32 Year old Kenwood TS820 - Page 1
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author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 14, 2013, 07:46:03 pm
content: Here is a picture of my 32 Year old Kenwood TS 820, quality still produce 120 watts, I bought some spare tubes , but have never needed to fit them, I remember saving for this took my 2 years, and has become and old friend, I wonder if any of you have become attached to a piece of equipment, today's contacts ,are:- USA, Portugal, Germany, France, Spain, Newfoundland.

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 15, 2013, 01:53:36 am
content: Beautiful old radio!I have one nearly as old---a Yaesu FT301.Some people say they suffer from frequency drift,but I've never noticed that myself.Virtually all my gear is old,as my budget for Electronics tinkering & Ham Radio is low,but they are mainly fairly recent purchases---although the dead FT290R in the shed has been around since new!I have a fair few bits of equipment which need repair,but it's too cold in the Ham Shack in winter,& too hot in the summer,plus after many years of benchwork,I'm a bit over it,so I use what still works!

author: PeteInTexas
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 15, 2013, 04:26:33 am
content: Quote from: Telequipment on June 14, 2013, 07:46:03 pmHow many languages do you speak? Is this a barrier to the hobby?

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 15, 2013, 07:25:19 am
content: Quote from: PeteInTexas on June 15, 2013, 04:26:33 amJust the one English, plus some odd bit's you pick up over the years, no it's never been a barrier, every amateur I 've spoken to speaks English, it's never been a problem, you can sometimes, just get callsign name & signal reports, and at other times you can have an long conversation, when the amateur wants to practise his/her English,I speak regularly to a radio ham in china, who's English is now perfect, it would be impossible to learn her language, as she was telling me, there is parts of China that she doesn't even understand, English is the international language thank goodness if it wasn't I'd be in deep trouble

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 15, 2013, 07:32:25 am
content: Quote from: vk6zgo on June 15, 2013, 01:53:36 amBeautiful Radio, have you noticed some hams are terrified of tuning one of these hybrid radios up, I had radio ham around hear and he was trembling using the Drive Plate & load, all his are Auto ATU's , you know you have to be hands on with these, another thing we both noticed ,when he brought his Yaesu 1000mp, around is that on the scope ,my transmit RF power out was clean, where his wasn't. Which I thought was strange as his has all these output filters, mine doesn't, perhaps tubes produce a more clean output., sorry about your shacks temps, that cannot be fun.

author: KJDS
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 15, 2013, 08:44:54 pm
content: Quote from: Telequipment on June 15, 2013, 07:25:19 amThere are parts of England that I struggle to understand the English. I've got no chance at all with a drunken Glaswegian and I've some Irish traveler friends that it took me a while to work out what they're saying and even now if they're chatting amongst themselves I often miss a lot. I lived for a while in the Netherlands and had fewer problems chatting with the Dutch. Their English was mostly better than the English, though I would hate to see the loss of the English dialects.