COX .049! Gee, you shudda tried the Thor .019's, circa 1947. It didn't matter what fuel you used, they were completely odorless. You could spin 'em all day and they wouldn't crank! Personally, though
In a perfect world objective testing - numbers only - would provide all the information needed to make a buying decision. But this lacks a heap of being a perfect world. For example, a long time budd
Now I'm the one who is surprised, George. Sometimes I don't even agree with myself, and I certainly do not expect any one else to. But as you say, a high percentage of Icoms do work out of the box. A
Let me extend my sympathy, Mike. I have had a couple of Field Days like that also. Back in '56 we almost broke our backs toting a home brew rig to the FD site, the mosquitos almost ate us up, and we
Hi All: A properly wound coax balun with the layers bucking is an extremely effective balun. I generally use RG213, and a 2" piece of 4" ID plastic pipe with three wire ties spaced equally around the
A #47 or similar panel lamp in a holder attached to a couple of 12" pieces of insulated wiring (usually on the end of a stick) was a pretty common RF indicator way back when. We also used an NE2 or N
With INSULATED wire a simple pickup loop - a metal coathanger always worked well with the panel lamp connected in place of the handle - per the 1938 ARRL Antenna Book. It still needs to be insulated,
Another discussion that brings back memories! No, a single lamp no matter how coupled, won't show balance. That takes two lamps, one for each side of the transmission line, at the same time. And at t
Weeel - a light bulb current indicator is a pretty fair indicator of the presence of RF. And it's been used as one for many years. But tests back in the 1930's comparing brightnesses to determine the
Trying to get the computer to talk to the Omni VI and the Plus can be a first class pain. But it can be done. First, go though the rigs menus and set the port (default should be 4 but you can set it
Unless they have changed the definitition since they changed cycles per second to Hertz; a dBm is "decibels referenced to one milliwatt at a specified impedance." Back in those days, unless some othe
Well, I agree about Ethernet for networked computers. My sales and order fulfillment system at work has 21 workstations, and two servers. The inventory system has its own server and five workstations
While dreaming of a shack with capabilities straight out of the Jetsons is nice - realization at an affordable-to-most-hams is another matter. Essentially - enabling Ethernet on most of the peripheri
The MIlog site lists LAN/SHACK adapters on the ordering page. As I suspected they cost more than a decent to excellent router, and that does not include the extra expense of Ethernet enabled peripher
Carl, your station and WWV don't have to move relative to each other. The only thing necessary for a small frequency shift is a change in the height where refraction /reflection occurs in the ionosph
According to the latest TenTec updates to include 60 will be posted before July 3. And let me add that for the time being at least, it would be by far the most prudent course to set your transmit ban
Well, mine works fine after I turned the internal keyer back on. Although I have not tried the front panel key jack - yes, it works too. LCW and UCW. 73 Pete Allen AC5E
If you can find some plain (unplated) steel screws that will fit you can use either gun blue or parkerizing solution to blacken them to any degree desired. Both should be avaliable at any gun shop or
W6JFR's comments about drift remind me of some CW only rigs I had that would "drift" a KC, kHz, or so with every dah. Made a lot of contacts on the old "chirp box" and nobody said much about it. In f