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I found the EF Johnson mailing list
you can sign up for it here:
It also has very few messages, going a month or two between messages, but it's a resource. Donald AD8DY ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: /g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas /g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng /g/CHIRP |
Re: new member
Brian,
Sorry about the slow message approval. I am the only moderator right now (you're welcome to help if you contact me off-list) and had a busy day AFTER work yesterday, including about an hour and a half of driving, so I came home and went to bed shortly after getting home. Welcome to the group. I hope it grows. I've seen a few join the group then leave almost immediately because there's not much here yet. It will stay that way if everyone does that. If it doesn't gradually grow, I can re=purpose the group for something else by renaming it after making an announcement. It would probably be for some other ham radio group. But I wont' hastily do that. My Icom group took about a year or more to gain traction and now it's useful and growing. I can't find the email address but there is an email reflector group for EF Johnson radios. I picked up a Ranger for $40 at Hamvention two years ago. I haven't done anything with it except to slowly power it up using a variac to bring the voltage up gradually. It didn't explode and there was no smoke, so it passed the first test, but I believe I'll be re-capping it and going through it to see where any trouble lies. If I don't get to it before then, I'll work on it after I retire in 2-3 years. Donald AD8DY On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:20:57 -0700, "Brian Pepperdine" <busybrian@...> wrote: Well, as noted there are basically no messages...yet. ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: /g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas /g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng /g/CHIRP |
new member
Well, as noted there are basically no messages...yet.
Hopefully there will be some people who wander in. I am here in large part due to my interest in watching Terry's videos at D Labs Electronics (YouTube and his YT page video archive). Interesting stuff Terry has done on the Rangers and Valiants and Viking II rigs, amongst other stuff. Anyhow, hope to see some exchanges on this Group. Brian VE3HI |
New ham groups added, new groups.io pricing structure on Jan 18, 2021 (long post, intentionally cross-posted)
First, the new pricing structure for NEWLY formed groups on groups.io
beginning January 18, 2021. Basic (free) groups formed on or after that date stay free *up to 100 members*. After that, it will need to be upgraded to a premium group. Premium groups ($220/year) are good up to 400 members, after which a per-member fee ($.05 per month or $0.55 per year) is added to the $220 per year premium group fee. That will bring a burden on some new groups, so I created some more ham groups that may grow, or flounder, but I wanted to beat the deadline so those groups will not be charged extra fees, or any fees, for that matter. If they take off and are useful, that will be great. If they flounder, I might just delete the group if members agree, or if there are no co-owners by the time I review whether the group is worth keeping. If you were thinking of creating a group for one of your interests, THIS IS THE TIME TO DO SO before the new pricing structure goes into effect. If you need help with that, email me *privately* and if I'm not overwhelmed with requests, I will try to help. You must be willing to assume group ownership as I will leave the group after creating it and you've been made a group owner. If you need help getting started with the group, I can hang around for a short while and direct you to documentation on how to run a group. As for the new groups I created last evening, I will list their web addresses below. Please contact me *privately* ONLY IF you are interested in joining one of these groups AND ARE UNABLE to use the join button on the web site or find the join process confusing. I would like to avoid what happened when Yahoo closed their groups and I offered to help people if they were unable to join themselves. I was overwhelmed with requests to help, and I'm sure not all of those were from people who had difficulty joining, so please give it a try yourself first. Go to the site and press the join button on the group(s) you are interested in. Follow the simple instructions and you will be approved. All new members will be moderated for a short time so don't expect to post immediately. There's only one moderator right now (me), and I work for a living, sleep at night, and take naps because of my health condition in late afternoons sometimes. I donate some of my time for community work, am a minister, and have to wisely use my time. But I don't want anyone to not join one of these groups because they find it difficult to join. YOU CAN JOIN ANY OF THESE GROUPS BY EMAIL by sending a message to the subscribe address. Take the web address name at the end of the URL and change it by adding [email protected] to it. For the FT-757 group (as an example): /g/FT-757GX Send an email to this address: [email protected] no body text is required in the message, just the address, but to make your email program happy, you can put the word subscribe in the subject and message fields. These new lists are email reflectors only with no storage (a change that was made almost a year ago by GIO's owner). If I had created them before February 2020, they would have storage. We will work something out for storage if the groups get large enough and have a need for that. I will need moderators for these new groups, and soon after they get on their feet, a co-owner who has some real interest and hopefully experience with these different brands of radios. Contact me off-list if you are interested in volunteering with any of these groups. I will help you out with anything you need to know about how to manage a group as a moderator or co-owner. I will list the NEW groups first, then list the other amateur radio groups I created. Note that most of these are not model-specific and are "general-purpose" groups for a BRAND of radio or a general-purpose group for a type of equipment. I did not create any group for which there already was a general-purpose discussion group for that brand of radio, like Drake and some others. I am not interested in amassing a lot of groups to manage. My purpose is just to see that interests in major amateur radio brands are covered by some group for our amateur radio community. Let me know *privately* if I missed a MAJOR brand of vintage or current brand of amateur radio and I will decide if I want to create a group for that, but I'm not interested in managing lots and lots of ham groups. My purpose is to get these groups created so they will be grandfathered under the old pricing structure and won't cost the group owner (me) money based on how many members there are. Antennas will be covered by our ham-antennas group, so I didn't think creating a new group for the major makers of antennas would be useful and might just splinter the community across more groups. The antenna tuners group is not approved yet but should be by later today so you should be able to join in a few hours if you're interested. The NEW groups are: Alinco /g/Alinco-Amateur-Radio Antenna Tuners /g/Antenna-Tuners Anytone /g/Anytone-Amateur-Radio Collins /g/Collins-Amateur-Radio EF Johnson /g/EFJohnson-Amateur-Radio Kenwood /g/Kenwood-Amateur-Radio MFJ ham equipment /g/MFJ-Amateur-Radio National /g/National-Amateur-Radio Swan /g/Swan-Amateur-Radio Existing groups created previously: Baofeng /g/Baofeng CHIRP radio programming tool /g/CHIRP Yaesu FT-757 /g/FT-757GX Yaesu FT-767GX /g/FT-767GX (only 1 member, me) Ham radio antennas Ham Radio Help group Icom /g/ICOM Icom 746 /g/Icom-746 Icom 746 Pro /g/Icom-746Pro RF Amplifiers Donald -- AD8DY Formerly KJ3I ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: /g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas /g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng /g/CHIRP |
New ham groups, also new pricing structure for groups
The next message is about some new groups I created to have a
general-purpose discussion group for some brands of amateur radio equipment and radios before groups.io's new pricing structure goes into effect Jan 81, 2021. It is a long message, so I just wanted to give you a heads-up. I cross-posted it to all the groups I manage. I will be looking for moderators for the new groups and even some of the established groups, so if you're interested in helping, please email me privately about this. For the rest, please read my next post. It's a long and detailed one. Donald -- AD8DY Formerly KJ3I ---------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: /g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas /g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng /g/CHIRP |
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