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  1. Captain Kilowatt

    Card in from Rwanda

    Most exotic DX have a QSL manager to look after all that. They send them their logs a few times a year and the manager does the work in his free time.
  2. Captain Kilowatt

    Unknown Torroid

    Typical HF range toroid. Good for 2-30 MHz and good for a few hundred watts. Typically used in HF baluns.
  3. Captain Kilowatt

    Check This Out .... Biggest Baddest Boi & $$$

    Probably not, but 3Kw would get the same results plus the added benefit of better RX.
  4. Captain Kilowatt

    Radio Shack HTX 10 Conversion

    IT DOES NOT WORK. THE HTX-10 HAS NEVER BEEN ABLE TO GO OUT OF BAND WITH A SIMPLE MOD.THE CHIP HAS DIFFERENT FIRMWARE PROGRAMMED INTO IT. THE HTX-100 HOWEVER WAS A DIFFERENT STORY. APPARENTLY SOME PEOPLE HAVE NEVER LEARNED THE MEANING OF THE WORD "NO" AND STILL INSIST IT IS POSSIBLE DESPITE THE...
  5. Captain Kilowatt

    11m frequency reference beacon?

    I wasn't talking about using a 10m beacon to align anything. Why would you? It is transmitter by homemade gear most of the time or sometimes a converted CB radio to operate on 10m.The VAST majority are NOT frequency locked any more than the tolerances the gear was made with. I was talking about...
  6. Captain Kilowatt

    What year and why did you get into the Radio Hobby?

    1977 for me. Mom and dad started going to CB dances with friends that were members of a local CB club. Dad bought a Midland 13-898B and I got hooked on DX.
  7. Captain Kilowatt

    11m frequency reference beacon?

    What??????? If you for some unknown reason want GPS precision for frequency control, you need something other than a CB radio. I have no idea what you are intending to do and listening to something on 10m and returning to 11m in no way will make you off frequency. If you want GPS timing to...
  8. Captain Kilowatt

    11m frequency reference beacon?

    With the way propagation comes in and out, I think two hours between transmissions is too long. There are LOTS of continuous beacons transmitting on the bottom of 10m. Why not just use those because if 10m is open, 11m will be.
  9. Captain Kilowatt

    Clarifier, Locked or Un-locked. What does this mean?

    To me, synchronized means that they track exactly. If the radio is a bit out of alignment that would not be the case, hence my preference for the old term "locked" or "unlocked".
  10. Captain Kilowatt

    Source of a good phasing cable?

    Use RG-11. It is the same size as RG-8 but is 75 ohms and has a solderable shield.
  11. Captain Kilowatt

    Source of a good phasing cable?

    RG-59 if you want the small stuff but I prefer RG-11. It is an RG-8 type cable, same size basically, but 75 ohms.
  12. Captain Kilowatt

    Source of a good phasing cable?

    Make your own. Easy peasy.
  13. Captain Kilowatt

    +5 -5 %

    Coaxial Dynamics elements are exact drop-in replacements for the more expensive Bird elements.
  14. Captain Kilowatt

    +5 -5 %

    The accuracy is based on the full scale reading. If you have a 100 watt slug the meter will read 100 watts at full scale however if the accuracy is +/- 5% then you can expect to see anything from 95 watts to 105 watts when hitting it with exactly 100 watts. If you put that same 100 watts thru a...
  15. Captain Kilowatt

    11 meter is very quiet?

    That would be a sextant.
  16. Captain Kilowatt

    anybody try a yaesu ft 3185rasp yet?

    It isn't just Yaesu. All the manufacturers took the cheap route. A simple chip costing pennies instead of a whole RF circuit costing dollars. It is a simple case of just because it can be done does not mean it should be done. Today's appliance operators have no clue about the difference, whereas...
  17. Captain Kilowatt

    anybody try a yaesu ft 3185rasp yet?

    There is a huge difference in performance in audio DSP and RF DSP. Using a DSP speaker may eliminate most of the noise but it can never compensate for poor signal to noise ratio like RF DSP can. With audio DSP the signal must be over the noise a certain amount to be recoverable. With RF DSP the...
  18. Captain Kilowatt

    Dx400 bilateral attenuator

    I bought a 10dB attenuator several years ago from Florida RF Labs on Ebay. I installed it on the input of a Larcan television amplifier module that was retuned for use on 6m. The idea was to make it idiot proof due to the amplifiers gain and expen$e. I can hit the amp with 100 watts and only 10...
  19. Captain Kilowatt

    Do not buy or request warranty service on DJI Drones

    Basically, you are being screwed because of the incompetence of the CBP.
  20. Captain Kilowatt

    Do not buy or request warranty service on DJI Drones

    How do they know it was forced labour simply because it was made in China? If being made in China is reason to claim it was made using forced labour, that should disqualify ALL goods made in China. Sounds like someone in Washington is trying to stop imports.......one way or another.