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  1. Uncle Ronnie 336

    Bubba-Tech Parabolic Dish Antenna

    i would make a fullwave loop and a director myself if it was a huge dish.
  2. Uncle Ronnie 336

    Please explain how the Ch 9 / Ch 19 switch operates?

    i like to use the PA switch for stingers or rfx units because it goes from "public address" to "power amp"
  3. Uncle Ronnie 336

    Please explain how the Ch 9 / Ch 19 switch operates?

    sounds like the perfect easy conversion for something like an echo mod or a diode-switched channel kit oscillator
  4. Uncle Ronnie 336

    Please explain how the Ch 9 / Ch 19 switch operates?

    i like repurposing them for other mods myself
  5. Uncle Ronnie 336

    i think i just bricked a 29gtl

    ok i got tied up with other things like shoveling snow. SO ANYWAYS: ALWAYS use mica insulators on TO-220 transistors. i threw a cheap rubber insulator behind the NPC-RC darlington bolted to the case, jabberjawed for hours, and it apparently failed so im just gonna swap the 4003 diode to be...
  6. Uncle Ronnie 336

    i think i just bricked a 29gtl

    i just put a partspigged one in. still getting something pulling from it so now for my next trick, gonna change out all the parts connected to it.
  7. Uncle Ronnie 336

    i think i just bricked a 29gtl

    looking at the schematic, i got more questions now. theoretically if i was in PA mode i wouldve shot that voltage throught the transformer on the primary, but i dont think i was in pa mode. so maybe the secondary sh1t the bed just because....idk it felt like it?
  8. Uncle Ronnie 336

    i think i just bricked a 29gtl

    yea, the rfx is fine. not really looking forward to that labor or for the recap, mods, etc i already did to go into the trash. such a waste of time. im not looking to throw the rfx on a junker either, the rig really looks good, and its an older sidemic. also, the serial number tag on this got...
  9. Uncle Ronnie 336

    i think i just bricked a 29gtl

    ffffff. so i just put a new choke, power connector etc on my 29, extensive work incl a rfx has already been done. goofed up and there was a solder bridge, from the pad that recieves the power from the harness to the positive pin of the PA jack. now the modulation transformer gets hot and smokes...
  10. Uncle Ronnie 336

    Comment by 'Uncle Ronnie 336' in media '1gtl140meter.jpg'

    yea, just make sure its the right one, a cobra 29 meter has SWR readings, a cobra 25 meter just has pwr and signal
  11. 140gtl restoration

    140gtl restoration

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    1gtl140.jpg

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    1gtl140meter.jpg

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    1gtl140vht.jpg

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    1gtl140polish.jpg

  16. Uncle Ronnie 336

    Trc 465

    same internals as a pc-122. pretty good rigs
  17. Uncle Ronnie 336

    Full wave antennas for CB

    i used a double zepp-style vertical and it worked pretty good. but making each leg 5/8~ and shortening the ladder feed to find the 50ohm point definetly worked better for a big ol broadside gain lobe
  18. Uncle Ronnie 336

    Full wave antennas for CB

    check out the extended double zepp. near-lossless balanced feed matching, 1.25 length total, big broadside gain. if you want to match a full wave, you need a quarter wave piece of ladderline, which makes a 50ohm load, and then a 1:1/dirty coax choke
  19. Uncle Ronnie 336

    js8call on 27.245

    just got into messing with this. i had to build a vox-ptt on perfboard which involves a preamp. its pretty neat, but i see more europeans in the early AM hours than anything. its pretty dead in the evening when i come home from work. anyone on here mess with this?
  20. Uncle Ronnie 336

    RCI 99N2 - 300 Watts?

    if im not mistaken the n2 is a pair of the ekl9530s, and the few duallys i've built with them top out around maybe 200 with 30 in PEP. the one time i saw 300 was when i make a single 9530 driver and dumped 80 watts into it (do not recommend)