Hello All.
Ya know, I'm in my 50's and people still amaze me.  I advertised or more like 
mentioned that I'd give away some PL encoders, all one had to do was put a 
SAS-Floppy Disk Mailer (not an ordinary sase) in a manilla envelope and send 
it to me. In return I'd send one or two PL encoders.
Well, someone has done one better.  He sent me a Floppy Disk Mailer with the 
proper postage and labels to return the mailer.  So, Jeff Kinkaid has two 
encoders on their way in tommorow's outgoing mail...
I found the paperwork on the encoder and have made a few copies.  Everybody 
will get a copy.  Anybody wishing to build these encoders, there's a 
schematic and board layout, so it should be a piece of cake.  There's no 
chips to buy, just a 2N3904 and a 2N3906, some caps and resistors and a 
tunable pot. Gotta be cheap to build this one...
These encoders were a club project way back in 1980 or so.  I was the 
repeater trustee and the 2mtr band around here was becoming crowded, so we 
planned on PLing the 147.030 +600 repeater (1kw capable Motorola).  This was 
a retirement community repeater and a lot of members were retired.  Not low 
income retired, but retired military, excutives, etc..  I and maybe 10 others 
out of the 80 plus members were almost 40 at this time.  Anyway, a few of the 
old timers decided they would build these encoders to be distributed among 
the members who wanted them.
I know two of the three that built these are dead now, and the third is 
traveling the country in his motor home.  Ken, K0??, if you hear him. He'd 
remember me as he wasn't retired yet, but was maybe 10 to 15 years older than 
me. And I visited with him many times in his trailor before he went 
permanetly mobile.
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