurt it. You disconnect it if there's an issue, reconnect the replacement which is an exact copy, now you can take function. Talking about exact copies. Well, you know what? When you do food and breadishes, corn, you make approximate copies. We've got... Coming up next, does a guy will tell you how to do that? Because we are at the top of the hour. Joel from the Carolinas coming up next live. Don't you dust that dial. God bless the republic. Yes, we will go to Michelle for video with gentlemen. Empire, mother, mother, one and a march. DQ, DQ, 888359, Erico, Echo, Foxtrot. We are signing off. See you in a bit, guys. Bye-bye. 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