Recent content by BC Coyote

That's really sad news! I had the good fortune to QSO with him on several occasions. He was a fine operator and he will be greatly missed by many. May your radio room in the hereafter be filled with the all the finest gear JJ......

That's awful. My Antron 99 does over 2 MHz with less than 1.8:1 SWR and my delta loop does even better than that. If you need more bandwidth than 1 MHz spread then 5/8 wave GP is not the antenna to use!

I've been wondering the same thing! My rule of thumb for AM is that max swing PEP should be no more than 4X the deadkey. If you're running the 6666PRO barefoot you should be good with 15 to 20 watts deadkey. That will give you swing to about 80 watts. And if you're intending to run an amp...

AAAAAAARGH! I had forgotten about that P.O.S. I never owned one, but once made the mistake of offering to repair one for a friend. It didn't go well and I turned it into a brick for the unhappy friend. I had to pay all costs. And find friend another radio. Ugh.. One of the few times that...

Made contact with Darran a couple days ago on 610 USB and heard him again yesterday several times as well. Both on 555 and 610. Not sure how much longer he's active from there...... 56 Division Finland in here strong over the pole this afternoon. Been in and out on 555 for a couple hours now.

You're not kidding. Very little heard here on either 37 or 38. Even 6 & 28 are at a low level today. South America however is just booming in! I have several Brazilian stations having a QSO on 40 USB and splatter from a Spanish speaking station on the lower side. Went up to 555 USB and it's...

Pointless on 16 today. I checked at 11am PST and there's about a dozen AM conversations going on, the white-noise jammer is going, and worse of all the Splatterbox Kings on 6, 11, 15, 17 & 28 are doing their thing and making a big mess of the entire band. I'll pass.......

Nailed country #88 this afternoon! Darran 70DA/OC077 operating a special activation from American Samoa in the South Pacific. 27.610 USB Great conditions these last couple days.......wish I had more radio time!

I heard you 226! I was taking a break from work and radio just happened to be on 580 USB when you and 316 came on..... You were about an S 5 or 6. Couldn't hear 316 at all....not a peep...but that's just conditions. Phone rang and I had to go back to work for a bit so didn't get a chance to...

Fantastic conditions today! Worked Ireland on FM this morning with 120 watts, followed by a dozen or more stations all over the US plus Jamaica. Now there's lots of exotic stuff coming in from the Pacific ring..... Indonesia, Japan, Phillipines, Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Taiwan...

And my departed Father used to tell me that if nobody ever critiqued anything, the marketplace would be full of poorly designed and shoddily made goods. Criticism, especially constructive criticism, is part of the path to better quality goods.... Just my 2 cents worth.....

I'm trying to make sense of the upside down mic clip to the left of the radio LOL! Don't think it will be very effective at holding the mic in that configuration!

You definately need to replace that missing screw on the one transistor there because that transistor will run hotter than the other with one screw missing like that as it is no longer making a flush contact with the heatsink. I would replace the scorched resistors behind the power level...

Ouch. It looks like the whole thing has seen some serious heat.

I gave up on Ranger gear over 20 years ago now and I suspect that more and more other folks are giving up too. The outdated design, poor quality control, and drifty sideband issues just never seem to go away. I would say about 80% of the people I talk to on 11 meters these days are using either...