I wrote a code on my old RadioShack CoCoII to convert text (ASCII) to Morse back in the mid 80's. Ya it was cheating but I sounded like a real Pro.
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I was Afton asked to slow down. "hard to keep up"
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I got pretty good at understanding Morse this way. I got to the point of hearing words and not just letters.
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I tried and tried to write a code to convert Morse to text. I couldn't make it work. I look back at the problem now and I see it was the lack of an input buffer in my code with the CoCoII.
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I still have my Heathkit SB-610 all tube scope that I built when I was a kid.
I still have mine (!) from my novice days as a teenager, bought at a hamfest for $35. Sensitive, but not too selective. I'm guessing this will go for $500-600.
OMG! It's up to $360 already. I paid $79 for mine when I was a kid. Of course, it took me a whole year to earn that much from my TV Guide route!
I don't have it anymore, though. I sold all my ham stuff for $100 to my high school math teacher's son when I got out of college. That included a teletype machine and a couple 4CX1000A tubes. (He got a bargain.)
PhiPi: I still have it ALL my ham gear. Including my vintage (even way back then) Western Union telefax machine, with the mechanical spiral drum scan, and the transistor inverter I built following instrux from the ARRL handbook. Used that in my hich school science fair project. First place, natch.
You must have a large barn to hold all that cool stuff you've kept! I have a feeling that those guys on the TV show, Pickers, would have heart palpitations if they ever came across your place!
Actually I don't know for certain if it is a Ping, ...
Oh, seriously? I thought you were being rhetorical. I can't tell from the photo either. If it is, though, they've added some spacers to it, but that's easy enough to do. A quick Google search didn't turn up any more info.
I had a few Heathkits in my days. Last one was a scope. Very expensive, but I just had to have it. Never could afford the Hero Robot I wanted the most though. Somehow $2,500.00 was just out of my reach at 14 years old for something that my parents considered an expensive toy. The device in the photo does look like a PING))) and I find it interesting that most of the photo is so clear except the details that would stand out on the PING))). Nonetheless, I thought that the project looked VERY familiar...
That's not the only PING))) knock-off. Do an image search on Google for ultrasonic rangefinder. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Parallax would be blushing from the implied accolades!
First RadioShack, now HeathKit. Wow! This could be good news, or Heath may just be another overpriced Pitsco Lego Dacta, designed to relieve school districts of their hard-won funding. We'll see, as their pricing structure becomes more apparent. (I was rather hoping to see some ham radio kits, but I guess that was too much to ask for.)
-Phil
.. or Tube amplifier kits =/ (which i have some schematics for ;D )
Christmas bidding fever on Ebay got a Penguin kit up to $180 the other day. So maybe this guy will get $800+ for his HW-8. If so, that bodes well for my $777 unbuilt HW-9, which is much more desireable. BTW, I have not had a chance to start building it, but I did get the matching unbuilt WARC pack for it. Woo Hoo!
If I ever get snowed in here in southern California , there will be no shortage of projects.
Ouch, that's sad! I got my start in electronics building a Heath HR-10 ham radio receiver as a teen. Their ham kits were, by and large, very well regarded and still command a premium in the used market -- as erco will attest to. (How's the HW-9 assembly coming, erco? I scan the band every day, hoping upon hope to hear your CQ. )
Another unbuilt HW-9 on Ebay, this one unleashed in the fury of the holiday buying spree. If it cracks $800, I won't feel bad. And no, it's not mine and mine ain't fer sale, PhiPi!
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I was Afton asked to slow down. "hard to keep up"
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I got pretty good at understanding Morse this way. I got to the point of hearing words and not just letters.
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I tried and tried to write a code to convert Morse to text. I couldn't make it work. I look back at the problem now and I see it was the lack of an input buffer in my code with the CoCoII.
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I still have my Heathkit SB-610 all tube scope that I built when I was a kid.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Heathkit-Unbuilt-HR-10B-Receiver-Box-/230668942856?_trksid=p4340.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSI%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BRTU%252BUA%252BFICS%26otn%3D5%26pmod%3D330607730528%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D2596257357002558997
I still have mine (!) from my novice days as a teenager, bought at a hamfest for $35. Sensitive, but not too selective. I'm guessing this will go for $500-600.
I don't have it anymore, though. I sold all my ham stuff for $100 to my high school math teacher's son when I got out of college. That included a teletype machine and a couple 4CX1000A tubes. (He got a bargain.)
-Phil
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/e/deskfax/index.html
If a photo of it is worth $25, imagine what the unit is worth! Surely I'm a millionaire!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1953-Western-Unions-Desk-Fax-Wire-Photo-/290587468122?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item43a85ce15a
You must have a large barn to hold all that cool stuff you've kept! I have a feeling that those guys on the TV show, Pickers, would have heart palpitations if they ever came across your place!
-Phil
http://www.heraldpalladium.com/articles/2011/08/25/local_news/6216823.txt
Is that a Parallax Ping in the photo?
Ken Gracey
-Phil
Actually I don't know for certain if it is a Ping, which is why I ask the question. I can't tell by looking at the photo.
Ken Gracey
Oh, seriously? I thought you were being rhetorical. I can't tell from the photo either. If it is, though, they've added some spacers to it, but that's easy enough to do. A quick Google search didn't turn up any more info.
-Phil
-Phil
Garage Parking Assistant
I guess in that sense if their kits will now be just stuff other people post on the web, will it be worth it?
-Phil
-Phil
.. or Tube amplifier kits =/ (which i have some schematics for ;D )
Christmas bidding fever on Ebay got a Penguin kit up to $180 the other day. So maybe this guy will get $800+ for his HW-8. If so, that bodes well for my $777 unbuilt HW-9, which is much more desireable. BTW, I have not had a chance to start building it, but I did get the matching unbuilt WARC pack for it. Woo Hoo!
If I ever get snowed in here in southern California
Did you ever assemble that Heath transceiver kit that you bought awhile back?
-Phil
So will the Corvair.
No rush.
I have one of these already built, neat regenerative radio. These get a fair price on Ebay. If someone gets this for $40, it's a deal!
http://www.heraldpalladium.com/news/local/disassembly-complete-heathkit-is-no-more/article_c00ffaac-d15b-11e1-a9e7-0019bb2963f4.html
-Phil
Heathkit's a silent key for the second time now.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/230894456674?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1431.l2649