i think i ate too much dinner........................the regen is a 35/51 with two 56s, not 37s for audio. arg. i just worked Danny, k7ss on 160 meters, so i am up and running sorry for the mistake,
i turned on the receiver and even with three tuned circuits between the antenna and the detector, loud signals would throw the det out of oscillation. good weekend for guitar practice mike w7dra ____
as what you would expect from an operator that uses an NC183 as his main station receiver, i have a piece of Plexiglass with five sets of ordinary wall switches mounted on it in a row; each pair swit
i just spent a half an hour thumbing through logs checking that Polish SWL SP3003LG verified my working VE5UF in the 2006 CQWW. he either heard me and him or me or him, can't tell, but close enough f
i had planned to write an article for PileUP! about my wpx effort, until i only worked two stations (NR6O being one, K7SS the other). i did hear four other stations but no luck in contacts. tx: 41/42
and then there was W7DRA/KH6 (me) running an HW16 off a 6th floor waikiki hotel room in the middle of town with an antenna being wire on a fishing pole covered with black electrical tape (this was a
last year for the stew perry i used a tube regen and an MOPA. this year will be a good year to improve my score mike w7dra ____________________________________________________________ Weight Loss Pro
since i started using a regen receiver and an MOPA, my chances have diminished considerably, but SOMEDAY, EVERYONE WILL BE SOMEWHERE ELSE AND I WILL BE THE LAST MAN STANDING so always get that log in
sorry CE1/K7CA, when you tried to receive my message, my signal drifted enough to be out of your pass band. low and behold I had the 833A cranked up so much that keying the final dropped the line vol
here is what i plan to do, i hope i have the correct procedure at present i have a 1/2 wave inverted L up 125 or so and over 125 or so, can't remember what exact dimensions are i plan to drop the far
being in the great nothewest, and also a past member of the keyman's club of japan, i can say there seems to be a lot less JA activity. i recently made a dxpitition to pacific beach (cliff overhangin
here is a way that anyone who wants to find JA statistics: go count the number of JA participants in the KCJ topband contest for the past years, the info is on the KCJ site as an example 2003 - 100 2
i don't know when it was but somewhere around your age, i saw technology advancing and decided i should stay at a particular year. i saw my first contest in 1953, so i decided to keep all my technolo
i tend to voltage feed my antennas, of course with a 5763 tamped down to 5 watts output RF in the shack has not been a problem. i have a new location to operate in centerville ohio where my daughter
one thing about using my contest station only a couple times a year, everything has to be checked and fixed.......... in running 5 watts output without modern instrumentation, i chose to measure what
not forgetting my 2010 CQWW 160 award (counter poise + 120 up 130 over) mike w7dra ____________________________________________________________ 53 Year Old Mom Looks 33 The Stunning Results of Her Wr
being radially impoverished, i have gravitated to high impedance feed antennas, the one at present is a tree mounted "120 up 130 over". i have installed three wall switches to be able to choose (one
when every contact is important as when you run 160m QRP the "N6RO approved method" is the best MY GOD!!! if N6RO approved it, why isn't every one doing it?? mike w7dra, who always sends "N6RO approv
I dont know what kind of an isolatuion transformer you guys are using, i come from a vintage view point where no ferrite or coax is ever used except to go from the transmitter final coil to the anten
very interesting, the FCP is a way to allow the real estate challenged (no place for a true ground radial system, or a long high vertical antenna) to get something that will do more than just warm wo