Chuckle - Rick, the snake lost, but for the rest of the night every time the mike or headphone cord cast a shadow the phone operator was sure it was the snake's mate, come back to get him. He was sti
Hi Paul: Personally, I feel anything that helps a Ten Tec owner belongs on the list. My loop, ex-loop rather, at first was fed with 450 ohm ladder line through a Johnson "Kilowatt Matchbox." Later I
Well, Stuart, I originally bought the site of our last ten years FD's because it is very close to town and it's radio quiet. I drove around seemingly forever with a mobile rig looking for land and li
Doug is good, but I suspect Doug is not the only talent out there. From some things I have seen there are some very good designers looking for work. So all is not lost, by any means. The questionaire
So true. Any TX power gain in one direction is offset by an equal loss in some other direction. 100 watts in gets you 100 watts less resistance losses out. As Billy Whitehead found when he built an a
Jim, my first exposure to "capture area" was in a text from 1935. Then as now, we were taught out of texts ten to twelve years behind the state of the art. Aperture came along in the mid to late 1940
It might be clearer this way. You put a certain amount of RF energy into your antenna system - which will be expended in various ways. Tuner loss, perhaps; transmission line loss certainly. And if so
I definitely agree with Sinisa. I have tried direct feeding an antenna, starting with the antenna terminial on an ARC5 around 1948 or '49, and never had much luck with it. Except at picking up a rema
Well, said, Doc. I'm a manufacturer in a small industry who has watched most of my competition go "offshore" because of the utterly reckless actions of a relatively small number of political appointe
John, I'm far from being a "golden ear," but the Orion ordinarily has very good CW and excellent SSB audio. That was one of the major comments when I had a 756PRO II here for a one on one shootout. A
Well, while I second the motion to file comments with the FCC, and to CONTACT your congressperson, in my experience a telephone call is far more effective than any written letter. Our elected represe
Why are they radios and not "tele" something? Because "telegraphy" meaning far writing was already taken. Radio is a contracted form of the awkward telegraphy by artificial radiation - originally rad
Cable Xperts (www.cablexperts.com) has a decent selection of teflon coax - and will sell you what you need. I have also noted roll ends of various and sundry teflon coax on E-bay, select business and
Hi Ken: The QST articles were in the May and June 1998 issues. If you are a memeber you can find them on the ARRL's Members only website. Do a search for Bandpass Filters and those plus several more
I wasn't a Chicago fan, or even a Cubbies fan in the 70's, more of a Browns fan in the '40's and a Detroit Tigers fan in the very early 1950's. But I got it, liked it, and if the moderator doesn't ta
Well, Rick - 1:1 SWR means 0 Watts of reflected power. I just tune for mininum reflected power, and ignoring transmission line losses 20W out means only ten watts back with a 6:1 SWR. So a 15W reflec
While connecting and disconnecting antennas in this shack, which has 10 pounds of gear in a 2 pound room, is more than a little inconvenient - but setting the AGC for a slight reduction in band noise
Well, since Al has resurrected that topic, I have asked a couple of JA's and gotten the same response I would have to give. Not heard on air. So at least for now it's still vaporware. This for a rig
Well, sounds like you did the upgrade and suddenly you can't transmit. If so, two thoughts occur. First, check the keying loops in the TX menu. If you are using a QSK amp, or amps, these should be on
Hi Bernard: there are quite a few postings on this reflector concerning AGC (and other) settings. Most of them include information of interest to an Orion owner. Let me suggest you do a search and pr