Recent content by guitar_199

To those with lots of experience who have stayed "active" through all the years......... When the solar cycles hit "rock bottom"........ does 11m do anything at all??? Ever???? Or is it "flat dead"!!!!!!!!!! I was just sitting here thinking about antenna topics and one of them is NVIS (near...

Thank you for that!!!!!!!!! I will give that area a good "eyeball" with my magnifying hood.....and maybe my phone camera (shoot the shot as closely as I can focus and then "pinch spread" it out...). Thanks again! Bob

Duly noted!!! Thanks for the reply! Bob

I found a repository years ago and pulled down everything I could. I just now went and looked... the only mention I see of a NW model is the Cobra 25 NW ST, and the same with WX. Did not have anything on any 29 NW model. Sorry.

I just updated an older posting I had made a month or so ago..... and would like to have updated the title to the posting to add that it had been updated... so that folks would have a positive clue that I had made an update. BUT... I could not find any path that would let me edit the original...

Okay, I've had other things going on and could not get back to this radio... and now that I have.... I am giving up for a little while until I "dream up" another path to go... which I am guessing will include a can of freeze spray!!!!!!! Here is the deal: I have now changed both D209 and D206...

Nomad, why on earth did they EVER use that particular kind of glue? Did they not know that it would corrode and even conduct as it aged? Just curious....

Nomad, this is such a strange subject to research ... as opinions vary WILDLY!!!!!! I have seen sources say that "it is simply age" and that electrolytic caps will dry and fail.... just sitting on a shelf. What are your thoughts on that? (Thanks!)

No sir. Not one little bit. Everything ABOVE Q207 stays solid. Only the power sources fed by Q207 fail. When they fail... the only thing that will bring them back is to power off for a minute or so. When you do this.... they come back on for about 45 seconds to a minute... then they fail...

The good news..... a 2N3906 worked just fine in place of the MPS9681T. The bad news... the radio still behaves the same was as it did...... Meaning that there SEEMS to be a thermal problem in this circuit that allows the circuit to work for about 2 to 2 1//2 minutes if the radio is stone...

I did just find that I DO have a 2N3906 available... and several have told me that this should do the job..... just to be mindful and get the pins right. I will likely stick that in and see what happens.....

I literally JUST learned this today and I am so sorry to hear it. JJ you are still being thought of around here! Thanks for the sharing of information and good company here on the forum and "out on the air". Rest easy.

I just searched and found the mention in a post on Jan 6th of this year. MAN I am sorry to hear of this news. I have a couple of copies of his great treatise on 858 based boards.... just to hold on to it. What awful news.

I was just rolling around looking at posts and saw an older post from him.... and I see that it was annotated with "Honorary Member Silent Key" When did THAT happen??????? Does anybody know????