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222DBFL and others, I'm in a temporary situation at this time. I'm in the process of selling my home. That means that I have a minimal antenna system (a vertical coaxial dipole hung in a tree) and don't wish to put up aluminum that I'll only have to take down later (and also won't look good...

Has anyone on the forum used the RCI-2950DX in the cw mode? I realize that the radio has that mode thrown in as an afterthought, but I am using it on cw. On the positive side, I notice that there was an attempt by the designers to narrow the bandpass of the receiver in that mode. You can hear...

Dave and Sonoma, I just like to have my equipment doing the best it can do within reason. Just for the sake of argument, let's say that the radio increased from 25w p.e.p to 35 p.e.p. just from a simple swap of devices. That's something I would do. I already have the mosfets, so the...

Perhaps more power output.

359, Believe me, I hear ya, and understand where you're coming from. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, as they say. But I also hope to hear from others who have done the swap, then make a final decision. Thanks for the advice.

I have a RCI-2950DX with transistor driver and finals (2SC1969's). I also have 3 mosfet IRF520's on hand that I could swap in place of the transistors. Besides the "negative" of the labor involved in the swapout, is there anything to be gained by the swap? Will the 'fets give more watts out...

Wishing to get back into cw again, I looked on the 'net to see what was available for a key. I was disappointed to see that anything I wished to have cost a heck of a lot of money. Sure, I saw some wonderful craftsmanship, but I couldn't justify spending so much on just a key. Anything in my...

I like the breadboard look. :-) I've done a number of projects with the boards. O.K. on your camping tuner. Yes, the L-match is pretty versatile. With the ground rod, were you looking to work the lower HF bands? Just curious. Isn't it nice to enjoy the relatively low noise level on receive...

I thought the members of this forum would like to see a tuner I built to take advantage of the longwave capabilities of my receiver. I'm using this tuner with a Yaesu FRG-100. The tuner interfaces with an 11 meter band coaxial vertical dipole. The tuner operates as a Hi-Q series resonant...

Has anyone on the forum used the RCI-2950DX in the cw mode? I realize that the radio has that mode thrown in as an afterthought, but I am using it on cw. On the positive side, I notice that there was an attempt by the designers to narrow the bandpass of the receiver in that mode. You can...

I gave up on "simple" keying methods when it came to operating CW. I had to have a keyer with memory because it is just too exhausting to repeat the same info every QSO. I purchased a Logikey kit, and am happy with it. I don't discourage your attempts at designing and constructing, of course...

This simple tapped L match works well for me. The input from the radio is at the coil end, the output to the antenna is alongside the capacitor. I made a coaxial vertical dipole, cut for 11 meters, fed with 50 ohm RG-213. The antenna doesn't present a 1.1 swr match, so I built the tuner to...