I hate to spoil everyone's fun, but the frequency is not yours to give away. we all have equal right to any freq we are licensed for. I love Ten Tec and have an Orion and have owned corsair II's and
I don't know about the Jupiter, but I have an original Orion and I too about 3 years to finally learn my best settings. This is above and beyond all the set up stuff like mic gain and such. I find in
The ameritron 811 and 811H are good amps for casual use. but you get what you pay for. for instance the power supply runs at 1600 v for the plate. it uses four 400 volt capacitors in the HV power sup
In the shack I use a couple of sealed lead acid batteries, ( sla) . I use the old ones from my mobility scooter (33 ah each) and I use a west mountain powergate to keep them charged. out in the shed
A db9 serial to USB CABLE adaptor ???? It must be more than that. The serial and USB protocols are completely different. Its not a matter of wires. There must be more to the product than that....perh
I standardized everything by using a usb winkeyer ( _www.k1el.com_ (http://www.k1el.com) ) for a pretty decent price and it does all I need, but then I don operate a lot of CW so consistency is impor
Good tuners, that will work on 80 and 160, will by necessity, consist of at least (1) large, expensive, roller inductor, and at least (1) large, expensive, variable capacitor. Really good tuners may
in a word... Steppir I have a 3 ele steppir 6-20 m beam and I love it. it is a perfect antenna on every frequency. no tuner needed. they make beams up to 40m and a couple of verts up to 80 meters. wo
If you ever go to Eham, I think you will find I am a real proponent of the Fan dipole , home brew style. and you don't have to spend $10,000 to do it. BUT< you canalso do a good setup on the cheap if
there is still a bug or two, if you are in ssb using vox and go to cw mode and transmit the orion goes to full power transmit and can not be turned off unless you turn off the radio and then turn it
For some time now I have been toying with the thought of putting together a battery system to run my station during emergencies . I have however little knowledge and no training or experience on how
A steppIR smaller (10 thru 20 meter ) vertical mounted on the shack roof or one of those fiber glass push up poles clamped to the back yard fence and about 25 feet of wire over to the roof of the sha
That's fine, as long as all you want is 12 volts. As I explained in my first post, my goal was to power all kinds of stuff, lights and things, from my emergency supply. A 12 volt DC booster does not
Hi gang Printing more greenbacks isn't the only factor drive down the value of the dollar. The US position in the world of late, isn't very conducive to investment. For some time to come, the euro wi
I am sorry but I would rather have my crummy rig and second rate amp and crummy deaf antennas in front of me, than have some kind of fantastic hear and work everything far away station under my contr
I was getting flicker on my O 1, and I ended up running a braid from the ground on the radio to the ground on the power supply and that took care of it. YMMV tom N6AJR
-- Original Message -- Ebay. you == I did the same thing about a year ago, and was promptly moderated and perhaps still am, so if ya screws up, ya pays the price. No body ever said oh poor baby to me
I agree with Jerry, ( KG6TT) on the so called audio problems. I checked my studio one mic and Heil cable, and the grounds were crossed and not intact. this was causing the BAD audio distortion I was