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Anyone run a Whois query on the domains and find out where they're registered - and to who?

As long as we're discussing shack building and upgrades: Just got the last of the Rig Runners and PwrGates fastened to the back panels of the new operating desk, and battery backup cables built for the first two PwrGates I installed. Position 1 has an 8012 fed by an RS-50A. It feeds two PG40S...

This is why I keep a station monitor (Kenwood SM-220, Yaesu YO-101/901, Heathkit SB-614) inline....or have a service cart w/ a Tek 7603 mainframe available to roll around the shack to various spots. Can throw a spectrum analyzer plugin or vertical amp/timebase combo in and look at transmitted...

Allow me to pick your brain a bit on the RAY-152: When its LCD backlight is active on either High or Low intensity, a tone is being injected into the Mic Amp...and is of sufficient amplitude to produce 1/4 to 1/2w output power as indicated by an external wattmeter. Very noticeable to the...

Pace/Royce did this as did Cobra/Uniden. I'm sure there were others. In the Marine HF SSB realm, JRC was a big player. Raytheon rebadged at least one of their models and sold it as their own. I have two of them: One was a lab rat and is in excellent shape. The other came off the F/V Fundy...

I got into CB right at the peak of the boom. Not because it was faddish per se, but because I'd been into every other area of radiocommunication up til that point and it seemed a natural tool to add to my toolbox. Became acquainted with a lot of the regional operators. There were several...

Thread bump. I have two of these in my shack. They're designed to be "floaters". That is, pair them with whichever rigs I'm using at the moment. I just move them from spot to spot in the lineup and connect them to the transceivers. As far as a sense antenna: Noise is vertically polarized. I...

I have a number of Drake 7 line transceivers/receivers that are going to get DDS VFO conversions. Had planned for this very thing using what's called a shoulder bearing. Why manufacturers don't incorporate simple reliability improvements like this into their products is a mystery. Oh wait; it's...

Airwave control exists for the purpose of ensuring no interference (intentional or coincidental) is incurred by licensed users of a given radio service. With regards to the Class D allocation and spectrum surrounding it: The modern day FCC operates on a complaint driven basis. If you're a big...

Interesting take. I can say that MURS and GMRS has become more popular in my area but there are still a number of CB channels in use. None in my immediate AO but given where I'm situated I can hear there and everywhere, and probably 6 distinct AM channels see somewhat frequent activity. As far...

One of my friends from another forum knows Anthony personally and relates that he goes out of his way to make sure he's not causing problems with others - either fellow radio operators or the general public. That type of attitude pays off.

One wonders how long the shenanigans raged before the FCC was galvanized to action. Or what the final straw was. In cases around this area, idiots jam and act the fool for years without a hint of attention. Then there's the crowd which turns Ch38 unusable as long as skip's up. And the...

If an RF signal generator is available I'd inject a test signal right before the 1st mixer then work backwards towards the antenna connector. If that inductor is bad, wouldn't be the first time for this symptom. L41 in the TS-530/830 series Kenwood hybrids and a couple of them used in the Tempo...

Look for a dual female RJ45 breakout box. Hook a straight-though cable to either side then jumper the crossovers via the connector blocks.

I too had an early 2950. A "tradio", passed around from owner to owner. Once I got the previous owners out of the thing it was a good rig. A buddy of mine had to have it more than me so he offered some things in trade. One of which was a Nato. Galaxy used to advertise in the radio mags way...

It was an adventure on Usenet and several other radio related sites I'm familiar with. A couple others jumped on that bandwagon as well. Textbook example of the term "overcompensation".

As a user of all radio services/allocations to which I have legal access, I'll say this: If I can't hear you splatter into or don't find you operating illegally on an amateur band, I simply don't care. If you're operating on another (non amateur) service that you aren't licensed for, that's...

One of my progressive presses paid for itself inside of two years with just one caliber I shoot. Wish my ROI was that good on radio equipment. :p

I see you play the one-armed bandit too...:ROFLMAO:

Bob, A 10x probe should attenuate whatever you apply to it by 10 times. In other words, if you set the scope's vertical deflection to 1V/div with that probe attached it will take 10v to deflect an entire division. What is the scope's maximum vertical deflection setting? I'm thinking...