Wow! Five miles from my QTH, ICE was busy this past Thursday rounding up some 200 illegal immigrants. The Centroid of this DHS action was Laguna Road in Camarillo, CA.
ICE, note the tear gas masks.
On Fridays I travel over Laguna Road on the way to visit the XYL at the cemetery in Oxnard. This past Friday, yesterday, at about 8 AM, there appeared to be some ICE agents still hiding in the bushes or at least somebody in the bushes on Laguna Road (perhaps a CA reincarnation of Mary Jo vintage 2025).
This is close to home and scary. Where are we headed... seized and detained because of how you look or that you speak Spanish. What happened to probable cause and due process.
But I do wonder who is feeding DHS, the pinpoint locations of where to use "Roundup". Shades of Russia where it is mandatory that you be a snitch.
There is a fascinating situation at the intersection of two roads quite near CSU Channel Islands, the purported reference in the Eagles song "Hotel California". Prior to becoming a university this was a state mental hospital.
Back to the intersection. On one side, one road is called Potrero Road and on the other side it's called Laguna Road. For the other road, one side is Lewis Road, and the other side is Hueneme Road. One intersection and four different road names. That ought to confuse the GPS systems.
The Project X radio is not unlike the Swan 240 or Hallicrafters SR-160 in that the IF is in the 5 MHz range and the LO for 80/20 Meters is in the 9 MHz range and for 40 Meters in the 12 MHz range. The Swan 240 actually has a two range VFO to provide the 9 and 12MHz injection frequencies. The SR-160 uses the same range for all bands except Hallicrafters included a 3.9 MHz crystal oscillator and mixer stage so that you had a 12 MHz output on 40M.
The Project X rig uses the Swan 240 approach only the 40M LO is generated at 1/3 the frequency and that is frequency tripled to provide the 12 MHz LO. Incidentally, the Project X and Swan Monobanders used the same IF filter frequency.
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The 2N2092 transistors are almost unobtanium but a 2N2672 is a good sub having identical specs with the only difference is the Ft is 30 MHz on the 2N2092 and 180 MHz on the 2N2672. The 2N2672's were used in the later SBE-33's and the SBE-34's so many are still floating around the old hulks.
Them that know can make things go.
73's
Pete N6QW