DT300i resurrection

[CROSSBOLT]

Hi ! Remember me? Har, har!

Started readying the DT for spring to sell. One brake switch won't and the start switch won't either. Had a perfect spring day today to fiddle. Screw driver and a can of contact cleaner and all switches will !

She started after two revolutions like always! I be clam happy!

I pray all of you have successful spring rides that lack any pain or abrasions! I am busy with honey-do's and building kit radios for other hams who are real operators.

May God bless you all !

[Iahawk]

good to hear from you, Karl! You'll have your scoot in top shape in no time and glad to hear you're keeping busy. We miss your regular visits, here!

[CROSSBOLT]

Thank you, Hawk! I miss you guys more than riding!

[Ruffus]

Greetings from Italy to Tennessee, CROSSBOLT! 
Good to see you are still in business.

Karl, would you be so kind and have a look on this thread below, what are we missing in our search? Maybe you got some idea? Would love to have your opinion.

https://www.kymcoforum.com/index.php?topic=34666.0

[scooterfan]

Hi Crossbolt , I definately remember you ! In fact, I actually missed you and your posts since I am back as well !

Welcome back ! Please keep those posts rolling !

[Neil955i]

God bless you too Karl.  Glad you’re doing well and great to see you drop by here. Keep us updated with your doings, even if it is NSR!

[Stig / Major Tom]

Radios

Karl, when I was in Vietnam, late 1960's, I bought a Zenith Trans-Oceanic radio.
Big thing - took a lot of D batteries!
It had a knob on the L side, turn it to rotate to different 'bands'.... not that I knew a thing about this. It was new - but the manual didn't make it to our compound.
Pretty sure some were short wave.

Whenever I was back at my hootch at the 71st Evac Hosp I'd try to get something, anything, on it from back in The World.
I ran an 'antenna' wire along the top of the sandbag wall, outside. No idea if that helped anything.
We could get AFVN, of course (think Robin Wms), but that was out of Saigon, or someplace in-country. That was akin to being on Mars, getting music from DJ in a tent on Mars.
"Back in the World" was what we wanted. The USA.
A few times I got San Fransico - maybe Australia.


Wish I'd been able to bring that thing home - no dice. Got $50 for it.
Thanks for posting Karl!

Stig

[CROSSBOLT]

Ybor
Radios

Karl, when I was in Vietnam, late 1960's, I bought a Zenith Trans-Oceanic radio.
Big thing - took a lot of D batteries!
It had a knob on the L side, turn it to rotate to different 'bands'.... not that I knew a thing about this. It was new - but the manual didn't make it to our compound.
Pretty sure some were short wave.

Whenever I was back at my hootch at the 71st Evac Hosp I'd try to get something, anything, on it from back in The World.
I ran an 'antenna' wire along the top of the sandbag wall, outside. No idea if that helped anything.
We could get AFVN, of course (think Robin Wms), but that was out of Saigon, or someplace in-country. That was akin to being on Mars, getting music from DJ in a tent on Mars.
"Back in the World" was what we wanted. The USA.
A few times I got San Fransico - maybe Australia.


Wish I'd been able to bring that thing home - no dice. Got $50 for it.
Thanks for posting Karl!

Stig

Tom, you just shook loose a SEA STORY!
I do not think I ever told you guys this one about a duty day aboard an LST based in San Diego, CA. This was my first tour as a Mustang LT(jg) Engineering Officer [LT(jg) = 1st LT in other services]. I had duty that day as CDO (Command Duty Officer) and was prowling the ship to bolster the troops on watch and self-satisfying that she (the ship) was not sinking, on fire, being threatened by pirates..you know, you seen the movies! I came upon Radio Central and looked in on the man standing watch there. He was RD2 Robert Bokum, one of the brightest men I had encountered in my 8 to 9 years of service. RD is radarman or radar operator and he was tasked cross rate as radioman  for in port duty which is very busy copying and printing a ton of message traffic coming over shortwave radio. In the midst of this tiny radio room was a Zenith Transoceanic portable radio. E-5 Bokum explained that one of the ship's receivers was out of service and he hooked his personal radio up to the system to copy one of the important teletype message broadcasts!

This is an example of the beyond outstanding men who populated my Navy from 1959 to 1977!

Tom, you were right on track by stringing wire for your excellent receiver! The more wire the better for receive!

SEA STORY FINAL. OUT.

[Stig / Major Tom]

Karl, great story!
I never knew how much interference I might be getting for my Transoceanic from nearby "Tropo hill".
I think I recall that these big screens were for "listening to the enemy". But, really, I have no idea....


The dumb things were targets for the badguy 122mm rockets. These explosive rockets would fall wherever - since they could be aimed & fired by leaning them on a fence or the side of a shed in the village. Point being - they lit 'em and often the airbase would pick 'em up with their radar then blow the siren that they were airborne......falling wherever!

So, I had the airbase's radar hill to contend with, as well.

"Artillery Hill", nearby - didn't cause listening problems - but it sure did scare the beans out of me the first time I experienced their nightly "H & I" fire over us. (randomly fired into no-go zones, to harass and interdict VC movements)
"Relax kid, that's 'out-going'!"
'Yeah, but my cot moved!'

Stig