Recent content by whiteastro

Better start hiding the foot warmers ! LOL

I'm glad this article was posted as I was unaware of this situation. I might have to rethink my MO. The government is getting out of control. Maybe they should start working for us and quit giving our tax dollars to all the Rag-Bag countries that have been fighting since the beginning of time...

I've been getting sick watching all the pain and destruction my neighbors across the county have been going thru with all these different natural disasters lately. We must have peed off mother earth really bad. I hope she gives us a break this summer instead of cooking us alive !

To be honest my Star Duster is mounted to 25 foot of pipe even though another 5' doesn't make much difference. but there is other problems at my location with trees on other properties interfering with erecting more pipe. But the biggest problem for me is this stinking deep narrow valley I live...

None of my antenna steel antenna masts have been less than 20' of 1" black iron pipe painted because it is readily available. I wouldn't do 36' because it would require guy ropes or it would be bent and be a eye-sore. Just my personal preference so it is what it is and I'll work with what I...

There is much I guess I will never understand about DX. Texas is a major player around here for DXing but when I first got back into radio it seemed like Florida was the major player for me with DX. I did move my Star Duster about 30' from where it first started and changed from a Workman Star...

Yeah it was coming in around here, but I couldn't seem to make a contact. But these rugged hills covered with trees are covered with leaves now so I'm not expecting much. Tried a little shouting from the base station this morning with no luck either. Sometimes you eat the bear & sometimes the...

I agree and when the hot weather sets in I can come back in and finish some projects inside where the AC is running. And maybe next winter I can set my butt in the radio room instead of working ! LOL

Well if it's going to happen now is the best time for it to happen because I'm up to my butt in Spring Work. Was out in the garage getting my Kubota ready to introduce it to some Hard Work. No free Lunches around here ! LOL

Like I said I only run mine a little before I jumped up to the KL-503 P so I guess I always run mine in Hi power. But what difference does Hi & Lo power make because I haven't found that listed yet or I missed it somewhere? PS. AM never interested me because SSB is on my Bucket List ! LOL

If your KL-300 P is like mine there is no middle position on that Hi-Lo switch on the R/H side. Hi is SSB & Lo is AM. Unless they have changed it, if so maybe someone else will Chime In ! PS. My KL-300 P is Blue so don't know if that means anything. I have noticed other operators talking...

Thanks for trying but I haven't had the radio on much lately because of the lousy DX situation and been busy setting up a new to me re-conditioned Windows 10 computer system. I'm getting sick of Microsoft and will probably start to learn Linux. Microsoft and their Pop-ups are control freaks and...

I was just thinking that MFJ took over the Hy Gain Super Penetrator SPT-500 so there might end up being a shortage of them coming up soon. Better grab one while you can. just thinking if someone doesn't buy it out.

1-1.5 watt

I have one of those amps also because I wanted a little more power also. I used the same dead key as the KL-200 P & the KL-203-P and didn't see any adverse affects but didn't use it long enough to be a expert before Hunger struck again and jumped up to a KL-503 P. Hook it up and run it !