I was wondering the same thing, Don. Too bad Tom isn't around to give us the answer. Guess he is out of town or something. Hopefully he will chime in when he gets QRV on the reflector again. 73 de Mi
"Perhaps you could help me get to the point of measurement faster by outlining your test setup and procedure as a guide". Hi Tod, Connect the rig TX output up to scope CH1 using suitably large RF att
Guy, I just re-tested my FT1K MKV with the menu settings adjusted for maximum delay (7-4 = 30ms and 7-5 = 5.1 seconds). It made NO difference I must have some other problem. I am going to have to pul
Hi Tom, I'll give that a try. The FT1K MKV accepts a 0 to -4V external ALC input. It should a simple matter to hook up an external supply and then examine how an ALC "preset" voltage effects the lead
-- Original Message -- Too bad about the radar QRM, Rag. Seems that are only hope in the short term is too listen for those rare days when it appears to be down (probably for maintenance). And to thi
I have found it much easier to "outsource" my DX activities to a third party with a big station in the countryside. Each month I receive an invoice from my DX service provider showing the amount due/
Good question, Ford. The impedance of free space describes the ratio of the electric field to the magnetic field for a propagating plane wave. IOW, if the electric field in a plane wave is 377 volts/
I don't believe so, Jeff. I had a nice little JA run from my portable location in the desert. I doubt that would have been possible had the OTHR been running. It is my understanding that it has been
Jim, I'd like to think that we little guns keep the big guns around just so that there are stations capable of hearing our weak signals. Seriously though, just think how many stations on city lots wi
So, Tom, would it be safe to conclude from your analysis that there is no real benefit to shielding the loop? If the real benefit comes from the pattern, then shouldn't an unshielded loop properly is
10.) Learn to be patient. The weird thing about 160 is that the openings are hard to predict and many times inconsistent. This is the part that makes it interesting. With my high noise level here at
Tom's modification makes a big difference on the falling edges of keying envelope and the rising edge of the intra-charcter keying envelope: http://www.dellroy.com/W4EF's-Ham-Radio-Page/FT1000MP-MKV/
Looks like Ohio State (W8LT) still has a pretty good ham club: http://arc.org.ohio-state.edu/index.php They list 80-10 coverage for their HF equipment, but it looks like the same stuff we had back in
Hi All, I had reported previously that my despite adding the W8JI key-click modification to my FT1000MP MK V it was still clicking on the leading edge character and also on intraword leading characte
Jim, I think if you go back a reread the paragraph referring to split operation you will see that they were addressing the 40 meter phone problem where you have to operate split whether you want to o
Not entirely. The Think Tank guys make a good point in that the most optimum spectrum allocation scheme is a dynamic one. You sort of see that during contests when spectrum that normally isn't used f
I think you can argue that under most conditions #4 doesn't apply. Contests are the only exception. As to whether we want to upset the apple cart just for the sake of making more room on 20 meter pho
Steve, The fact that you can make stations "go away" by switching direction suggests to me that your K9AY loop has a decent pattern. If it was strongly coupling into nearby objects, I would expect th
Very sorry to hear that, Vlad. I wonder if these 55 or so bad QSOs were the result of some operators with overactive imaginations (I think VU2BGS was coming back to me with a report so I will put him
Even if you copy the previous or following QSO number, you are still forced to copy essentially the same additional information (I don't think the rules state anything about when a QSO must start and