You are so correct, Mac!!! It certainly is a good project for the newbie -
simple and certainly would give a sense of accomplishment which is so
important in home brewing (which I still do in amateur radio and radio
astronomy).
You and I lost everything. Your's was the tornado. Mine was the High Park
FIre in 2012 when we still lived in the forest. Yes, we lost everything,
but will never forget the privilege of sharing the forest with the wildlife
for 15 years - bears, deer, eld, chipmonks, mountain lions...... One must
understand they came first in the forest, but respect them, and its just a
memorable privilege to have lived in their territory with them. As you can
see from myh QRZ page, we still are not in the city by choice, for peace
and quiet, but also for radio astronomy and amateur radio.
My first station was a DX-40 and AR-3 'receiver'. To this day, I hate to
even write 'receiver' appliced to the AR-3, but it was a good beginning.
It makes me even appreciate more the latest Icom offering of the 7300!!!!!
Dave - WØLEV
On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 11:15 PM D C _Mac_ Macdonald <k2gkk@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Well, Dave and Ed, I don't have that high level background.
> I'm just a retired USAF and FAA radio repairman that will
> hit my 67 year license anniversary at the end of next month.
>
> My eyesight is sort of going away after a stroke in my left eye
> back in 2013 and depth perception about nil now. Lost house,
> tower, antennas, vehicles in tornado back in 1999 and no place
> in new place for much of any shop work.
>
> I reckon I could gather parts and build a Common Mode choke
> if a parts list for Mouser or similar were available.
>
> My first rig was the Walter Ashe Novice Station and I later built
> a 6AG7 to parallel 807s from the handbook. Even converted the
> ARC-5 transmitter to the W2EWL phasing SSB rig.
>
> I just think this might be a project that even beginners could take
> on and get him or her started in building something.
>
> 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5
> Since 30 Nov 1953
> Oklahoma City, OK
> USAF (Retired) 61-81
> FAA (Retired) 94-10
> ------------------------------
> *From:* David Eckhardt <davearea51a@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, October 2, 2020 17:04
> *To:* D C _Mac_ Macdonald <k2gkk@hotmail.com>
> *Cc:* Hare, Ed W1RFI <w1rfi@arrl.org>; rfi <rfi@contesting.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [RFI] NEW REFRIGERATOR/FREEZER from KITCHENAID
>
> Mac, I'd be a little embarrassed to write an article on something so
> simple, but that's QST and ARRL these days.
>
> However, I certainly will take your suggestion under consideration. I've
> been licensed for 60+ years and have a hard time with the lack of technical
> knowledge of the average newbie. Degree is in physics (from the Ordivician
> times from Michigan State.....) and always worked in high tech, mostly as
> an EMC/RFI engineer with some RF design thrown in for good measure. But,
> it's up to us old fossils who cut our teeth with vacuum tubes like 813's
> and 6146's to pass along some of the knowledge. I was reading QST when
> Eimac came out with the 3-500 bottle of which I have two in my AL-82 amp.
> I loved the 3CX1200A amp from Ameritron, but that amp is gone in a major
> forest fire here in N. Colorado in 2012. Again, I will seriously consider
> your suggestion.
>
> *Ed Hare:* Having written that, do you believe an over designed AC power
> application of a CM choke might be good for QST? Of course, it would also
> cover the operation of the CM choke and applications even at RF to reject
> CM noise on feedlines (I use open wire on my HF wires).
>
> Dave - WØLEV
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 9:45 PM D C _Mac_ Macdonald <k2gkk@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> If it is that good, Dave, why not send it and
> how to build it to ARRL to include in QST for
> the benefit of ALL of us?
>
> 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5
> Since 30 Nov 1953
> Oklahoma City, OK
> USAF (Retired) 61-81
> FAA (Retired) 94-10
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* RFI <rfi-bounces+k2gkk=hotmail.com@contesting.com> on behalf of
> David Eckhardt <davearea51a@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, October 2, 2020 16:31
> *To:* Hare, Ed W1RFI <w1rfi@arrl.org>
> *Cc:* rfi <rfi@contesting.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [RFI] NEW REFRIGERATOR/FREEZER from KITCHENAID
>
> Ed, I'm well aware of the FCC exemptions for home appliances. That's why I
> took it on myself to solve the problem with the well over-designed CM
> choke. Just wish we could post pictures on this site.
>
> Dave - WØLEV
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 8:48 PM Hare, Ed W1RFI <w1rfi@arrl.org> wrote:
>
> > When it comes to appliances, there may be nothing to enforce. Appliances
> > are categorically exempt from any specific emissions limits under Part
> 15.
> > A refrigerator with removed filtering components may be perfectly legal,
> > subject only to the manufacturer's requirement to use "good engineering
> > practice," whatever that means and a requirement for the operator of the
> > device to use it in a way that does not cause harmful interference to
> > licensed radio services.
>
>
--
*Dave - WØLEV*
*Just Let Darwin Work*
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