Recent content by Old Barney

When we installed a connector outside. First connection at the antenna two wraps of 3M 3/4 inch tape then Andrews sealer one wrap formed by hand then cover that with more 3M 2 inch tape first wrap loose (not streched) second wrap tight third 3M 3/4 inch layer loose. the last loose wrap will NOT...

I like the MINI1300 so far holds a charge couple hours while I was trying to tune an antenna. the manual is NOT written for this old fart without a magnifying glass. Outside use is better than the little one my friend brought over. It still reflects badly but with back to the sun and shading it...

The mini1300 will be here day after tomorrow. I should have the cables built by then.

I had a friend bring over his VNA analyzer. little thing very hard to see outside trying to tune an antenna. Yeh it was a sunny day and all we could see was our own face reflecting off the screen. If you shaded with one hand then you had to use your thumb and fiddle with menu. What we could...

I know this is an older thread but: I am in the process of getting ham, and cell service in a small Adirondack town with too many NIMBY'S from New York city and the dimwits from other states escaping the crime riddled cities. I anticipate resistance from people who want to be...

Mother Nature is un happy!! The story a forest ranger told me many years ago: Before we came to this country (long time ago). Mother would send down a lightning strike and start a fire. The deer, bear, birds, human Indians and anything that could leave the area. Indians would just...

You may have to pay a fee for the schematic. But if you are going to work on the unit the schematic will be useful to keep.

Go to Google.com insert Siltronix FS-300A it will bring up a bunch of links. I forgot which one it was but click on one and then the next You will find it.

Finally a fellow MAN who enjoys our GOD given vocal cords. Congratulations""

I just googled the meter. I found a write up on antique radio in the google list it is very informative. And there is schematics with calibration procedure. I would think from the schematic the transformer in and out could lead to a replacement

have rebuilt my hexbeam three times since 2019 I bought the DX engineering hub and purchased the fiberglass spreader's some place else. They rotted away due to the Floriduh sun twice. I now have new fiberglass spreaders and have used boat gelcoat stuff on three and have to coat three more and...

Go wireless! geta wireless key board and mouse from walmart for cheap. I got a set from a savealot store for under twenty bucks still working ok after two years. The brand was "home" something? two double A batteries in the keyboard and one in the mouse. Plug and play with wireless USB

After discharge from the Army. while at Spartan school in Tulsa Ok. I seen cars parked in the middle of intersections nobody around and the intersection polished in ice. I drove 4 blocks on the side walk (nobody out walking either) to get around the parked cars. I would get up in the morning...

From Piseco here. A long way from now. At 75 years old now in Florida. Some times I miss New York. Then some times I'm glad to be away from the state of politics and TAXES. Don't worry there will be snow again this old earth goes through cycles. As I remember a couple winters there it didn't...