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Can't help but think those radios are staring at me. And I'd place the ergos right up (down?) there with the TS-2000. Might be a great package but damn...who thought the idea of a half-melted radio would be appealing?

Thread bump. I was going to start another one on this series but found your post. Had a set (FR-101D/FL-101, FR-101S/FT-201) around 2005-2007. Sold them to a ham in Indiana. Next set I acquired piece by piece starting in 2015 and continuing to last year. Included are the FL-101 w/ speech...

1970 or 71. An uncle gave me a book - "Using Electronics" - which is sitting on a bookshelf next to me as I type this. That was the initial spark plug. Finding a discarded AM transistor radio was the next. I hooked it up to an improvised antenna on my front porch and began prowling the bands...

Right up until the Pd figure is exceeded and they don't. Spec'ing a device with little or no headroom is a sure-fire way to see this happen in a PA strip which lacks active protection. On the flip side: CPI incorporated power-limiting circuitry but also used devices which were rated very...

On most of the better ones. I've had to replace finals on a number of them which didn't incorporate it. Same on a lot of the early solid state, 100w PA ham rigs. HW/SB-104 and TS-180S are two which readily come to mind.

Something I've always thought about was to get a Mk IVA transmitter and run it as twins with one of my shack receivers. JRC NRD-515, 535D or a Kenwood R-820 are at the top of that list. Pie in the sky dream: If JRC would have marketed a Class D AM/SSB transmitter along the lines of their...

Perhaps, Stranger in a Strange Land. Looks like a forum that I invested a couple decades of my time into maintaining and moderating is going by the wayside. Kop knows which site, and some other members here may have also been members there. The one reason I stuck with it so long was its...

In an ideal design they'll do both. The FL-7000 in my main shack is one example. There's a rear-panel switch which allows use with a high(er) or low(er) output transceiver, all the while maintaining proper load impedance and input linearity. Of course, this costs money.

This is why ZombieMax was invented and marketed. In Minecraft, of course.

We have work-provided Win11 laptops, and I also use employer-provided Linux installations on both their (bare metal) systems and my own (hypervisor) setups. A couple Win10/11 laptops and tablets scattered around the house in case I have to run native code which won't run well in WINE. But...

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...