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Hi Guys, Working on my QRZ SSB Worked All States award and I'm down to North Dakota and Michigan. I need a contact in each and need them QRZ or LoTW confirmed (I can import a LoTW confirmation into QRZ and they will count it). I'm in Nebraska, retired, Extra Class, and I can work 80 through...

I've ran across the 247 DX Net on 14.247 around 20:00z a couple times. I enjoy doing the Triple H, OMISS and 3905 nets, so I may want to join in this one too, but I can't find any info out on it. There seems to be a Facebook page that hasn't had any activity since 2011 and that's about it. I...

I started a thread called "Antenna tuners in series?", but the focus has wandered a bit to low, non-optimum installs so I thought I would start a new thread that reflects what I've discovered is what I feel a prevelant antenna attitude that's doing a big disservice by keeping people off of HF...

Hi Guys, My world is a bit turned upside down, due to an eye disease called Non-Arteritic Ischemic Optic Neuropathy I've been left with very low vision. I had it in one eye and it was only a 15% chance it would hit the other, but my luck didn't hold out, it struck and devastated the other eye...

Hi Guys, I picked up a Dentron MT-2000A antenna tuner. It's a nice enough unit for a piece of 1978 equipment, but the tuning caps seemed loosed and could be moved left and right. I lifted the lid and found that it looks like it's missing a couple mounting nuts. The caps mount to plexiglass...

Hi Guys, I just upgraded to General class and since I've been working so hard to get that license and the privileges it conveys, I'd like to be able to use as many of the bands as possible. I have a small lot in town though, and a small budget. I'm thinking of an offset feed antenna such as a...

Hi Guys, I got my Tech license last month and just passed my General test this month. A club member made me a good deal on an Icom IC-730. It's not in the best of shape, but not the worst either. Basically it's just dirty and it's been sitting for a while. It belonged to his father-inlaw...

CBduino Lite V1_0 This version of CBduino has the lcd display routines removed so you'll need a radio with a frequency counter (internal or external). It simply reads a 10K pot and adjusts the PLL settings from the lowest to the highest. This isn't radio specific, any radio with a 8719 will...

Hi Guys, I've been having fun experimenting with my Galaxy DX-979. I wanted to increase the frequency coverage, but I wasn't happy with the usual switches that modify the settings fed to the PLL. Mostly because I don't care for the frequencies being out of order and having to refer to a...

Hi Guys, Playing with my radio today and when I hooked my new SWR meter up I had no audio when I turned it on. I'm using it as a base so as I moved things around to check connections it suddenly came on. It seems to be working but just missing audio when it happens as the meter reflects...

Hi Guys, I'd like to peak my radio up myself, looks pretty straight forward, but I need some non-conductive tools...is there a good inexpensive source for inductor tuning tools?

Hi Guys, I'm putting a dipole up for my shack, it'll be under the eaves of the house. I plan on orientating it east/west, however north/south may be nice occasionally. I'm considering two dipoles and a switch, but then it occurred to me that maybe I could put it near the corner of the house...

Hi Guys, I've been out of electronics/radios for a long time and am just now getting back into it, so I don't have all the tools I used to. I'm going to set up a 1/2 wave dipole using some 12 or 14 awg copper wire and the Budwig center insulator. The directions say to solder the wire to the...

Hi Guys, Any recommendations on a decent, reasonably priced power/swr meter? It looks like the Workman hp201s, is a pretty good value...am I overlooking any others? Thanks! Steve

Hi Guys, Years ago my brother was into freebanding and had a really nice setup, a full Yaesu FT-101E station. As a young teenager I had a lot of fun talking DX with it and later I did get a ham ticket and put that equipment to full use. As time went on, I went to college, got married, etc. and...