John has not said yet what the goal is for his antenna so we are all just speculating a bit. It makes a HUGE difference whether you are trying to have an antenna which is easy to deploy and work all
Rick, You found it. And yes, I do understand that it will be barely functional at 60 M. It does give me 10, 15, and 20 M so that would be nice break in the driving. The antenna only needs the coil fo
John, Another idea for securing radials is, instead of using nails, simply attach 4oz or 5oz lead sinkers to the ends of the radials (from the fishing supplies store). That is enough weight to hold t
Rick, Thanks for the suggestion to use fishing weights to terminate the radials. It sounds safer as long as you don't chew the weights. I have an opportunity to make the trip this year. It is turning
John, for CW, just 20w is enough to work the world. I worked off of motorcycle batteries for about 18 years. Sounds funny. I worked portable using my motorcycles' battery for about 18 years. Most of
Oh... Now I see the problem. You have backwards... John... You don't take a radio TO the TT hamfest... You bring one home FROM the TT hamfest. Happy trails. PS -- don't try to bundle too many the rad
My digital model Argosy has a switch to turn off the display and possibly the whole counter circuitry. That switch has a set of unused contacts that can be used to switch off the meter lamp when the
Mike, It would be interesting to know: 1) how much current the digital Argosy draws in its default condition, and 2) how little it draws with as much switched off as possible, but still able to recei
Heck... at that rate, you could power the receiver with one of those hand-crank flashlight dynamo chargers . . . but you would likely have to really crank it while transmitting. . . Probably inconven
I've got an ex-(British) Army generator like that. Hard work. You need a lowly private to do the cranking! Me too - still drinking my first espresso of the morning... I'm Ten-Tec in the shack, ex-Arm
JAMES, YOU'RE A GENIUS! Now if we can only get one of our Engineers here to figure out a way to convert the energy from pounding a code key, into electricity, we will have (virtually) perpetual energ
I use Espresso Power, the way Stan does... Lavazza Qualita Oro or Dallmayr Crema D'Oro whole beans, freshly ground, 100% Arabica, never forced or bullied using Robusta beans ... ;-) Say... seriously.
I don't have a digital Argosy and have never even seen one. Early digital rigs had both an analog scale (on the knob) and a digital readout. Of course the analog scale could only read a limited porti
Lavazza espresso here too... My army hf set (UK/PRC320) has no display, the frequency is set to 100Hz via rotary stitches. Nice, well liked set. Typically rugged, but heavy - particularly If I'm carr
My Argosy station is packed away so I cannot help you with measurements, sorry. I'm sure someone can measure for you, though. You may be able to get a government grant to install a windmill to run yo
Ahh...My wife had always accused me of being backwards, Do you think that is what she meant? They mention a flea market. One never knows what can be found in that environment. I figure an Argosy and