The North Shore Amateur Radio Club (NSARC) is offering its Ten-Tec Omni VI station for sale. A complete description, including pricing, is available in PDF format via the Club website. The station wi
What is wrong with a weasel? It is a specialist predator of small rodents, and also takes small birds and lizards whenever opportunity offers. I would rather have a weasel or two in my back garden th
The ITU-R AF response mask for SSB transmitters in the maritime radio service is 350 to 2700 Hz at the -6 dB points (Recommendation M.1173). That is a good starting point for SSB radiotelephone trans
Hi Dave, "We"? When I was first licensed in 1962 (as ZS1ZG), I noted that several well-known hams of my acquaintance seemed unable to replace a blown mains fuse in their homes, let alone build a piec
Suggestion: Let's start a new mail-list dedicated to computers and OS issues. I already have a name reserved for it: "non.comp.os.mentis" Cheers for now, 73, Adam VA7OJ/AB4OJ
Hi Bill, The microHam decoder may work in this application. http://www.microham.com There is a more basic problem, though; the Orion lacks an external ALC input. Operation of the IC-2KL without an AL
Guess I was fortunate - my first exposure to music was via live concerts at the Albert Hall in London. I still judge all music systems by the criterion of a live performance. This made the transition
Hi Rob, Liked that! But... Concerning the French and music, I used to listen to "La Chaine France-Musique" (a classical-music network similar to some US NPR stations or CBC2) when I lived in Geneva i
Hi Rob, All current solid-state amplifiers use the ALC line as a part of their protective subsystem. If an anomalous operating condition arises, the amplifier will first reduce the drive power by pul
Hallo Rick, Der Scott in Loden und Lederhosen - stell's Dir mal vor! Himmiherrgott... Tschuess, 73, Adam VA7OJ/AB4OJ Ehem. DJ0AC Well it was a lot of fun in my Bavarian costume. People visiting our b
Hi Carsten, Correction: You do not need to add filters to an IC-746Pro. You cannot, in fact - like the Jupiter, it is a DSP-based radio. The 746Pro covers HF, 6m and 2m. The IC-746Pro is also fitted
Hi Ken, There is a linguistic issue here. As I understand it, the original Japanese text reads "Better than -60 dB". The reference (full rated output) is implied. For English-speaking "gaijin" audien
Hi Ken, Then why did such modes as SITOR with ARQ error-correction replace Morse radio-telegraphy on all point-to-point commercial radio-telegraph circuits decades ago? Cheers for now, 73, Adam VA7OJ
Hi Ken, Precisely. The reason for my original post was that I felt a need to qualify "works better" a little more closely. The original statement that "there isn't any such thing" as a digital mode w
Hi Tom, I used the term "commercial" intentionally, to point out that there are indeed instances (not necessarily in amateur radio) where digital modes other than Morse "work better" than Morse in ra
Hi Rick, "Joe HT" is the kid with the VHF-only licence whom you have seen charging around the flea-market in Dayton or Friedrichshafen, trusty handheld clutched in paw. I have a great new German word
The following was received from a friend of mine in Japan, who is an IC-7800 owner: I received a letter from ICOM Japan. ICOM has scheduled a firmware update in this coming September. The update incl
I was able to view both PDF's via my ISP. You may need to lodge a complaint with your ISP. Cheers for now, 73, Adam VA7OJ/AB4OJ Looks like they removed the info on Boeing & IEEE real fast... ________
Dear Uncle DAvid, << and feed it to the dogs >> I do not eat the contents of whited sepulchres. Stub-wags, Big Max (VA7OJ's Boxer) http://www.qsl.net/ab4oj/max/max.html