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OK call me brave but since I am on a laptop with REAL virus protection I clicked on his link above. All good as far as I can see. I won't comment as to quality but will let others decide for themselves. All I will say is that I have no problem looking at his stuff which is stored on a cloud-drive.

I have never had a problem with my generator. I know the waveform looks pretty clean but honestly never really looked at it REAL close, mostly because I never had a problem. The brand is a Wallenstein, made in Ontario Canada. It uses an Italian made alternator unit driven by a 13 hp Honda engine...

To be completely honest, I wasn't even thinking about digital TV. I’m still stuck in an analog world. LOL You could be right about the higher dynamic range available. Something else to consider too is the knowledge........or lack thereof.....in today's broadcast techs. Back in my day, we did...

Yeah.....that's not exactly what they do nor is it the reason they do it. For YEARS commercials have seemed louder than program content due too higher compression levels. Compression can have the same peak volume level but higher average levels which is what makes the commercials sound louder...

Yeah I forgot the year they had the big burn but that is sure a big part of it. With the recent rains the entire area was pretty much saturated with water. That along with not much for vegetation to hold things in place is what lead to the slide.

They expected it to overflow possibly late yesterday or today but I haven't heard anything about it yet. Hopefully it will simply overflow as expected and gradually release pressure and headwaters. It is 2000 feet long and over 100 feet deep right in the river channel so it likely will not let...

By contrast I also have a really old.......25 years or so old..........Comet CA2x4SR dual band mobile antenna with the same fold-over base. I had it for YEARS before I even knew it had the fold-over feature. LOL I don't remember how many times I mounted/unmounted that antenna until one day...

I suppose but we know how well people actually listen. LOL I still see zero practical use for this except to stir up crap.

Useless for that unless you scan the channels after every call since they can hear you on every channel but you can only hear them on ONE channel.

Actually I had a really good quality 2m SuperGainer antenna from Comet or Diamond.....I forget which.....and it would do the same thing. Something about the wind pressure and vibrations would make it literally walk up out of the socket base until it would fall over at the hinge point. It was 60+...

Using a nine volt battery in that microphone is no problem if it fits OK. It will have very slightly more gain, probably not noticeable, but that is about it. I remember lots of guys swapping out to a 9V.

RF voltages need to be much higher than the normal applied plate voltage. We used to run 1 Kw AM transmitters with 2600 volts on the anode. RF voltage at the 50 ohm common point was around 225 volts however the rating of the tune capacitor in the transmitter itself as well as in the ATU was...

Just turned 61. Been licensed since 1990, however.

Amen to that. Yup......those amps were NEVER built with the RF sensing cct. They are a true amateur amp and had no such need whatsoever. The only RF sensed amps I have seen are the typical CB amp or some VHF/UHF amps. My 2m amp had the option of using RF sensing or straight radio control. When I...

It depends on the impedance. A series inductor will lower the resonant frequency as well as make the bandwidth narrower. A series capacitor will electrically shorten the antenna and make it resonant higher in frequency. You really need both an inductor and a capacitor because simply adding one...

You understand that correctly. A LPF does absolutely nothing for in-band splatter.

It is rated at 1KW INPUT. It uses four 811A tubes so you have to be careful you do not exceed their ratings. It is clean if not over driven. As for power out, consider it almost as good as the Ameritron AL-811A. I say "almost" because the Ameritron has a better power supply in it. You should see...

I don't diss CBers in general but listen to a lot of the crap on the band and you can see why someone would. FWIW I started on 11m, mostly DXing, always on SSB and pretty much on the Freeband. It was great.......waaaaay back then.I am going by my own experience, which is all anyone can do, when...

Oh I have used the reviews there too in the past to get a general idea of any faults that may be an issue but as far as general use, most reviews are like travel reviews.........all over the place. Some think it is the greatest thing on earth, while others detest their very existence and wonder...

Take the reviews on eHam.net with a grain of salt. LOL