Re: Topband: Spring Stew Perry in a few more days
Hi Jim, Thanks. I started getting RF power out on transmit! I still have a lot to do. It's rude and crude! I spent enough time with the scope and generator today that as soon as I had some RF out of it I quit for the day. Staying at it too long leads to mistakes and frustration :) Alignment, balancing, phasing are next. And oh by the way - nice to have some idea of operating frequency. The dial still needs repair. I can tell when I'm inside the ham band but more precision than that - not yet. 73, Bill KU8H On 03/02/2016 01:37 PM, James Rodenkirch wrote: I'll be lookin' for ya as a QRP contestant, BillGL getting that Atlas up and runnin' 71.5/72 de Jim R. K9JWV _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Re: Topband: Spring Stew Perry in a few more days
I'll be lookin' for ya as a QRP contestant, BillGL getting that Atlas up and runnin' 71.5/72 de Jim R. K9JWV From: Topband <topband-boun...@contesting.com> on behalf of Bill Cromwell <wrcromw...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 11:28 AM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: Spring Stew Perry in a few more days Hi, Somebody mentioned the Stew is coming 'round again so I finally remembered to look it up. It will be here a week from Saturday. I have been 'on a roll' at my workbench getting the old radios operational again. I am going to flog myself attempting to have the station ready to get on the air with a patched up antenna (frost is still in the ground). My Atlas 180 is coming along pretty well. I stopped using it about twenty years ago (where did the time go!) and it has deteriorated just sitting on the shelf. Magic? It is receiving pretty well now. Most of the transmitter is trying to work now. It wouldn't even think about it last week. No RX. No TX. Nada. I printed a copy of the voltage charts and I'll use that to isolate the trouble. I can see that somebody in the past made some "improvements" or at least some repairs. I suspect a broken wire or a solder joint. Maybe one of those pesky electrolytic caps. At high volume the RX audio is "raspy" and I have been ignoring that - keep the volume down to just my garage. And the DX-100 is wanting to work. It would be great to have both available. The Kenwood R-599 has 160 on it and works as well as it ever did. Just needs a TX to go with. The matching T-599 does NOT have Top Band. What's up with that? I do have a real life aside from ham radio (like most of us) so I will have to *focus* to be on 160 in time for the Stew. I hope to see you on the air - *soon*. 73, Bill KU8H _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Topband: Spring Stew Perry in a few more days
Hi, Somebody mentioned the Stew is coming 'round again so I finally remembered to look it up. It will be here a week from Saturday. I have been 'on a roll' at my workbench getting the old radios operational again. I am going to flog myself attempting to have the station ready to get on the air with a patched up antenna (frost is still in the ground). My Atlas 180 is coming along pretty well. I stopped using it about twenty years ago (where did the time go!) and it has deteriorated just sitting on the shelf. Magic? It is receiving pretty well now. Most of the transmitter is trying to work now. It wouldn't even think about it last week. No RX. No TX. Nada. I printed a copy of the voltage charts and I'll use that to isolate the trouble. I can see that somebody in the past made some "improvements" or at least some repairs. I suspect a broken wire or a solder joint. Maybe one of those pesky electrolytic caps. At high volume the RX audio is "raspy" and I have been ignoring that - keep the volume down to just my garage. And the DX-100 is wanting to work. It would be great to have both available. The Kenwood R-599 has 160 on it and works as well as it ever did. Just needs a TX to go with. The matching T-599 does NOT have Top Band. What's up with that? I do have a real life aside from ham radio (like most of us) so I will have to *focus* to be on 160 in time for the Stew. I hope to see you on the air - *soon*. 73, Bill KU8H _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
