Bond paper is regular writing paper made with a large percentage of cotton, i.e. "rag" paper. It's called bond paper because stocks and bonds are printed on it. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/
For the UV-5R someone maintains a web site with exact instructions on which software to use, which drivers to use and an English version of the manual written with the help the people of the Yahoo g
The easy solution is to buy your cable either with a Baofeng or Wouxon label on it. That way you get a good cable with a matching driver. Perhaps this should be common sense but I didn't realize ther
Your XP machine may or may not be a problem, depending on how advanced the updates are, as the later Service Packs are supposed to install the automatic update service - if you can keep it off the in
No, it's not sigle conversion. The TR7 had two IF's. The it's 7am and I have not my morning coffee, so I'm rounding, but the first was around 48mHz and the second around 5. Probably the reason you t
Until someone locates high quality HF analog to digital converters, puts them in a PC and develops DSP software that is far better than anything on the market and charges appropriately. :-) Geoff. --
On 11/6/2014 8:15 PM, Louis Ciotti wrote: Unfortunately this is going to be how things go in the future... semiconductor companies are only going to produce items they can sell in high volumes, and w
On 12/30/2014 7:57 AM, Richards wrote: Your comments reinforce JB's suggestion to visit the ARRL Antenna Book, and perhaps the ARRL Handbook, and maybe research additional books on wire antennas. The
If you look towards the bottom, this has instructions on how to replace the battery. A long time ago, I did many of them to revitalize SUN workstations, which is how I remembered it. http://www.lib.
The ones I rebuilt were standard plastic covered SRAM chips with a battery soldered on top and then potted in a brittle plastic. I found that the best way to get to the battery was to chip away at th
If anyone has a model 1253 or 1054 receiver in good working condition that they would like to sell, please contact me off list at KnoxCOLat AOL.com If you want to do it yourself, you can buy this kit
I'm helping translate documents for the sponsors of World Radio Team Contesting (WRTC) 2018. I am stuck on a word and need help from you guys. Whenever we work and achieve an award such as WAS or WA
I don't know where in its history it started, but Ten-Tec for a long time, possibly since the beginning, did not make a profit from the ham radio business. It was subsidized by their case and militar
The SCAF-1 connects to the audio output of the radio, which is OUTSIDE of the AGC loop. The NESCAF appears to be similar. Look up Doug DeMaw's (I think he was still W1CER at the time) review of the T
Actually it was worse than that. Kodak was an early adopter of digital photography. Maybe too early. The market was not ready for their products, and when it was they were unable to change mid-stream
By the way, I do remember reading that one should not put an amplifier after the HB-1B as it might not then pass FCC requirements. So to me that would be one excuse for taking the KX-3. The original
It's proper name is Avoirdupois. It came from France to England, and possibly from Florence to France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoirdupois The French developed the metric system as part of gett
And the Imperial systems is The Kessel Run in parsecs. :-) Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ Jerusalem Israel. _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@co
DeOxit. Red liquid. Put a tiny drop on the end of a toothpick, apply to contacts. Move switch around, remove with cotton swab. Warning. This will cause the wafers to swell, do not get any on them. Al