Hi, There is a little time left but I hear *no* signals at all now (daylight). I got skunked. In between thunderstorms I tried to contact other stations. I heard a lot of regional activity but I coul
Hi, I have been limping along with a really ugly replacement power supply in my big computer. It's networked (think of internet tools). I could hear *nothing* on my radios aside from the racket made
Hi Kim, The tower with the original power supply did NOT interfere at all with radios. Somebody else gave me a make and model of a well behaved ATX power supply and I ordered one. I have been making
Hi Jim, This PC did not produce any interference before I replaced the power supply. That tells me I shouldn't expect any interference from any of the parts that were in use before. I'll post the inf
--snip-- I found a similar circuit and copied that into my power supply. Now I can't hear it in the radio. I'm pumped <grin>. $10 for the modular units seems pretty reasonable to me. I'll be looking
Hi, I can't get past the fact that in the cloud I would be entrusting complete strangers with *everything* I have on record including the privacy of my data. I just don't trust any big city strangers
Hi, I have moved comments with interested people regarding backups and clouds, etc off list. I got into this thread because I too was getting intolerable interference form a desktop computer power su
And by band. This is a top band list but other bands have already been introduced into the discussion. 73, Bill KU8H _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw
Has anybody called the fire department? We have flames and smoke rolling out of here. 73, Bill KU8H _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Hi, The butane soldering tools have been mentioned and I have used them too. For heavier work I had to resort to a regular propane torch. That was for heavy dipole wire and the center conductor of RG
--snip-- Hi, My antennas are indeed special. They fit in a rectangle 100 feet long by 35 feet wide. That I can work any stations at all on 160 and hear stations on 600 meters is - *special*. I have b
--snip-- --snip-- --snip-- Right On! --snip-- --snip-- Lucky me there is no "HOA" where I live. Mention HOA and everybody says "huh? No way". I am about 4000 feet from the nearest runway but that is
Hi Tom, I have several private messages and some of them tell me that my 4000 foot distance from the side of that runway alone is enough to make it irrelevant. I don't know about the official status
Hi Rick, My own wild guess would be to use something like copper flashing (wide - flat) that could be curved around that piece of pipe like a cylinder or cone. Connect your radials to the bottom end
Hi George, My own experience with those modes that can dig out signals from below the noise is they are too slow to be any use for much beyond "propagation studies". I am doing a very little bit of t
Hi, This whole topic is unpleasant. I personally don't encounter very much of this kind of thing but I might as I increase my top band activity. I use the bottom part of the band in an effort to avoi
Hi, I dunno about Jim's real estate but a full size 80 meter dipole would extend off from my lot. Somebody else in a different thread concerning this pointed out that those blessed with large territo
Hi, This also presupposes that the only reason to even be on top band is to chase after DX. I have no aversion to chatting with DX hams but I am more interested in rag chewing and North American hams
Hi, The whiteboard is marked up for the Stew Warmup. I'll be operating QRP as that's all I have. When the real deal gets here I might have the DX-100 ready! Can you hear me now? (evil grin). I manage