It must have been annoying to Flex to spend so much money on software R&D only to have the fruits of their labor used to sell competitor's hardware. Jon
Will I be thrown off the reflector if I reveal that I kept my OMNI VII and my Paragon II and sold my Corsair because I didn't think it was so great? I mean it had a few great characteristics but seve
OCFD fed with open wire? I suppose everyone else here understands how that would work but I don't. Wouldn't the imbalance of the antenna turn the open wire into a radiator or did you have some kind o
I was missing some of the history. Rightly or wrongly, I've been calling an off center single wire fed T a Windom. I thought the next step was coax feed with a choke. I missed the balanced feed versi
The latest QST has an interesting EDZ beam. It has a discontinuous reflector, actually two reflectors, one for each half. William Alsup, N6XMW, modeled it with EZNEC. The model predicts 6 dBd. That i
Pretty good explanation, Wade. Go to AMfone.net to meet and talk with people who live and breathe AM and who might have a more nuanced view of things like PEP. The advice, though, is the same, divide
3CX800A7's are cheaper than I remember. When I blew up the ones in my Titan through grievous operator error, I ended up buying pulls rather than mortgage the house but I see a matched pair of Taylors
Corsair (I) $100 + shipping from SF Bay Area. SN 56 00512 This is a dark gray front panel radio PTO seems fine. Cosmetically very good. Everything seems to be working fine. 100W out. All bands operat
Some of us still haven't forgiven Eric Clapton for switching from Gibson to Fender. How could he do that? Jon '64 ES-335, '66 Barney Kessel, pre-fire Mossman Flint Hills, Hill Rodriquez, Gregory Byer
I'm pretty sure it's a classic huff and puff, nothing to do with temperature compensation. If I remember this correctly, they work by being essentially a frequency counter which when it sees the numb
I wouldn't be surprised if we're all debating iPhone vs Android for ham radio or anything in a few years. Those devices are full of oomph and are outselling computers by a mile. Jon
I'm thankful that they have stayed in this tough business making great radios for a rather small market comprised of cheap, critical buyers, us. I hope Ten-Tec and Alpha do well. I'll do my part by b
Cecil, I'd bet on the transistors, maybe not now but soon and for the rest of our lives. People seem to really like those expensive Italian amplifiers, the Expert 1KFA and now 2KFA. I notice that the