On 12/24/2013 09:52 AM, Tree wrote:
After about two years of no QSOs with Europe - the band started showing
signs of life a few nights ago. Over the past three days - I have made six
QSOs with Europe. Last night - some of the signals were pretty
encouraging. 9A5CW was getting copied by my K3's CW decoder occasionally.
S51V showed up with an amazing signal around 0600Z which I initially
thought had to be from North America.
Hopefully - this is a sign that conditions will be good for the Stew Perry
contest coming up this Saturday.
Here is that link for the rules again - www.kkn.net/stew
73 Tree N6TR/7
Boring, OR
Hi,
I sure hope so. When I set out to recap the power supplies in my DX-100
I waded into a huge *mess*. The power supplies are good now but other
portions of the ancient rig are not so good. I have a reasonable signal
at QRP levels (around 8 watts) from a pair of 2E26s where the 6146s used
to live. The plate supply has been rerouted to the low voltage power
supply and the negative bias for the 6146s NOT reduced for the 2E26s. I
have full break-in QSK now (a silver lining in a very dark cloud). If
the propagation faeries are playing on top band that will help me a lot!
I might have a different transmitter working on top band in two or three
weeks and then I'm pretty much stripping the DX-100 down for cleanup and
a rebuild with a big sack of new parts and wire. Band-aids and cold
patch just ain't doing any good any more.
73,
Bill KU8H
See you in the Stew (even if you don't see me)
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