Re: Topband: Chassis Bonding

2014-01-29 Thread Gerry Treas K8GT
I bought my Astron SS-30M in 2000 and shortly after found the V- tied to chassis, which I removed. 73, Gerry, K8GT On 1/29/2014 12:12 PM, Shoppa, Tim wrote: snip Lifting the ground connection to V- is a very common modification to Astrons and some sources (e.g.

Re: Topband: QRP and Bird 43 Watt meter help

2012-06-30 Thread Gerry Treas, K8GT
Try Webster Communications in Rochester, Michigan. This is the old Webster Band Spanner mobile antennas. He's still around, I saw him at Dayton this year. He sells Bird elements. Also, don't forget Coaxial Dynamics that sells a wattmeter that uses elements that are compatible with Bird

Re: Topband: The 16th Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge

2011-11-21 Thread Gerry Treas, K8GT
Brian, You'll be very welcomed, but may I suggest that you search and pounce. That will give you a chance to listen to a running station a few times and that will give you a chance to get the other station's call correctly and be able to get his exchange correctly as well, without the

Re: Topband: The 16th Stew Perry TopBand DX Challenge

2011-11-21 Thread Gerry Treas, K8GT
I dunno, but there's usually a big AM'er plunked down there, so it must be. 73, Gerry, K8GT sebdesnCC sebd...@comcast.net wrote: = Is that the net type group there?(1860),I have chatted with folks there a couple times Bud W0HG -Original Message- From:

Re: Topband: TDR and beverages

2011-05-15 Thread Gerry Treas, K8GT
Tree t...@kkn.net wrote: = I have been lusting after a TDR and finally created one by building up one of the simple circuits you see on the internet and hooking it up to my scope. Hi Tree, Yes, I remember my WOW moment in the very early 70's, working the midnight UHF TX