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Ah, excellent! You're chasing the same kind of thing that has kept me up at night, sketching things out... Christman phasing... I can see where the switching/phasing will get squirrely with that kind of endeavor. What would have me scratching my head is the physical spacing. I guess...

Thanks Robb- that was the plan. We're on the same page! Rick

The old 635A is pretty flat for a dynamic, which is one of the reasons I've been looking that way. I used a '57 with a small mixer with my old TS-520 for a while and had it dialed in pretty well-- just got tired of having 3-4 pieces of gear and cables when it really wasn't all that much...

Agreed. I was really surprised to hear how close the 58 was to the SM-7 though! I'll just try different ones and see how they sound. I've heard too many guys on the air, both AM and ESSB who are in love with their audio chain and love to talk about it, but you can barely understand them...

Thanks Ratso. What I have in mind is 6-8 dB of compression. We'll see what it looks like on the scope and how it sounds on the air. If it just doesn't work out I'm sure some other use for it will pop up! Rick

Here's the way the VSWR shook out when the smoke cleared after 3 hours of snipping, measuring, soldering, measuring, snipping, cussing, soldering, measuring... The immediate reaction is to look at the curve of the beam when used with the director and think, "That's awful-- look at that...

Waverider, That's very interesting-- how are you configuring the feedlines? On the Super Scanner (and I just had a look at the schematic of the control box to make sure), nothing's being phased, but in the directional modes, the two elements that are not being driven at the moment have shorted...

You know, there are several ways remote relays could be used, and have been used over the years. I recall seeing an article from QST many years ago where someone had a 120 VAC relay at the feedpoint of something-- I don't think I'd do that! One thing I had considered (and may do it yet if it...

Thanks folks-- and you know Wavrider, I did have a 20m Moxon up for a while, on a rotator. The f/b was better as advertised, but for whatever reasons the yagi always showed better gain over the dipole than the Moxon, and they were mounted the exact same places. Never could figure that out and...

Thanks Robb. I did see one YouTube clip that was just a guy explaining the features, didn't get to hear it in action. Hey, I'd love to have an RE-20, but don't want to shell out the bucks for one of those for an amateur mic! Most of the condensers I have are small diameter for recording...

Bobtail? Sterba? I had a Bobtail array for 20m 30 years ago that I was able to use for exactly three days before the wooden fence that supported it was destroyed in a storm! All I can say about that one was I lived in an area with really high electrical noise (Texas City, TX, lots of...

You may remember my homebrew 20/10 homebrew yagi that met its untimely end in an ice storm: It was pretty clear that a push-up pole with a rotor and full size beam was not going to be a workable situation, despite the antenna weighing only 18 lbs. The cheap steel in one section of the mast...

Thanks guys. Yep, I have a cable/plug for the 13 pin jack on the Icom I can swipe from a PSK interface a built a while back (I never got on with that mode). I've been toying with the idea of building a breakout box for audio and whatever else I want to access from that jack anyway, so I may...

I just bought a DSP110 Compressor/Limiter/Noise gate off Ebay. I have plans for it and a handful of mics to experiment with on my IC-718. Anyone use one of these? How do you like it? Thanks, Rick

Nice work-- I really like quads, have built several of those and delta loops over the years. It does sound as though your Q-section is too long, but if you have a good match across the band I wouldn't worry about it. Rick

Congrats, Micheal! Thanks to tropical storm Lee, I have to repair mine now! Rick

Congrats, and welcome. Rick

Great memories there in that catalog. From about '71 to 1980, I had every page memorized. Rick

End fed half waves are fun to play with, and work well if you solve a couple of problems-- matching and grounding. I sure can understand getting around antenna restrictions, and one good thing about rolling your own is you can try different things without having to spend a bunch of money if...