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  1. Captain Kilowatt

    EZNEC help please

    QRZ? Sorry OM but you are 3x4, 3x4 and down in the mud. Barely copy you. Say again please. :ROFLMAO:
  2. Captain Kilowatt

    Presidents " new" private channels.

    That looks just like the first cell phone I had......a Motorola bag-phone it was called. It was a company phone and yes, it sure made life on the road easier. I carried a pager for years and being in a rural area we were a bit behind when it came to a roll-out of the cellular network. When I...
  3. Captain Kilowatt

    Presidents " new" private channels.

    And that reason is mostly due to having a built-in camera. We have a "NO CELL PHONES ON THE PLANT FLOOR" policy for employees and a "NO CELL PHONES PERMITTED IN THE PLANT" policy for any visitors due to intellectual property protection at work.
  4. Captain Kilowatt

    EZNEC help please

    Looks like you have it dialed in perfectly. I used a hairpin match on my 6m yagi as well. I used a halfway coaxial balun along with it and the match was similar to what you show. My configuration is six elements on a 17 foot boom but it an OWA design...... Optimal Wideband Array......so it just...
  5. Captain Kilowatt

    Using conduit hangers as vent pipe antenna mounts: warning!

    People all too often grossly underestimate the force of the wind as well as running water. I cannot count the number of times I just cringed when asked, "Is this OK to use to mount my antenna?" :eek::X3: I usually scrap the factory mounting plate and make my own. If it came with 1/4 inch...
  6. Captain Kilowatt

    What you think is an emergency may not.....

    It's not just the idiots on the radio we have to contend with, it is also the drone operator idiots as well. Water bomber damaged by drone over L.A.
  7. Captain Kilowatt

    Update on Tim in So Cal

    Thanks for the update Jeff. I have no idea what part of the L.A. area Tim is in, but with the way things are at the moment it could be anywhere. The whole area looks bad.
  8. Captain Kilowatt

    What you think is an emergency may not.....

    I have always said that unless life is at stake, you better have your ducks in a row and a full bank account. Just because YOU think something is an emergency does not mean authorities will see it the same way.
  9. Captain Kilowatt

    Noise Blankers that actually Work?

    I don't think the noise he was referring to was from his wife. :ROFLMAO:
  10. Captain Kilowatt

    11 meter is very quiet?

    We were hit with an intense geomagnetic storm. Auroras were seen as far south as Mexico. https://spaceweather.com/
  11. Captain Kilowatt

    Sharing some pictures

    I bet he scores real low on an IQ test and really high on the suicide watch list.
  12. Captain Kilowatt

    Was gifted well month ago

    My problem is that I keep forgetting that other people do not treat things the way I do especially when it comes to ensuring NOTHING happens to it. Most people figure WTF a little scratch won't hurt anything. It will still perform fine. I figure that if I can own something for 20 years and it...
  13. Captain Kilowatt

    Questions for 6m veterans

    Many years ago I dabbled a bit with RTTY and SSTV and a bit of PSK but just to say I did it. I will ALWAYS resort to SSB as it is more personal. As for FT-8...........I want to talk to someone, not have my computer talk to someone else's computer.
  14. Captain Kilowatt

    Questions for 6m veterans

    Although I have not been on the air, I have been told there has been a huge shift to FT-8 on 6m and from looking at the DX clusters I believe it.
  15. Captain Kilowatt

    Questions for 6m veterans

    Actually, there are times I think it makes its own rules.
  16. Captain Kilowatt

    The moble version of this site sucks

    I don't use the mobile version whenever I can load a desktop version of a site. I find things much more user-friendly.
  17. Captain Kilowatt

    Android Tablet USB-C Jack Question

    When I replaced the USB-C charge/data port on my tablet a couple of years ago, it was no soldering required. I got the new part off Amazon for $20. It was a bit tricky opening it up and getting too it to replace it but it was not that bad and FAAARR cheaper than replacing it. It was a $600...
  18. Captain Kilowatt

    Ham Radio Question

    Seriously? I have worked stations all over the world in a single day using SSB only. It isn't hard. None of that FT8 crap for me.
  19. Captain Kilowatt

    Bob Dylan's mic

    I have an RCA 44B microphone that is still in pretty decent condition considering its age. It was a studio microphone used in the very early days of the broadcasting company I used to work for. The ribbon is still in decent condition and the microphone still works. From some of the recent ads I...
  20. Captain Kilowatt

    Audio Plug Help

    tshows......You gave him info on an adapter. He asked about a simple plug. Whiteastro what you want is simply a 1/8 inch mono plug. They are pretty much the standard audio plug. The other standard is a 1/4 inch mono plug.