Back about 1990 I discovered the Titan was a lot less cranky with a Radio Works current balun between the Paragon and the amp. Since then I have made a habit of putting one at TX antenna jacks of eac
Well, Rob, if your point is everyone should check their audio - and their signal generally - on all bands I agree with you. One of the local hams delights in giving "bad audio" reports and lives far
Well, growing up in "tornado alley" and then living in the real "tornado capitol of the world," I have had a LOT of experience with nature's sparks. Maybe I'm paranoid but I don't like to lose equipm
Well, according to Win-Eqf - Nick, RU3FM, is in European Russia. Petr, UV3PF, is in the Ukraine. 73 Pete Allen AC5E -- Never squat with your spurs on _______________________________________________ T
HUH: Your Orion won't work with both the internal keyer and the key line from the AUX I/O? Why? Mine does and I never thought about it much. I have mine set up with paddles directly to the key in on
John - you can slide the weights on most bugs out close to the end and slow it down to around 18 to 20 WPM. Some, like mine, have multiple weights that will allow slower speeds. And you can always ad
Well, consistant with is not proof of anything. Close - but consistant with does not win the cigar. Pay the man another two bits and take another shot. And "Table 3 is discouraging" followed by "When
Mario, there are no perfect radios. But there sure are a lot of deliberately imperfect radios on the air. Imperfect radios whose owners seem unjustifiably proud of - judging by the effort they make t
Just got a rather irate E-mail from a list member stating I had sent him a virus and demanding I fix it. There's a couple of problems with that beginning with the fact I have never sent the gent any
The Orion's sweep really does not have the resolution to more than approximately indicate another stations RX bandwidth. An extra wide spike does indicate wide band SSB, wider means AM, and narrow is
There are always rumors, but since there's such a waiting list for the Orion I expect they are still afloat. One of the surest signs of financial trouble is when a company sharply reduces the selling
Well, I found some very wide range digital racket from around 14.3 up to above 18.1 - beam heading 30 degrees east of north - while listening for CW DX on the 17m band. This stuff had a good bit of Q
Eric, from past experience I don't think any written complaint by itself would be worth the paper it's written on. It has always taken a recording of the interference, a couple of reasonably disinter
It would actually make sense to use the filter with the least insertion loss - provided there is not enough IF gain to compensate for the higher loss of a narrower filter. That's something that was a
Generally speaking, the key clicks and the general hash most of us call phase noise (It's actually a mix of phase noise, partition noise, shot noise, Johnson noise, artifacts of multiple mixing, and
Yep, back in 1949 partition noise was defined as an instantanious shift in the relative currents in the elements of a vacuum tube. Circa 1963 anologous shifts in current flow occuring in solid state
Well, partition noise is not a major contributor to TX noise. But it's still there - along with all the other classic noise sources I learned about between WWII and the "Korean Police Action," as wel
It's awkward to measure my "almost built in" Orion but it looks like 12" center to center across the front and about 13" from the front of a rear leg to the front of the front leg. I would figure on
Well, I'll be doggone! If I turn the Orion's sidetone all the way off and the volume all the way down - sending CW into a dummy load - I can hear a clickity click coming from under the rig that's nea
Well, at least the new radio gives us something to talk about. But there are no perfect radios, and this one appears to be another radio that will need a PHD to operate. That is, a Post Hole Digger .