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In 1962, when I upgraded from Novice to Conditional class (General taken by mail), I'd usually get up well before leaving for high school and see what was going on on 15 meter CW. Didn't have an AM or SSB transmitter and didn't want one; CW was fun. Then I'd cautiously move up to 10 meters and...

More often than not, this is the answer to adjacent channel/frequency interference.

If you have a carrier when you key the mike, you know the RF portion of the transmitter is likely okay. Learn Morse code and use it on CW!

Hate to have to be the cameraman inside the tank. You could lose a lenscap!

Almost looks as if it was sitting in a cemetery. And no, I'm not going to mention "dead key"....Oops!

Your Bird doesn't care WHAT is producing the RF being measured. As long as the slugs are for the proper frequency range and power level (and everything, including the slugs, is calibrated), the Bird will speak the truth, within ±5% or so.

Talk about "Slow Blow"!

I think that's Carol Burnett doing the Tarzan schtick...:whistle:

If you only have the one crystal for 3535 kHz, there's no use worrying about using a mike. Turn the transmitter on, connect a dummy load and a key and see if there's any output in CW mode.

I operated /MM on Kitty Hawk (CVA-63). The ham/MARS station was under the forward end of the angled deck; the port-most compartment on the ship. Right outside there was a catwalk that once served as access to a couple of verticals. The low-wings on the F-4s made relocating those antennas a...

What are you using to measure VSWR? Try disconnecting the antenna end of the coax and attaching a KNOWN GOOD dummy load that has the same impedance as the coax. What's wrong with a 1.2:1 VSWR?

Back in the 1960s, the "normal" home AC supply was specified as 117 volts.

"6 feet away"? Social distancing for radios...

Take out a couple of salmon and you'll have room for more bass...:whistle:

Military is great for TLAs. Three-Letter Acronyms.

If you've ever seen the movie "Divergent", wherein Chicago is where the "Non-Divergents" are imprisoned, you can see that array of towers in at least one scene. In the distance, it looks like a really serious fence. As I was pointing it out to my wife I heard voices in the audience: "There it...

If you have Google Earth, find Pripyat (it's where the ill-fated Chernobyl power station was/is located.) If you look about 5-1/2 miles south of Chernobyl, you'll see a straight line running about 45 degrees (with North at the top). This is the antenna system, or what remains of it, from the...

I'd check the manual and make sure it has "transceiver" spelled correctly.

"Cophasing" ... makes me laugh and cringe every time I see it. You're phasing two antennas, not cophasing.

Doesn't have to be a Dmm.