Re: [time-nuts] Off Topic Sortof: Board Rework Stations

2013-11-14 Thread Glenn Little
This is the station that I bought. It is not as sophisticated, but,not as much either. http://www.ebay.com/itm/11632887?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649 73 Glenn WB4UIV At 09:45 PM 11/14/2013, you wrote: Bob, Yes - you definitely need the appropriate lens - here is a s

Re: [time-nuts] Off Topic Sortof: Board Rework Stations

2013-11-14 Thread John C. Westmoreland, P.E.
Bob, Yes - you definitely need the appropriate lens - here is a seller that has everything listed: http://www.ebay.com/itm/INFRARED-T862-SMT-SMD-REWORK-STATION-SOLDERING-WELDER-IRDA-BGA-MACHINE-/200949973718?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ec98d42d6 I opted to get this though: http://www.ebay.c

Re: [time-nuts] Loran

2013-11-14 Thread paul swed
Sounds pretty good not banging in here like the old chain did. austron 2100 says 38db srs700 says 47 rcvr gain and 25 db noise margin. hp3856b's says -53dbm or 500uv. Regards Paul WB8TSL On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:40 PM, J. Forster wrote: > What's the signal strength like? > > -John > > =

Re: [time-nuts] Off Topic Sortof: Board Rework Stations

2013-11-14 Thread Bob Camp
Hi If you look at the eBay listings they mention in some of them that what they are selling is “without lenses”. My impression was that you needed to focus the IR (like with a lens) to really get it to work well. I did not dig far enough to sort that part out. Bob On Nov 14, 2013, at 6:41 PM,

Re: [time-nuts] Loran

2013-11-14 Thread J. Forster
What's the signal strength like? -John === > Oh that is indeed interesting that they are moving forward. > The GRI is 89700. > SRS700 locked and looking good. > Just brought the Austron 2100 and 2100F on line. > The 2100 is tied to the local RB and the f is tied to the HP3801. > The SRS700

Re: [time-nuts] Off Topic Sortof: Board Rework Stations

2013-11-14 Thread John C. Westmoreland, P.E.
Graham, Thanks - good info. On eBay you can get these for ~$250.00 - depending on whether it is the T-862 or T-862++. So I guess that is a pretty good buy. Best Regards, John AJ6BC On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Graham / KE9H wrote: > John: > > We have one at work. It basically works as

Re: [time-nuts] Loran

2013-11-14 Thread paul swed
Oh that is indeed interesting that they are moving forward. The GRI is 89700. SRS700 locked and looking good. Just brought the Austron 2100 and 2100F on line. The 2100 is tied to the local RB and the f is tied to the HP3801. The SRS700 looks at the RB. I pulled the Austron 2000 out of the rack seve

Re: [time-nuts] Off Topic Sortof: Board Rework Stations

2013-11-14 Thread Graham / KE9H
John: We have one at work. It basically works as represented. It takes some skill to run, and takes some time to develop the safe settings for soldering different sized items. It puts out a tremendous amount of infrared heat, and you can melt things if you are not careful. For instance, it wil

Re: [time-nuts] Loran

2013-11-14 Thread Tom Van Baak
> Well lets see. Just warming up the srs700. > UrsaNav must have received some support $ > Regards > Paul > WB8TSL Paul, See below, via Adobe OCR on a JPG press release: --- From: "UrsaNav Press Contact" Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 10:31 AM Subject: UrsaNav Accepts eLoran Transmitter from

Re: [time-nuts] Loran

2013-11-14 Thread Scott McGrath
What GRI are they using Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 13, 2013, at 8:59 PM, "Rich and Marcia Putz" wrote: > > Hi all; > > For any one interested, Loran's back up again. Sounding good in northern > Indiana. > > Rich > ___ > time-nuts mailing list --

Re: [time-nuts] Loran

2013-11-14 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
No sign of Loran signals on 100 KHz here. On 11/13/2013 07:06 PM, paul swed wrote: Well lets see. Just warming up the srs700. UrsaNav must have received some support $ Regards Paul WB8TSL On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Rich and Marcia Putz wrote: Hi all; For any one interested, Loran's ba