Greetings-
In an effort to upgrade my CONTEST station while waiting
for antenna wx, I am thinking about a new used amp.
Currently using an Amp Supply LK500.
Had been thinking of a 76PA, when this Dentron 2000L showed up.
Has an 8877, said to put out 1600w. $900 With all of the QRO
mavens out there, what do you think? A good amp? Or an unwanted
orphan? Any advice appreciated.
Tnx,
K7ST, Adam
>From jdowning@intelenet.net (John Downing) Wed Feb 12 00:36:02 1997
From: jdowning@intelenet.net (John Downing) (John Downing)
Subject: Cuba Libre Heads South
Message-ID: <01BC1839.ADFA5D40@downing-1.intelenet.net>
V31DX V31DX V31DX ARRL SSB DX CONTEST
Well, folks it's that time of the year again when the Cuba
Libre gang gets ansy for another weekend of the contest
mantra "fiveninekilowattqrzveethreeonedeex". So boys and
girls, we're headin back down to the ole contest station at
Ambergris Caye, Belize for a little fun in the sun and seven
or eight thousand contest Qs.
What's new for this year? We don't have any idea if our tower,
beams, or rotator work at all; it's been a year since our last visit.
But, shoot, all we gotta do is point the mess north and churn and
burn them Qs.... Our 160 / 80 meter antenna will be, as usual,
one of the surviving Butternut H2Vs stuck on a pier piling sans
radials - we do through a ground wire in the water to appease the
resonance gods.
We're bringing back the FT1000mp that comprehensively blew up
last year 12 hours into the contest to see how much abuse it'l take
this time. Our old, reliable, Alpha 76PA has finals that are just
about to die of old age and neglect, not to mention the ALC line
that seems to keep getting yanked out in the heat of battle! So
it's staying behind. And in it's place will be a bran spankin new
Ten-Tec Titan which the nice folks at Ten-Tec are rushing off the
production line this week. Thanks guys! This bad boy should
cruise right along through the test at a steady KW out and I'm
lookin forward to it.
QSL as usual to AA6BB.
Maybe next year we're gonna do a DXpedition to the District of
Columbia. Sure looks from here like a foreign country - what do
you think, contest committee?
Have fun in the contest,
John W2NA
Vic KI6IM
Bill WA9L
V31DX - The Cuba Libre Contest Club
>From ke5fi@wt.net (KE5FI) Wed Feb 12 02:19:30 1997
From: ke5fi@wt.net (KE5FI) (KE5FI)
Subject: "Contester" interferes w/ pc: Help!
References: <22331328304773@netbridge.net>
Message-ID: <330128B2.1C7@wt.net>
John Nicholson wrote:
>
> I know there may be better places to post this, but the smartest
> hams hang out on this reflector & I need advice, so here goes:
>
> My neighbor 300' away had an Aptiva 120MHz pentium. No matter
> what I did, I still got into her computer speakers. Being a good
> ham (let's pretend I didn't notice her long blonde hair, ok?) I
> offered to come up with a solution. With that in mind,
> I put .01 caps on the speaker leads, wrapped the speaker
> leads around RF choke torroids, and put a brute force telephone
> filter on her modem. But the speakers STILL picked up my ssb and cw
> (I run 200w out...3 el Quad up 60'). I even switched out speakers
> and have had the same problems. The good news is...
>
> ...in the meantime, she fell in love with me, moved in, learned the
> code, is taking her Tech Plus this weekend...and we are getting
> married in July!...
>
> ...but he bad news is I still haven't found a solution to the Aptiva!
> Does anyone have any experience with this pc...and what I can do next?
> As you can see, I'll go to any extent to get this problem solved... :)
>
> John K7FD and Annette (KC7U??)
John,
I don't think you should try to fix this "problem" Maybe you should
leave "well enough" alone...
Congrats
Chuck, KE5FI
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