As of 8:07 a.m. yesterday (Friday), the 800-677-6906 number WAS active. I gave the lady my name and confirmation number, she quoted the last four-digits of my credit card which I confirmed, and she sa

As Jack suggests, CLEAN but do not abrade, file, or in any other way damage the silvering on those contacts. 73, Kent K9ZTV

Hi Larry ... Number for Skeeter Hunt, please: N0SS Two ops: Kent Trimble, K9ZTV Bill Gerth, W4RK Missouri

Be careful of these. Not because they aren't excellent speakers, which they are. At last count I have six for use at Field Day, Frankenstein, Boy Scout doings, QRP Sprints, etc. They were the speaker

I understand your thinking, but nothing would need to be changed. Just add, after the CST time and date, parentheses containing the GMT time and date. That’s what the ARRL does. GMT/UTC exists to redu

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John, you missed his point. The date for the Sprint changes to Monday, February 11th, when you give it in UTC. 73, Kent K9ZTV

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Probably a good opportunity to remind all new-comers (who probably know regulations better than old-timers) that the FCC's jurisdiction encompasses only American radio activities and frequencies. Wint

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Don't give up so quickly on 80-meters, although trying to work it with 5-watts does test the mettle of the operator. Last Wednesday, Paul Smith (Kansas) reported that Bill Dekl (Oklahoma), a distance

Bob, Nothing has changed. “R” still means “received okay.” Kent K9ZTV

Negative. It has nothing to do with brevity of sending. CW ops use “R” for a decimal because it’s been considered as such for at least a hundred years, and because a period is intellectually different

Too bad the Murania won’t be tuning-in the warm memories of Dick Biondi, Wolfman Jack, Franklin McCormick, KDKA’s Party Line, Brother Jessup and his “Healin’ Handkerchief” and the like. Maybe they’re

Too bad the Murania won’t be tuning-in the warm memories of Dick Biondi, Wolfman Jack, Franklin McCormick, KDKA’s Party Line, Brother Jessup and his “Healin’ Handkerchief” and the like. Maybe they’re

CTRL/+ will also enlarge text and pictures in Windows. CTRL/- will reduce them. K9ZTV

All of which is exactly why Elecraft repeatedly refuses requests to subdivide its reflector. One reflector. One website. Kent K9ZTV

Working fine for me. K9ZTV

The owner of the Kent shop and his wife have manned a booth at Dayton for several years. I have one of the original Titanic keys they reproduced in the 1970s and it is certainly worthy of interest. 73

Easy. Unsolder from its pad the last winding, solder an extension to it, resolder the extension to the pad. 73, Kent K9ZTV

In order to get my 4S Tuner to match on the very low end of 80 I had to add an additional turn to the T-106-2 toroid, thus making 22 turns. Works FB now. 73, Kent K9ZTV

While we're talking corrections, the assembly manual for the 4S Tuner still directs the soldering of R6 to one end of R4 and one end of R5, when in fact the current boards have added soldering pads an

Like Bill (KX8I), I also sought stations on both 40 and 80 for a good 45 minutes and heard absolutely nothing while intermittantly calling CQ-4S. I even cranked up to 100 watts to see if I could raise