After reading all the contest reflector emails about what is important in contesting to everyone; the main thread that interested me was the one that talked about being excited and having fun. So.........
I dragged out the old set I used to get the VK flying doctors baseball cap a few years ago, a station that if you heard me you should have been excited, and if I heard you I should have been excited! And I was! So in this STEW If you hear me you have heard an anemic voltaged rockbound 6AU6/5763 MOPA keyed by a home made key, at 5 watts accurately measured by my EICO725 SWR POWER METER. And if I heard you, it was a with 1x2 foot loop antenna followed by two stages 6SN7 differential RF amp followed by a 6SN7 Pullen mixer followed by a 450 Kcs 6SN7 regen detector, with the usual assortment of audio tubes ending up with a 6K6 to earphones. So if I move more than 25 Kcs of so I have to touch up 8 different knobs (5 RF, 1 band set, 1 regen control, 1 MOPA final tune). Now we are back with a station that like that in the movie: (Honey, I contacted the moon!) where every contact makes for an exciting radio moment! mike w7dra What? You never heard of a Pullen mixer? Live contest youtube video forthcoming where the above station is shown working actual 160 meter amateur operators. ____________________________________________________________ Fast, Secure, NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband. Try it. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=NZINTISP0512T4GOUT2 _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
