Hello Don. I live off 290 and 1960/HWY 6 area.
I orders a NorCal QRP FCC2 DDS kit with the FCC1 Display. I am hoping to set it up to run different rigs, as needed. It sounds like you have a great setup up there in TN! You really have a full size, 1/4-wave Vertical for 160 Meters?!?!?!?! Bow W5EFR -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of D. Chester Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 14:17 To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Subject: [AMRadio] Re: AMRadio Digest, Vol 38, Issue 24 Bow, I think I used to live not too far from your QTH back in the late 70's. I lived in the Heights area of Houston, near the intersection of W 24th Street and Rutland (Ave?}. The 815 is a pair of 807's in one envelope. If yours is good, you could run about 100 watts plate modulated with it, or use it as a modulator tube and get enough audio power to modulate a 100 watt carrier. I had never heard that about the 815, but many of those tubes with multiple seals in the envelope are notorious for taking in air as they remain on the shelf for many years. What kind of DDS VFO kit did you order? Several years ago I picked up a DDS vfo at Dayton. It was made by S&S Engineering (if I recall the name correctly). It tunes up to 16 mHz, but I used it @ 7 mHz and multiplied up with an old Eico 720 to work 10m, and it seemed to have near perfect stability. I used it with the recent ARRL frequency measuring test, and managed to measure one of the frequencies (80m) within 0.5 Hz. So if yours has clean output, free of spurs, it would make an excellent vfo for AM or any other mode, for that matter. You ought to try to get in touch with John, WA5BXO and Otis, K5SWK. They now live somewhere north of Houston, near Conroe I believe. They have been tall ships on AM from the Houston area for decades, and could probably help you. BTW, does anyone in the Houston area know what ever happened to the museum and collection of pre-WW2 radio publications that used to be in the building that housed the Houston amateur radio club in the late 70's? They had a their own building and meetings were held on Friday nights, once a month as I recall. Part of the meeting was an auction that alternated between "good equipment" and junk parts. Some of the museum stuff was extremely interesting, and would be highly sought after to-day, and the publications, mostly broadcast related technical magazines from the late 20's throughout the 30's contained a lot of hard to find technical data and history of radio. They had some framed photographs of club meetings before WW2, and I recall one picture listed the members, and one of the members present in the photograph was Howard Hughes in his younger years. I understand that the part of Houston where that building was located flooded out during a hurricane a few years after I left. I would hope that all that history didn't get destroyed in the flood. Someone told me that the Houston amateur radio club disbanded in the 80's. Don k4kyv ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.17/730 - Release Date: 3/22/2007 07:44 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.17/730 - Release Date: 3/22/2007 07:44 ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
