I'm inspired now to develop my idea for the Extended Double-Schlep, the go-anywhere portable antenna! Thanks for the April Fools Day laugh. 73, Dave ND3K 73, AA2PM, Paul Mondok Before printing this d
I have been inactive for about 15 years, and during that time my equipment (including a lot of Ten-Tec rigs) has been off and in storage. It's been in a climate controlled closet, so there should be
There used to be some hams who sold foreign postage for outgoing SASEs. The two I remember are James Mackey K3FN and Bill Plum. Mackey's web site is at http://www.airmailpostage.com/, but it doesn't
Jerry makes some good points about taking care when using NEC. I have a few comments to add, interspersed below. Message: 1 Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:07:39 -0600 From: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson"<geraldj
Dear Steve and Jerry, I think I might not have been clear in my original post about the 3 dB gain "error" in NEC. The moment method codes like NEC, EZNEC, Mininec, and all of their variants are calcu
All good information, but one minor correction is needed. The lowest molecular resonance of liquid water (or at least distilled water at room temperature and standard atmospheric pressure) is around
Sounds like a great idea to me. It makes the folks who want computer and/or remote operation happy, yet the standalone radio with knobs is there for those who prefer a more tactile experience. If I h
Interesting timing...I was just thinking in the last couple of days that a few people on this reflector could stand to eat more ketchup. 73, Dave NB4J At 12:00 PM 4/11/2005 -0400, you wrote: Heard on
Mike, For in-ground radials you don't need to worry about getting the lengths exactly right. As someone else said, the longer the better, but if you have settled on 1/4 wave (free space length) as a
And once again, the question of 30x 1/4 vs 60x 1/8 wavelength radials remains unanswered. I find that to be a very interesting and practical question. In all of my reading in the past, including W6SA
On going very interesting discussion: RF/IF vs audio. Well, do you understand the difference between these two words: acoustic and electromagnetic?? If one signal is acoustic and the other electromag
Does the Corsair I also have the dual-receive feature when using the external VFO? Thanks and 73, Dave NB4J At 12:04 PM 2/2/2003 -0500, AB9M wrote: For contesting and DXing with frequent band changes
Thanks for the info, Paul. 73, Dave NB4J Where do you think the japanese got the idea 15 or so years later? :-) 73! =paul= W8KC Collector of Ten*Tecs and other fine plastics. Visit the Virtual Ten*Te
Ronnie, One other thing you can do that hasn't been mentioned is to operate in any major CW contest. I say "major" contest because that kind will offer the chance for you to go from QSO to QSO with l