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That reminds me of another project. I still have to put that Larcan amplifier together into a working package. The server power supply for it works great. 50 volts at 60 amps. The amp itself works great and has had some experimental upgrades to the input and output sections to increase the...

I need to take my 64 foot Trylon T-500 down and convert it to a tilt over base. No small feat. The bottom section is 42 inches wide and total weight is just over 1000 pounds without anything on it. Add at least another 200 pounds for the mast and antennas.

Actually Gary, I haven't used that antenna for a number of years now but it had a great pattern. I could listen to a baby monitor on 49.830 MHz up the road at S9+20 on the front and it would drop to S2-3 on the rear corner. It has a really good pattern for rejecting the rejects.I hope to get it...

QRZ? Sorry OM but you are 3x4, 3x4 and down in the mud. Barely copy you. Say again please. :ROFLMAO:

That looks just like the first cell phone I had......a Motorola bag-phone it was called. It was a company phone and yes, it sure made life on the road easier. I carried a pager for years and being in a rural area we were a bit behind when it came to a roll-out of the cellular network. When I...

And that reason is mostly due to having a built-in camera. We have a "NO CELL PHONES ON THE PLANT FLOOR" policy for employees and a "NO CELL PHONES PERMITTED IN THE PLANT" policy for any visitors due to intellectual property protection at work.

Looks like you have it dialed in perfectly. I used a hairpin match on my 6m yagi as well. I used a halfway coaxial balun along with it and the match was similar to what you show. My configuration is six elements on a 17 foot boom but it an OWA design...... Optimal Wideband Array......so it just...

People all too often grossly underestimate the force of the wind as well as running water. I cannot count the number of times I just cringed when asked, "Is this OK to use to mount my antenna?" :eek::X3: I usually scrap the factory mounting plate and make my own. If it came with 1/4 inch...

It's not just the idiots on the radio we have to contend with, it is also the drone operator idiots as well. Water bomber damaged by drone over L.A.

Thanks for the update Jeff. I have no idea what part of the L.A. area Tim is in, but with the way things are at the moment it could be anywhere. The whole area looks bad.

I have always said that unless life is at stake, you better have your ducks in a row and a full bank account. Just because YOU think something is an emergency does not mean authorities will see it the same way.

I don't think the noise he was referring to was from his wife. :ROFLMAO:

We were hit with an intense geomagnetic storm. Auroras were seen as far south as Mexico. https://spaceweather.com/

I bet he scores real low on an IQ test and really high on the suicide watch list.

My problem is that I keep forgetting that other people do not treat things the way I do especially when it comes to ensuring NOTHING happens to it. Most people figure WTF a little scratch won't hurt anything. It will still perform fine. I figure that if I can own something for 20 years and it...

Many years ago I dabbled a bit with RTTY and SSTV and a bit of PSK but just to say I did it. I will ALWAYS resort to SSB as it is more personal. As for FT-8...........I want to talk to someone, not have my computer talk to someone else's computer.

Although I have not been on the air, I have been told there has been a huge shift to FT-8 on 6m and from looking at the DX clusters I believe it.

Actually, there are times I think it makes its own rules.

I don't use the mobile version whenever I can load a desktop version of a site. I find things much more user-friendly.

When I replaced the USB-C charge/data port on my tablet a couple of years ago, it was no soldering required. I got the new part off Amazon for $20. It was a bit tricky opening it up and getting too it to replace it but it was not that bad and FAAARR cheaper than replacing it. It was a $600...