Another good book with minimal math that hams could benefit by reading is "Grounding and Shielding Techniques in Instrumentation" by Ralph Morrison. He has many points that make you think. His work a
I just heard a talk, post Dayton, by one of the ARRL vice Directors. ARRL is hopeful for this merger to work to the benefit of hams, and for CQ to emerge from its restructuring as a viable magazine.
Good points on Broadband Hamnet as a new ham product, but TT could start with offering the entry level lower cost routers, as a retail source, and then make their money in the turn key offering of ev
Eric and the group, the forerunner of ARES started back in the 30's when severe flooding hit the NE. There were various floods like the the large flood in PA where hams helped with radio. (It was WW
Actually Broadband Ham Net has nothing to do with the symbol rate change that is proposed by FCC and was backed by ARRL. ARRL was trying to do away with artificial baud rate limits which make packet
The high voltage insulation was Glyptol, and was in a little bottle from General Cement Co. now GC products I think. You could also check at the home centers for the stuff they sell to dip plier hand
I take many trade magazines in electronics and manufacturing. This year there has been a theme of the renovation and renewal of American manufacturing. Building "stuff" is coming back on shore. A pri
While not coming from this list directly, there was a query on the Eagle Digest about mobile mounting of an Eagle. It may be of general interest to discuss this. Computer mobile mounts for a laptop i
Well actually, the typical Army MARS post station, even the one for a whole Army, such as Fourth Army at Ft. Sam Houston, was heavily dependent on how good the Director was at getting funding from th
Based on an article on loaded antennas in the latest QEX magazine from ARRL, I would say a magnetic loop, if larger than 0.1 wavelength diameter, might have either the same signal as a loaded dipole,
Rick, Thanks for augmenting my post with some important caveats. YES!, you have to have a room sized to not have the indoor loop too close to the walls and possible conductors. I was testing a loop m
Excellent advise from Ken Brown!! Both to fix it yourself and learn, or keep the rig and have Ten Tec go thorough it. Many things can fail in shipping a rig back from any manufacturer. It could be as
ARRL HQ received a vintage restored station from the rock band member of the Eagles, who is a ham and Bob Heil, who used to do sound for them. This was prominently showcased in "QST" some years back.
Joe Walsh of the Eagles was whom I was thinking of. I think the photos in QST had both Joe and Bob Heil making the presentation at delivery. Stuart K5KVH
What radios can be fixed depends on the solid state devices used therein. Or, if other unique parts such as front dial scales, plastic or composite gears, or such are used that are no longer made. An
Most likely the "rubber" in the headphones that went gummy was a Urethane product. A known and widely found failure of Urethane is to take up humidity, even office humidity, and fail in a sticky gumm