Amateur Radio - by N2NHU Jim P. Ames
License & Other Info
License Class: Technician
Special License Code: Individual
County: Nassau
Latitude: 40.864775
Longitude: -73.625866
Telelphone Area Code: 516
Time Zone: Eastern
Effective Date: 2003-07-18
Expiration Date: 2011-07-23
Lookups: 224
eHam Member Profile
My home page is...
http://jimpames.blogspot.com
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Year born:
1965
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I am originally from...
Oklahoma
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Previous calls:
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My marital status is...
xyl
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XYL/Kids/Grandkids:
no harmonics
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I got interested in ham radio because...
Satellite - SSB - FM - AM - Packet - RTTY - ATV - Could another hobby possibly offer as much?
my other hobbies are at the very bottom of this page
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My favorite thing to do in ham radio is... Because?
Call CQ on 6 meters - you never know what you will get.
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My equipment consists of...
shack equipment
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Yaesu HF/6M/VHF/UHF all-mode 100W FT-847 computer-controlled (rs-232) on-screen database tuning
mirage 2M 160 W linear amp
RS-PRO 2050 Trunktracker scanner
RS-Pro 2030 scanner
Astron RM-60M 50A PS - base power
Astron 20A PS
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TELEVISION STATION
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P. C. Electronics TC70-10 Watt amateur television transceiver 434 MHz
JVC 3/4 inch UMATIC cr-8250u professional video tape recorder/player
buv-110 u-matic "s" broadcast portable recorder/player
Color (3-tube) NTSC professional television cameras with TV lenses courtesy RCA, JVC and Sony
JVC Character generator
SIMA VideoEditMaster+
RCA Video Date-Time Generator
Lighting by Smith-Victor
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ANTENNA SYSTEM
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HF antenna G5RV jr @ 20 ft.
2M horiz antenna cushcraft 2M 4-elem. 10 db gain
6M horiz Cushcraft 6M 5-element 10db gain
2M vert Cushcraft 2M 11 elem. 10 db gain
70 cm horiz K1FO 22 element 15.9 db gain amateur television
Sigma discone
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MOBILE RIG
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MY ADI HT connected to an on-glass antenna
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PORTABLE RIG
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ADI 2M 5w
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I am a member of the following ham radio clubs...
none
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I am most proud of the following accomplishments in ham radio...
I built my own NTSC UHF TV station based on personal research
Six months of my spare time research resulted in an affordable 10 watt UHF television station - Definitive 3/4 inch u-matic videotape recorder (circa 1976-80) broadcast reference
http://www.tvhandbook.com/History/History_timeline.htm
http://www.studio-systems.com/broadfeatures/MayJune1997/VTR/57.htm
http://www.hut.fi/~iisakkil/videoformats.html
http://www.labguysworld.com
http://informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/ellison/Syllabi/519Complete/formats/video/videocass.html
http://www.ina.fr/archives/supports/index.en.html
http://www.hypernova.co.uk/total_rewind/betamax/B_main.htm
http://www.hypernova.co.uk/total_rewind/revolution/R_main.htm
http://ether.asu.edu/video/videofaq.html
http://www.grapevinecommunications.co.uk/buyersguide/Appendices/Technical/technical.htm
http://www.tpub.com/journalist/186.htm
http://web.1earth.net/~funkydud/page9.html
http://www.r-vcr.com/~television/TV/umatic.htm
http://www.r-vcr.com/~television/TV/betamax.htm
http://www.tech-notes.tv/Glossary/Glos%20files/u.htm
http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/rmeg/mediatech/care/careAV.html
http://www.screensound.gov.au/glossary.nsf/Pages/Video+Tape?OpenDocument
http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/help/timecode/
http://umatic.palsite.com
http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/tv/
http://www.screensound.gov.au/glossary.nsf/Pages/U-matic?OpenDocument
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~jungle/software/VideoRecorder.html
http://www.fact.co.uk/www.mites.org.uk/mites4a.htm
http://www.8thman.com/tech1u.htm
http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/crs/bib2668.htm
http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-15/h3.html
http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/Big-picture/f-fb-betacamRIP.shtml
http://www.novaonline.co.uk/guide/vidtapeformats1.html
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:Z6edDO5X02IC:216.122.242.172/newsletters/2002/2002-03/lacken.ppt+u-matic&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://www.videocopycentre.com/history.htm
http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/sony.html
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/V/htmlV/videocassette/videocassette.htm
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/students/handbook/glossary15.jhtml
http://www.users.bigpond.com/kaywand/wand/tech_docs/formats.htm
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/WorldTV/oldpro.html
products for transitioning analog to digital
http://www.dv-studio.com/new_Apollo_Archiver_Pro.htm
facts about umatic
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mug/ctjul96/gsas.html
http://www.mastersonaudio.com/video/20021015.htm
automated broadcasting
http://www.digitaljukebox.com/
reference material for broadcast
http://www.studio-systems.com/gloss/MarApr2001/52.htm
production basics
http://www.amazing.com/dv/production-faq.html
video formats
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/index.html
http://www.tvcameramen.com/equipment/video_formats.htm
broadcast engineering sites
http://www.lionlmb.org/bc_eng.html
broadcast references
http://www.lionlmb.org/quadpark.html
how video recording equates to vision
http://www.m2com.com/playbk6.html
choosing a vtr
http://www.unitedvisual.com/2tips/2tvcr101.asp
camera pinouts
http://www.brogers.addr.com/Web/10pinvideofaq.htm
video formats
http://www.don-barrett.com/formats.html
http://www.herts.ac.uk/ltdu/technology/what_are_the_various_video_formats.html
http://www.urbanfox.tv/articles/tape/t2manufacturers.htm
worldwide tv stds
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=u-matic+faq&hl=en&lr=lang_en&cr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=9109091335.aa06206%40Ainur.EE.Surrey.Ac.UK&rnum=10
bvu history
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=bvu-110+sony+bvu-150&start=10&hl=en&lr=lang_en&cr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&selm=p267vCAokOOzEwj7%40redsquir.demon.co.uk&rnum=19
broadcast exchange
http://www.broadcastexchange.com/
suppliers
http://www.markertek.com/
sony history
http://www.sony.ca/sonyca/about_chronology.shtml
transition to digital
http://www.nvision1.com/Serv/RefLib/thebook.pdf
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The funniest thing that ever happened to me on the air was...
Calling for an OM at his home QTH up north on 2m ssb and getting my old friend KB2FUM mobile! What a hoot!
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The biggest pileup I ever heard or busted was...
6 meters - Victoria Island. 50W into a Cushcraft 5 element beam horizontal.
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I would like to try the following new things in ham radio in the next 10 years...
Satellite - HF
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When I'm not on the radio, you can normally find me...
thinking about radio
posted by N2NHU Jim at 11:02 AM
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