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The rat shack stores here in indy are pretty bad also but I hit the store in my dads home town of crossville tenn. a while back and was shocked. I found cobras and even a galaxy or two along side the radioshack radios. I was looking for a pl259 and a soldering iron and found no less than 8...
Here in Indy, we don't have that many bad funnel clouds that touch down though it does happen. the southern end of indiana around the river has been hit several times in the last decade or so and flooding like what in going on in tenn. can be a problem for those folks I go to the classes every...
congrats on the upgrade my friend. ditto on finding a club, there will be lots of folks thee with gear that they are willing to part with at a decent price. My club has a bulletin board that equipment is posted on. Good luck and have fun.
mike
I enjoyed it also. I have enough 12 volt equipment to get the job done, and have the stuff laying around to make any antennas that would be needed but it would most likely take me a little while longer to get one up and running than it would someone with a field day kit handy.
mike
tell your friend that the wiring for the ts-520 is audio on pin 1, ptt on pin 2, and shield on pin 4. if it's a 6 wire mic, it'll be white on pin 1 black on pin 2 blue on pin 3 and shield on pin 4. if it keys as soon as he plugs it in, switch the black for the red. I hope this helps.
mike
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If you look long enough you might find a couple of tubes for it but the 8908 and it's brother the 8975 tubes are pretty much made of unabtainium. they are a 12 pin tube and the only tubes that have similar electrical properties are 9 pin tubes. the 6kg6 or the russian equivalent the el509 are...
The setup you have listed should be drivable to full output with 25 watts of audio on sideband. If you use it on AM, between 2 and 4 watts dead key and 30 watts of audio. If everything is in good shape and tuned right it should do close to legal limit on 10 meters.
mike
most likely if it doesn't have a switch on the front for sideband, it most likely doesn't have a delay built into it to hold the relay in the absence of carrier on ssb. Any decent shop can add a delay and put it on a switch for very little cost. It just takes a cap to ground off of the relay...
I've made em from copper and from tv twin lead, and the last one from latter line, and put it inside 1" pvc.They all worked well. I even once built a 2 meter tape measure beam that worked very well. The hams of old would laugh their butts off at the current generations love for buying everything...
I've got a icom 775 dsp and after a few years it developed a display glitch where the duel watch side would sometimes act like it was partially out and the light would flicker. I called matt in mich. and he said to send it to him and it would take about an hour of bench time to fix it, no parts...
I hadn't seen this one, but have sen others in similar fashion. I wish that in this communication age that folks could still see our worth. instead of waiting till all of their tech comes crashing down on them. And when it hits the fan that's entirely possible.
mike
A really good use for that rotor on your roof, would be to invest in a 2 meter beam. they are small, and really help you reach out there on 2 meters. the repeater being that far away isn't a really problem as long as you live in a fairly flat area, but I doubt you'll reach it with a ht. I would...
The 706 mark2G does all of the things that you need and more. It's mostly menu driven but it's easy to navigate. I have the first 2 versions and have used both of them to talk all over the world. With the G you get 440 and a serious upgrade in power on 2 meter. Very durable also, My mobile is in...
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