From the Newsletter history archives... About your fellow club members:  Last month wound up the "Club Officer Profile" series and intentions were to embark on spotlighting, briefly, all our club members beginning with this issue of the Newsletter.  However, due to extenuating circumstances (scheduling a visit to each member's QTH for hamshack photos, etc.), this did not materialize due to editor's time constraints. Therefore,  this feature  will not begin with this issue...but is tentatively rescheduled for next month, the April 2005 issue.
Vintage Equipment From  the August '86 newsletter (entitled "Lenoir Amateur Radio Club" -after it was adopted as the official newsletter of the LARC but before it was renamed as the "News and Views"), it was  noted that Duane Ayers, N4AVU, the club's Program Chairman, arranged to have Gregg Sellers, WB4HRR, present a program on the subjects of Hamwatch, Skywarn, and other public service actvities. (Gregg is still associated with Skywarn).
(Each month, a brief spotlight will appear here on equipment you may have seen at hamfest swap tables.  This month it is the Sideband Engineer's SBE-34 Mobile Transceiver ).
Making its debut in the mid-sixties, the SBE-34 was the answer to a lot of mobileers who wanted a 100-watt, compact mobile rig that covered the most popular ham bands (then 10 thru 80 meters).  The little hybrid rig doubled as an emergency or portable rig by the simple addition of a base power supply.  Its only shortcoming was a universal problem with all SBE-34's...that of having a sorta "flaky" bandswitch which, when changing bands, forced the operator to "rock" the bandswitch back and forth to ensure a good connection.  Occasionally, one appears on hamfest tables in the $200. price range.  A clean one fetches slightly more!
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