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I just passed my mine (tech) about an hour ago
I used three different practice test sites but I like this one the best
https://hamradioprep.com/free-ham-radio-practice-tests/
I liked how they had a brief summary and comments after each question so that was awesome
Speaking of awesome wow...
Hey I really appreciate everyone here I can't say enough how lucky I was to find this place
I really got excited when I saw that SBE-36 (and when I was little I drooled over pics of B-36 planes :love:) but after a little research I got skeered of the nixie tubes
Honestly I'm probably gonna...
Just wondering what this guy is found it while mowing someone's yard
Looks like a co-ax connecter super sized :oops:
It's got some numbers on it
I figured someone here would know what it was
Thanks
Hi guys just a bump to shout out for Mr Nomad and Mr Cable
Because they were right....not that I doubted them :D:coffee::cool:
Anyhow finally got back to this and got some results
Honestly mostly twiddling knobs until I got what I wanted which isn't perfect but oh well
The above was...
Thank you very much sir I much appreciate that info hell yeah (y) :D
I'm actually going to a field day and there is gonna be a program for noobs and antennas :cool::coffee:
Btw so I was still listening to the program in the second video. there was a brief "station identification" that came...
Yes sir so right now just using the attached telescoping antenna
My wife bought me this for ten bucks but at first I was discouraged I couldn't get any besides AM and FM :mad:
So I saw this
Wasn't sure what would fit so I ordered a push in (Motorola?) type antenna
But it didn't really...
I'm somewhat shopping for a transceiver and some of them have this
Just wondered what it is :oops: :D
Thanks in advance I'm gonna take my test 27 June and looking for something decent that might partially function and I can work on.
At first I kinda ruled out any tubes but now I see that...
Well I hooked up both radios with mic and antenna and got some encouraging results
The Johnson 250 can hear the Craig 4201 on multiple channels :cool:
Unfortunately if I try to talk to the Craig 4201 from the Johnson 250 it sounds like the Craig is receiving just silent rf because the static...
Sorry nothing to see here pardon me for putting this here just adding this for my own records before I start a hectic day of non radio BS :mad: :ROFLMAO:
Anyhow I tried a test receive experiment just dialed rf to about 27 Mhz modulated one khz and went looking for it
Found it on channel 18...
Well I was lazy and just twisted them on
But they seem to be working really good
I'm becoming more and more loving the "just use the DC power supply anyway"
Also I don't have to worry about that big ol TO-3 2SC7943 (?) getting hotter than hades
Hello to all the wonderful people at worldwideDX you ROCK :cool:
I'm wanting to attach some of these connectors
to some leads for this power supply
Looks pretty straight forward but do I need to solder these guys ?
That would be cool if I could just wind it around screw the cap on and...
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