Recent content by Night Stalker10

Wow, I feel sorry for you and the other kids who learned morse code under this navy guy. He made it a hundred times harder than it is. I learned code by listening to dits and dahs on a cassette tape. The worst thing about learning it that way, was my brain couldn't transfer the characters to...

By using a dummy load, you can test the radios power output. If you transmit 50 watts into the dummy load and the power remains steady, then you know the radio is okay. You need to be careful using the dx10 radio on digital modes. I have a friend who has had to get his dx10 fixed twice now in...

Ah yes, I get it now. That's where a radio with a quiet noise floor like the Madison really helps, plus a good antenna . Sometimes my brain is slow to figure things out these days, ha. Thanks again.

Can you explain what you mean by " with just audio no carrier"? I assume your referring to SSB, but not sure. Thanks.

I agree with you on the price. I've looked into those DDS encoders, and they cost more than what my radios are worth. I think they are the coolest mod you could do to an old radio today. Of course part of that price is the extra channels feature the module provides. I wish someone would offer...

Hava, it wouldn't hurt to check the ground wire on the counter. I believe with this radio, the ground wire needs to be attached to PCB ground, and not the chassis ground. Seems like that ground wire can cause the frequency counter to hop around like you mentioned.

I believe both microphones are the same. Here is a link from cb tricks for the super sidekick. https://cbtricks.org/mic_manuals/turner/turner_super_sidekick_om.pdf Move the bottom switch to electronic for the more modern radios.

I also have the Turner plus 3 base mic. It's also another favorite for radio enthusiast, because of its clear sound. I replaced the capacitors in this mic too. Both the SSK and the plus 3 use the same caps. They use 3 - 5uf 35v, 1 - 15uf 25v, and 1 - 25uf 15v capacitors. I can't remember but...

In 1976 I bought the SSK microphone and used it with a Cobra cam 89. It sounded great. Later in 1979 I bought a President Madison and of course the SSK sounded great with the Madison. The SSK looked like it was made for the Madison because of its black body and silver mic element top it had. I...

Sometimes you have no choice but to let the capacitor show a little leg (ahem), on the components side. The reason is because the newer caps today, are sometimes smaller in diameter than the caps that the 40 year old PCB were designed for. As was mentioned earlier. When I run across this...

There are two pieces of advice I could give you. When you get ready to replace the electrolytic caps, take a black marker (or any color) and put a mark or dot on the top of the cap towards the front of the cap that's facing towards the front of the radio. Do this to every cap before you start to...

I really like CQRLog, I guess you could say it's the HRD of Linux. I also use two other logging programs called Xlog and Qlog as backups. After I upload my contacts from CQRLog, I export my ADIF log to Xlog and Qlog. If something happens to CQRLog, I can re-install it, then import my last ADIF...

Over the years I've tried running amateur radio programs like HRD on Linux. It was hit and miss, actually mostly miss. Neither Wine or Bottles could make these windows programs work. But today that doesn't matter to me because a lot of the ham programs have been updated to work on Linux. I...

Just FYI - here is the way I adjust the red antenna warning light on the Cobra 29 classic radios per Cobra's technical bulletin. "The Cobra TSB says to key microphone and adjust VR6 until lite turns off with out coax connected, Once the lite goes off, turn VR6 the opposite direction until the...

I get what you are saying. I would recommend you try a Linux distro called Zoren OS. It was created for people who are used to Windows, but aren't happy with that OS. Zoren looks and acts like Windows even though its Linux. The cool thing about Linux is that you can create a bootable thumb...