Re: FedEx invoice for import to UK
Hans (G0UPL),
Strength, Pull it together! As you said, "I'm supposed to be on re-entering rolling ball phase AVOIDANCE." Ok you have had Tuesday off. I guess you deserve a vacation, you have had it.
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N5SE
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#109876
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Re: FedEx invoice for import to UK
The smaller Black Plastic kit was indeed ours also.
We sold a License on our patent to allow a company called Arrow Handicraft to make them.
Many people could not afford the all furniture grade hard
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Joe WB9SBD
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#109875
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How many radio hams does it take to change a BS170 ?
321.
One to hold the soldering iron.
One hundred group posters to discuss the merits what solder to use.
Two hundred to debate what the wattage of the soldering iron should be.
And twenty more to
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- Andy -
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Re: FedEx invoice for import to UK
Hi Guido
Thanks, great stuff, yep that's the rolling ball sculpture at 2:00 minutes
in to the video; though you only see a small portion of it not the whole
thing. OOOOhhh you shouldn't be showing
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Hans Summers
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Re: #qmx Antenna Tuner Can Kill PAs
#qmx
1) As an instrument rated private pilot I have never worn a parachute, plus in my plane (C172) it would not fit.
2) The very simple steady state 150C/W to ambient is next to useless for transient
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Chris KB1NLW
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Re: FedEx invoice for import to UK
Hoi Hans,
Same fascination about Evoluon here, look someone has frozen time here https://youtu.be/eq37wP2eyFk?si=V6PV5u8MI_5uRMbY
The clock that Bill mentioned was sold here in the 70s here in
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Guido PE1NNZ
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Re: #qmx Antenna Tuner Can Kill PAs
#qmx
Hans,
I like your thinking.
Back in the last century (?), if I have the decade correct, someone did a cost/risk evaluation to see at what point an expensive, fleet-wide modification became practical
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Ted <k3rta@...>
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Re: FedEx invoice for import to UK
For the last 17 years I was not charged VAT on web hosting services I was buying from a US company. I got an email yesterday saying they are meant to charge me VAT so that's a 20% increase for
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Andy
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Re: FedEx invoice for import to UK
Hi Billy
Woooaahhh I'm resisting my rolling ball phase re-entry. If I ever attempted
my rolling ball CPU it would fill an entire room and take hours to perform
one floating point operation. And
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Hans Summers
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Q: Destructive experiment on a dead BS170
Hi all
One of the limiting factors in heat dissipation on the BS170 is the plastic
package. The plastic case in its existing geometry is to provide for easy
handling with existing tools. Since
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Jim Strohm
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Re: FedEx invoice for import to UK
Hans (G0UPL),
{ "almost makes me wanna start soldering those wire sculptures again"} You talk about re-entering your "rolling ball sculpture" phase. That is extremely important to you as a small
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N5SE
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Re: #qmx Antenna Tuner Can Kill PAs
#qmx
Hello Zach
Commercial airliners don't have parachutes. Because I think the analogy is
an interesting one but has issues. There has to be a reasonable possibility
or probability that a passenger can
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Hans Summers
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Re: #qmx Antenna Tuner Can Kill PAs
#qmx
1) We cannot do a transient thermal model because there appears to be no useful published thermal data on the BS170. - This use of the BS170 is not what it was intended for.
A: NOT true see attached
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ajparent1/kb1gmx
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Re: FedEx invoice for import to UK
Hi Joe
Wow, that IS unreasonably cool and awesome! Congratulations. I read the
"History" page too. Very nice.
I had a "rolling ball sculpture" phase around my mid-teens, which got
started in a
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Hans Summers
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Re: FedEx invoice for import to UK
Hans (G0UPL)
Sure interesting watching you improve the QMX firmware to new heights. Bet you can't even organize the code in your mind. Also bet some of this multitude of whiners {wasting your time on
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N5SE
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Re: FedEx invoice for import to UK
In the US, the federal government does not collect sales tax, the individual states do. The package isn't taxed on entry to the country and whatever state it's shipped to doesn't know about it.
Bill
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Bill Collins
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Re: FedEx invoice for import to UK
Hi Joe
Yes exactly! From 1st Jan 2021. And I believe EU implemented it 6 months
after UK. It was wrong and irrelevant to mix it up with Brexit and whether
that was a good idea or not, since this rule
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Hans Summers
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Re: FedEx invoice for import to UK
Uh-oh. That’s pretty cool. Now Hans will have to figure out how to get one without the tax complications!
Do you make a wrist model? ?
Brock VA7AV
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Brock VA7AV
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#109859
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Re: FedEx invoice for import to UK
I’ve never been charged any duty on items from Hans imported into the UK.
John
G4YTJ
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John Pagett G4YTJ
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Re: FedEx invoice for import to UK
Hello Chris
Glad to hear someone else got stung!!! Only joking.
I got caught for ?5.72, so FedEx system is flexible.
I do know now that it is hit and miss another G I was in contact in hasn't had
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Ian G4GIR
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