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Folders, Files and Photos Ownership

#1
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A note about Photos Ownership:
Whoever uploads photos becomes the owner of those items even though he/she may have never actually had anything to do with their creation and original posting. For the original owner to regain control over the items here is my suggestion -
Contact the existing photo folder owner or photo owner and ask for ownership to be transferred to you as the original owner.

A note about Files Ownership:
Whoever uploads folders or files becomes the owner of those items even though he/she may have never actually had anything to do with their creation and original posting. For the Original owner to regain control over the items here is my suggestion -
1 - Create a new folder with the same name but add an asterisk (*) at the end of the folder or files name. For example an existing 6146 folder would have a 6146* folder next to it (if sorting is by Name).
2 - Copy the 6146 folder files back onto your computer.
3 - Load the 6146* folder with the files. Change the comments section as required.
4 - Ask the existing folder owner, group owner or a moderator to delete the original 6146 folder.
5 - After the 6146 folder has been deleted you can delete the * at the end of the name.

73 Roger VE7LB

A new place , same classic radio.

gregW:-)

#2

Well well well .... here we have a new place to post messages and get information about our much loved Yaesu FRG-7 receiver.
While it is true that this isn't Yahoo groups (they have recently closed) what remains is the same subject matter that we had back there.
Hopefully this new group will be discovered by other users , and in time the same the same quality resource will be generated once again.

Long live the Yaesu FRG-7 !!!!

gregW:-)? OH2FFY

Re: A new place , same classic radio.

#3

Hi Greg,
Thanks for being the first member. The old Yahoo group won't allow the posting of messages so I have to locate some of the original members the hard way.
You can find all of the old Yahoo messages in a single html file in the files section. Open with your browser.

73 Roger VE7LB

Hashtags, files, and a wiki

#4

Will the list owner please activate hashtags?? ?Encouraging their use makes postings a lot easier to search.? ?I have a lot of files to upload, but won't get to them until February.??
Jim, KA6TPR

Re: Hashtags, files, and a wiki

#5

Hi Jim,
Hash tags will only be used by Admin for items like group policy. Trying to stay away from anything that smacks of social media.

73 Roger VE7LB Owner

Re: Folders, Files and Photos Ownership

#6

Completed adding all of the Yahoo Files today. Added files descriptions that had been previously saved from Yahoo.

73 Roger VE7LB

MHZ selector off by one MHZ

#7

Hello all,

i just picked up my first frg-7 and one of it s problems is the MHZ selection dial is one MHZ higher than the received frequency. in other words to tune in 10.xxx i have to set the MHZ on 11 not 10. does any know what may cause this to happen?

Re: MHZ selector off by one MHZ

#8

Hi Tim,
Does the red lock light go off when you set the MHz dial to all of the dial MHz segments? Particularly the lowest and highest MHz segments?
At the lowest and highest settings does the dial seem to go past the stop points if you keep turning the MHz knob?

73
Roger VE7LB

Re: MHZ selector off by one MHZ

#9

i'll check when i get home. i just got the radio last night. it does go off on the Zero segment but i didn't try all the way up to 30 since it was late when i got home and figured there would be no activity in the high bands. it dose go off on? 0-15 mhz and hears signals VERY well. The pre-selecter and main dial seems to be accurate

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Re: MHZ selector off by one MHZ

#10

the light goes out on all segments from 0-30 the MHZ dial goes about 1/2 past 30 but does not go below 0 at all it only goes the the left edge of 0?

Re: MHZ selector off by one MHZ

#11

It's looking like it is a mechanical problem and not an electronic problem. If the MHz dial only goes to the left edge of 0 that would explain why the dial shows 1 MHz higher than the actual frequency. I don't have my FRG-7 handy to check but it's possible the MHz drum has slipped on the shaft or the angle drum drive needs alignment. Check all drive components and set screws.

73 Roger VE7LB

Re: MHZ selector off by one MHZ

#12

I found a top chassis photo and put it in the Photos section. I can see the MHz tuning capacitor has a shaft coupling with set screws. With the capacitor fully closed the dial indicator should be over the small triangle symbol to the right of 0.

Re: MHZ selector off by one MHZ

#13

Thanks for your help Roger, i will give it a try this weekend

LOCK and Preselector problems ...

#14

Hi everyone,

after a while I turned on my FRG7 and found two surprises ...

the first :
the led lock switches off regularly only from 14 MHz to go up, under 14 MHz up to 10 MHz it goes off but not in a defined way, from 7/8 MHz to go down it doesn't go out anymore, even if it is possible to hear the HAM in 40 meters without problems. I have seen in the manual that VR102 can be adjusted for correct alignment, I have to try. Any suggestions from you about this problem?

the second :
the preselector has no effect, turning the knob no longer has any "DIP" points in any range. Any suggestions from you about this problem?

thanks and best 73 Luca IK2NUQ

Re: LOCK and Preselector problems ...

#15

Hi Luca,
Whenever I find a problem with any radio, particularly if it hasn't been used in a while, I shut off the radio and exercise the rotary switches. In the case of the FRG-7 I would start off by rotating the band and mode switch 20 times end to end. This will wipe of any oxidation from the rotary contacts. If it seems to improve the problems then do it again one more time. If it works then all is well. If it comes back again try some dexoxit on the band switch contacts. Use dexoxit by applying it sparingly to the rotary contacts.

If the above doesn't work then some alignment may be required.

73
Roger VE7LB

Old Yahoo Messages

#16

Located in the Files section is a folder called 1 - Old Yahoo Messages Folder. Here are the notes with the text file in that folder -

All of the old Yahoo Messages from #1 to Nov, 2019 in a txt file of 1.1 mb. This file should open OK using Notepad. You can also use the free Notepad++ to open it faster. Notepad++ is available here - https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ . This file was edited to remove Yahoo text formatting data. Search using the Find function.

Also available is an html file of 1.7 mb that will open with any browser but so far has only been tested with Firefox. Takes a bit of time to load.

If you find any missing data please let me know as I have the original file.

Link to old FRG-7 mod page.

#17

I'll try to start putting some FRG mods and reviews into the file pages soon.
Here is a link from the past that still works, too bad they didn't complete the ambitious start they made.

Jim, KA6TPR

Usenet and rec.radio.amateur.equipment

#18

A little history;? during the wild west of the internet, (1980) the?User Network or Usenet was?created.? It was the first public forum for information exchange?and was huge.? You can wiki it.
The reason I bring this up is that it covered the timespan for the FRG-7 introduction and most of the FRG-7 modification/development.? The groups were named in the following format:
rec.radio. (something)
rec.radio.amateur
rec.radio.amatuer.antenna
rec.radio.amatuer.equipment
rec.radio.amatuer.receivers

and so forth.? Google kept about 20 years of archives, and if you dig a bit, there is more info about Frogs than you can ever use.

Jim, KA6TPR

New files uploaded to [email protected]

[email protected] Notification

#19

Hello,

This email message is a notification to let you know that the following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the [email protected] group.

Uploaded By: Starsekr <Starsekr@...>

Cheers,
The 开云体育 Team

Re: MHZ selector off by one MHZ

#20

Hi Tim, did you ever get the FRG-7 working OK?

73 Roger VE7LB Group Owner