One leg of my doublet is on the roof and frozen to the ground.... It KINDA loads... I will be around in the morning... de Paul N0NBD Sent from my iPad

Sorry abt your bad luck Wayne. Maybe we can all throw out our call signs Tuesday snd Wednesday am and see who is listening! Several years ago, I had a low G5 which i fed with qro, ( remember those

Luckily Christmas is supposed to be around 40F here so I hope to get some ice melted off my antennas. My random wire was hanging low this weekend. -- Tom Sevart N2UHC St. Paul, KS

Chuck,Thanks! That's exactly the information I needed. I ordered some of the polivaricon capacitor kits from Rex Harper at qrpme.com about a month ago, but he's been busy assembling kits for the

Jim, The lower frequency is typical of the Rock-mights too. In most circuits with parallel resonant crystals, a series capacitor/trimmer will raise the frequency. An inductor in series will lower

I will be away on christmas eve with family so I would like to eliminate our PSK net for this week. Tnx for your understanding and Merry Christmas. Dick, N0TGR

Merry Christmas Terry Drive safe Bert

Well it's forced me to do something I likely should have done months ago, replace the timber mast with a sectional metal one I have ready to go. just wait a few more days for the wx to improve and

I'll likely be out of the shack on Wednesday evening so I'm not planning on the 80M net. If I do get home early enough to get on the air, I'll post a note on the reflector and we can have a go at

I have recently built several QRP cw transmitters, all based on Lew Smith's Simple 17 meter QRP Transmitter design, but in different bands. Without exception, the transmitting frequency of all of

ARGHH!! Sri to hear that Wayne, hope you can repair it fairly easily,and soon. It does a nice job for you. I'll probably be out ofthe shack on Wednesday evening so I'm not planning on the 80Mnet.

Good morning all, Well if the old adage about your antenna not being big enough if it survives the winter is true then mine was big enough! Night before last ice brought mine down, snapped the timber

If you happen to get sight of a copy of the late great Gilbert Davey's book "Fun With Shortwave Radio" the one with a picture of the London Science Museum's Ham Radio room - GB2SM, you'll see, built

Hardly the romance associated with older TTY equipment, but the Dataspeed 40 terminals and printers haunted my territory in Oklahoma for 18 months after I started with Union Pacific RR in

20's really long too. Just worked 9V1YC in Singapore - long path with the KX3 on 14.027. He was calling NA Long Path and working split - UP 2. I managed to get him just before he went QRT. Clean

40M is stretched out already. I just heard AB6X in Idaho on 7122 with a 579 signal. ---------------------------------- Back to the bench, Winter's too valuable to waste. I love this radio stuff

Auburn, Alabama is a long haul from Park City, Kansas Tom, besides my wife would kill me if I brung a Model 15 back into the house. She remembers the days when I was doing preventative maintenance on

For those of you that don't know what a TG-7B is, it's the old Teletype Corp. Model 15 KSR (KSR stands for "keyboard send/receive") and it has a keyboard. These were the mainstay of ham RTTY for

I have an TG-7-B made for the Army Signal Corp. with documentation , manuals, dry ribbon, no paper rolls. One of the manuals has some paper work from NAAS OCEANA dated 1943. I believe this machine

Pretty Neat Terry Pam heard me playing the video and wanted to know if it was a sewing machine!! I said no, it it runs just as smooth! 72 Johnny AC0BQ "More smiles per Watt!"Sent from my iPad