The sun may actually be coming back. I have been watching the smoothed sunspot
number climb from 0 to 29 over the past several days, and the solar flux has
finally crept up a bit (at 78 as I write this).
This has compelled me to get up early (1300-1400z) to hunt for DX... SM4OTI has
been
Gee, I was just looking for an opportunity to send someone mail about this.
Some time ago (jeez, 20 years!) I was involved in the design of a number of
experimental personal workstations at DEC's research labs. On one of them, we
built in a bunch of audio gear to play with the then-novel
I've never been convinced that my KNB2 worked as planned. I have the K2 open
today to install the K160RX, and decided to work on the KNB2.
I found the archive messages about scratching Q21. I can only get any noise
out of this with the pre-amp on - don't know if that's as expected or not. No
I've been moving my K2 around a bunch over the past few months, and find myself
wishing that I had a decent fitted bag for it (I end up wrapping it in bubble
wrap). I've heard about the TacPac, I know that they're no longer made (despite
assurances that the company was being sold to someone who
Even though I'm sure that design work for the K1 is pretty far from almost
everyone's mind...
I've got a new-to-me K1 (s/n 735) and it's got both 4-band (40/30/20/15) and 2-band (80/17) boards.
Those are pretty good combinations at a higher point in the solar cycle - but right now, I find that
I contacted Powerwerx about pre-made cables, and got this reply:
Sorry, we do not have any plans to manufacture and cables with coaxial
connectors. There are so many different sizes the it would be impossible
to have just the right size for everyone.
This is apparent in my vast wall wort
Don,
It's taken me several weeks to get to this, but tonight was the night. I had
tested and determined that the base K2 was fine, but neither the KPA nor KAT
controlled power correctly. The parts folks had sent me diodes.
Boy, what a nuisance these are to replace! Julius N2WN had suggested
I was inspired to try to adapt the headset I use for VOIP to the K2, since I
wanted to play with SSB a little. I got the idea from something that W2ENY is
selling on ebay :-) I'm writing this up so it's in the archives in case someone
else has the idea (and remembers to look).
How hard could
Rick Tavan N6XI wrote:
Have you rearranged your station or added any equipment lately? Your
problem sounds somewhat like the magnetic flux interference that some
K2s experience in proximity with large power transformers. It can be
quite dramatic if you transmit while moving the radio in and
Ron AC7AC wrote:
A bolt is specifically a screw that is cylindrical: it always takes a nut.
Egad! Even nuts, bolts and screws can get complicated!
--
What about lag bolts?
Larry Ingram AG4NN
Or machine screws?!?
The def'n I learned at one point is that a screw is fully
After many months, this thread rears its ugly head again :-)
At the time, I said that I would take a crack at updating Your Novice Accent
and collecting resources for the new ham who is trying to get proficient at CW.
I decided, after a while, that updating YNA was something I didn't want to
I hear N5PHT on 40M most mornings near sunrise during my commute here on
Cape Cod (Massachusetts). I believe he runs a 2 element yagi at 85
feet, so if you worked him on 40M, that probably helped a bit :-) -
good DX, probably grayline, for sure!
Hmm. I've been thinking that I need to get
I would agree that you should try Ham Radio Deluxe, along with all the
programs included it's a wonderful tool (including auto uploads to
Eqsl). At this time PSK31 Deluxe that is part of the suite is being
replaced and is in Beta testing, the digital mode program is called
DM780 and will be
I'm cleaning out the garage; these will go out with the recycling this
week if nobody wants them:
Spool of CAT-5, about 100' yellow
Spool of CAT-5, about 100' blue
LMR-400 assembly, about 50', terminated with TNC males
LMR-400 assembly, about 50', terminated with TNC male and N male
All in
Drought and beetle kill have taken the antenna supports (incense cedar
and sugar pine trees) at my vacation QTH, and I'm not spending enough
time there to justify a tower - so I'm decommisioning the station there.
Ten-Tec Hercules II amp - 550w max out, takes 12v power
Ten-Tec 229B tuner - 2Kw
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