- 81. Re: [TenTec] OT: Programming Cheap Chinese Handhelds (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:48:41 -0400
- I bought my Wouxon nearly 4 years ago and there was hardly any info available at the time. The problem now, there is too much information. I think the key here is to buy a cable that comes with a dri
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00064.html (11,446 bytes)
- 82. Re: [TenTec] Eagle Tuner (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:53:12 -0400
- ___________________________________________________ Hi Carter -- I liked you question, and ponder... suggest... er... just thinking out loud... I wonder if the important or operative concept is "sign
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00110.html (11,013 bytes)
- 83. Re: [TenTec] Eagle Tuner (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:37:20 -0400
- Ouch! I was afraid of that. That sounds suspiciously like what Jim B was telling me on the other item. Thanks Carl. Math was never my strong suit. Can I use my Mulligan on this little faux pas? -- K8
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00112.html (10,361 bytes)
- 84. Re: [TenTec] Signal to noise (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:31:36 -0400
- Maybe I'm not very talented, but I'd say anything that requires is to concentrate and look away from the field of view for driving is dangerous. I don't trust myself now to dial around, check radio
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00128.html (8,703 bytes)
- 85. Re: [TenTec] Signal to noise (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:32:53 -0400
- Bob: I saw two girls in a Jeep the other day and BOTH were using a cell phone. Do you think they were talking to each other? HI -- Er... um... only if they were BLOND! ;-) -- Anonymous - K8JHR -- ..
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00129.html (8,138 bytes)
- 86. [TenTec] Learning Curve (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:26:09 -0400
- Hi Carl N4PY and Jim K9YC -- Just a note to say I WILL be reading the article in QST on "The Decibel" . . . several times. Maybe I will understand it. Man... I hate math, but like bad tasting medicin
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00130.html (6,992 bytes)
- 87. Re: [TenTec] Zepp? (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:04:26 -0400
- Should he be using a balun AND a remote tuner? I removed the balun and replaced it with a remote tuner. -- K8JHR -- One strange misbehavior I have found that my MFJ 929 auto tuner lockup if placed ne
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00149.html (9,747 bytes)
- 88. Re: [TenTec] Zepp? (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 21:36:32 -0400
- Yes.... so, I try my question again: Why does he need a balun? Why not just connect the tuner to the feed line and skip the balun ? Here is why I ask: The tuner will take itself off line whenever SWR
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00157.html (10,623 bytes)
- 89. Re: [TenTec] Zepp? (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 22:17:50 -0400
- OK... I thought he could use the wire binding post, and the ground connector, for balanced line. If not... never mind. I get it. -- K8JHR -- __________________________________________
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00160.html (9,946 bytes)
- 90. Re: [TenTec] Zepp? (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:23:34 -0400
- -- I take it you are thinking of the old End Fed Zepp, while he may be thinking of the Extended Double Zepp, and shortened it for convenience to merely, "Zepp." -- and the Double Extended Zepp is mor
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00173.html (11,986 bytes)
- 91. Re: [TenTec] Zepp? (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:05:41 -0400
- But I would like to try the OCF method mentioned by Rick DJ0IP. Sounds like for a 44 ft OCF antenna the feed point would be 19ft/25ft. Correct? Hoping I can get 10M to play better and would like bett
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00174.html (13,798 bytes)
- 92. Re: [TenTec] Zepp? (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:25:09 -0400
- As Ken Brown says, the names get corn fused and mis-applied such that they take on new connotations all the time. A "Windom" was originally a single wire, feed off center with a single wire vertical
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00185.html (10,198 bytes)
- 93. Re: [TenTec] Antenna names (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 02:34:22 -0400
- Do you have a counterpoise or other ground system for that long wire/tuner combo? If so, what? Thanks. ________________________________________
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00191.html (9,824 bytes)
- 94. Re: [TenTec] SWR is a DUMB Indicator of Antenna Performance (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:52:51 -0400
- Bravo! Ask Rick DJ0IP to send you a copy of Prof Cebik's rant on atnenna marketing. It is priceless. And... I can safely and honestly say, "I have HEARD everyone I have WORKED on my antennas..." :-)
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00200.html (11,292 bytes)
- 95. Re: [TenTec] Eagle Mini-Din (?) connector (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 19:18:08 -0400
- Yes... follow Jim's advice using flux and tinning BOTH the pins and the cable ends, before mating them. That, alone, makes it easier to do any audio plug. Another easy trick, is to purchase a commerc
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00262.html (10,116 bytes)
- 96. Re: [TenTec] Eagle Mini-Din (?) connector (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 20:49:20 -0400
- Yes, there are a couple of good guys who make and sell cables on eBay, including one who does business under the style of "CW-Man" and another who uses the style "w7yen's amateur radio helpers" and "
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00264.html (9,077 bytes)
- 97. Re: [TenTec] F.S. Omni VI Option 3 + 961 P.S. (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 13:53:41 -0400
- I have FedEx do both - pack and ship. No problems ... yet. I would have the same company do both, if at all possible, so neither outfit could blame the other for any damage. I picture Fed Ex blaming
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00278.html (8,915 bytes)
- 98. Re: [TenTec] Oooo-PS (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 17:10:31 -0400
- Most likely, the culprit is Murphy. If it's your turn, and Murphy has you in his sights, it doesn't matter how you shipped! _________________________________________ Ain't dat da truf. Murphy lives w
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00291.html (8,277 bytes)
- 99. Re: [TenTec] Oooo-PS (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 17:27:02 -0400
- they use those awful packing peanuts, which fly all over hell when I open the box. There should be a special place in hell for the low life who invented them. ________________________________________
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00292.html (10,477 bytes)
- 100. Re: [TenTec] F.S. Omni VI Option 3 + 961 P.S. (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 17:54:41 -0400
- Too bad... our local FedEx store packages stuff and does a good job. You must live in a smaller market where they don't have a packaging depot/store (they bought up Kinko's Copy Centers, so they also
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-09/msg00293.html (8,881 bytes)
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