Looks like everyone is going to play one-up for a while. Which is OK - but I 'spect we are going to see a lot of Munchausen-ism. Or as old Roxie White would say, "Them minners is gunna turn inter wha
Chuckle! At the moment we have some pictures; a description that has the earmarks of something written by an Advertising Executive jg instead of an insider in the engineering staff; and lots and lots
The Ampkeyer from <A HREF="www.heathkitshop.com">www.heathkitshop.com</A> does a good job of interfacing amps with high voltage keying lines to solid state gear. Harbach also has some mods for the SB
Well, there's at least on thing in 60 Meters favor. It should be fairly simple to build trap dipoles for 60/30. I was tinkering today with coaxial traps resonant at 9.9 to 10 mHz that should do quite
Let me add a bit to Jim's comments. We have "rig shootouts," where someone brings their "latest and greatest rig on the market" to put it up against the reigning "king of the hill." After all, specs
Hi Mark: Down here in the monsoon belt the first thing new hams learn is to bring your transmission line to ground level and use a good lightning arrestor at ground, and a current balun between the a
Earl, K6SE, posting on his experience with the Orion paralell's my own - with one exception. I had not noticed any extranious noises using headphones. And since I had tried all the headsets in the "c
We used an Astron RS35 for several years with a hefty deep cycle marine battery, a Wal Mart 3A trickle charger, and a 150 Amp diode at our repeater sites. The voltage drop is mininal and ASTRONS seem
Since it's been suggested - I have tried several "small" 375-425 VA UPS on an Omni VI - usually to allow us to operate FD while the generators were shut down. The setups were Astron 35's powering the
Very nice pix of the Orion on the TenTec web site, showing the usual struggle to get uniform lightning with umbrellas and soft boxes. It's a real pain to make an absolutely perfect image when you hav
Glad I'm not the only one that still reaches for a slipstick first. I carry one in my truck, one in my desk, and one here in the shack. Pickett Rules! 73 Pete Allen AC5E
The 962 will do fine if your antennas are pretty well matched, or if you can restrain your enthusiasm by a few watts. If you want the full 100 + watts under all conditions it will take 25 Amps. But b
My vote is for a single reflector at contesting.com. And yes, the Orion did rock for WPX. Now, if I could only have gotten time away from my business to contest! 73 Pete Allen AC5E
HI Chip: I know about those absences from ham radio - I was out from ca 1957 to 1989 myself. But in this area we have something called a "rig shootout." Everyone brings their new rig, hooks it to the
One of the best things I ever did was to to <A HREF="www.grc.com">www.grc.com</A> ( Gibson Research home page) and do the "test my shields, probe my ports" deal. Read all about it, then do it. There'
$7,995 translates to roughly 940,000 yen at 117 to the buck, and the new Icom will probably list for 950,000 to 1 Million Yen in Tokyo. And be at about the same elevated price point in dollars over h
I will have to pass on nine fof the reasons. The only reason I can think of to put money down on a rig that I cannot compare to my present best performing rig is insanity. Particularly since there's
My initial impression from studying the gigaparts web site pix on a 19" monitor was the 7800 was a mockup with a translucent panel instead of a display. That seems confirmed by recent comments. Reall
A TenTec Omega is an interesting concept - but at this time it's interesting rather than practical. The market for such a radio is certainly small and it may well be nonexistant. Personally, I had ra