Hi all, I'll make a strong effort to get home by 9:45 tonight.. The 220 rig is warmed up and seems to work AOK.. Hope some of y'all can wait around that long bill, k1DY FN54JQ _______________________
Hi all, WELL, as advertised I did get on last night, at 9:40PM!!! I had the station set up and ready to go, so ran to the shack, logged into ON4KST, announced that I was QRV and worked TWO diehards!!
Hi Mike, Paul and all.. I'm pretty sure, in addition to Bernie, Andy, VE1ASJ, was on 220 from the Maritimes back in the day.. Can't think of anyone else. there were several on 432 of course.. Mike, I
Mike, Instead of continuing to search for the old bipolar module I think I'd try to "modernize" and rework your amp to use one of the modern MOSFET modules like the Motorola RA18H1213G. (The M57762 i
Hi all, Well welcome to winter in Maine. I have the same icing problem as Dave.. 2M,222,432 are useless and 6M has a 5:1 VSWR which pretty much shuts down my FT991.. (6M beam hears better off the bac
The M57762's will keep getting harder and harder to get. They were great in their day but are very old technology.. I know people have retrofitted the newer LDMOS modules for older bipolar units but
Ethan, the DEMI instruction manual for that transverter is online here it is for the "kit" version: vhflna doc (netsolhost.com)<http://01895fa.netsolhost.com/PDF/Manuals/222-28_677.PDF> This has all
Call: K1DY Class: Single Op HP QTH: FN54JQ Operating Time (hrs): 4 Summary: Band QSOs Mults -- 6: 4 2 2: 15 10 222: 10 8 432: 8 6 -- Total: 37 26 Total Score = 1,430 Comments: Hi all, I thought I'd g
I have occasionally gotten on at 10 but not recently.. There's kind of a law of diminishing returns that sets in around 9:30 I think, That said, I am definitely ON the band and if anyone needs FN54 j
Hi Paul and all, The cost of electricity went up BIG time this year but in Maine the 88% increase was only for the "supply" part of the bill. "Delivery" which is ~ half the bill, has stayed the same
Well, I had mentioned to WZ1V in passing I could get on at 10PM, which is the time I normally get home from my weekly music gig.. At about 10:05 I heard Ron calling CQ on 222.100 and quickly worked h
Don't know how many of you know Tom, ex-WA8WZG, now N7GP but he is featured on this video, recently rediscovered in a pile of old VHS tapes by Al Ward W5LUA.. ENJOY!!!!! https://youtu.be/6y_irqKUDDI<
I think it should be said at this point that the 2,220,432 transverter boards were designed by and were being produced by Steve, N2CEI, still in Frenchtown, NJ at that point. I guess we were doing so
Hi all, I actually got on last night around 10. Of course, I wasn't smart enough to mention this ahead of time.. Surprise!! No one answered my CQ's! I'll try to do it next Tuesday for those who want
Fred isn't sure this message got through.. so he asked me to repost.. bill ________________________________ From: Fred Stefanik <n1dpmfred@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 3:10 PM To: Bill
Hi all, I'll be on at the start tonight from FN54 in Maine. Will monitor ON4KST chat and plan to work mainly SSB and CW. I'll probably go to FT8 later in the evening and hang around as long as there
Call: K1DY Class: Single Op HP QTH: FN54JQ Operating Time (hrs): 3 Summary: Total: QSOs = 24 Mults = 15 Total Score = 360 Comments: That was a fun night! Conditions seemed pretty flat but around 8PM
woo hoo! Due to some unforseen circumstances, my music gig has been cancelled tonight.. SO... instead of making lots of money I'll be able to get on the radio and talk to a bunch of old geezers!! Yay
Call: K1DY Class: Single Op HP QTH: FN54JQ Operating Time (hrs): 2 Summary: Total: QSOs = 8 Mults = 7 Total Score = 56 Comments: Well, Wet, rainy and windy last night and conditions were pretty bad.