Recent content by GlocknSpiel

11M was, is and ever shall be "no man's land", pertaining to the overall FCC band allocations. Being the "wild West" of the RF spectrum, ANYBODY can key up. At any time. And the FCC won't ever affect that. I never once told my kids, "there are no such thing as monsters", or "there's no monster...

Progress is slowing down as Summer sets in and I'm overdue for an update. Even though there IS a/c , it's still too hot out there, so I really haven't done much this entire month. Anyhow; I got the input tuner installed, and it works great! The soft-start module is in-place, and the discharge...

My father was heavily-involved in REACT when I was a little sprout. At age 10 ~13, I used to 'man' Dad's base station in Hialeah, FL with the beam pointed WNW on weekends, while he patrolled RT#27 from Hialeah out to "Yehaw Junction", or "20-Mile Bend", (depending upon radio conditions). I had...

The PL-259 is the standard, or most commonly used connector found for CB/ham gear.

I've never seen one of those before, but just wanted to say, that's one of the "prettiest" amps I've ever seen! "Aesthetics alone", that's a keeper! Kind of like the Palomar 300A series. Right purdy!

Yep.... He's on Super Bowl as soon as conditions open up.

I would just build it, test it, and see what difference I needed to make up to get the input impedance to 50 ohms. I predict, it WILL be an issue, but an easy one to address, once it is a known value.

I think it's plenty sexy. I personally feel the Turner+3 is a better mic than anything else. Just personal preference, I know --- But D-104's are just difficult to actually use, even tho they sound just as good as the Turner.

Your thinking isn't skewed at all. But there will be an issue dis-similar metals at the turnbuckle's connection point to the wire. That, and it's hardly worth the hassle in the end. I would simply use the thickest wire you can get. The thicker, the more broad-banded the final antenna will be...

Git er done!

RF is AC current at a spec'd frequency and power level. Adding a diode in-series will rectify that AC, turning it into DC. What you'll hear on the RX end would sound more like a machine gun, rather than anything intelligible. But diodes ARE essential and used to isolate the signal for sampling it.

Unfortunately, your amp was never biased for SSB. Sure, it has a capacitor that delays relay drop to RX so it can be used on SSB without the relay 'chattering', along with a switch to put that cap into/out of play --- but it's always gonna sound like crap to everyone's RX. And nothing practical...

RFparts.com has the 2sc2166c, but not the 2312.

I know there were other bench techs that used the same 'techniques' when working on radios, but that sure looks like something that was on my bench back in the day! The 'checked component' and alignment marks, as well as the re-waxed tank coils was something that was inside every rig that left...

Very cool--- Box n all, too! Pristine!