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Well - my Valiant is putting out stable rated power on all bands - this
morning I'll suss out where the audio is disappearing to - should be ready
for Air then... now to turn to the Radiator.
I'm still in the 'steep' part of the EasyNEC learning curve - and I've
gone through the
I don't have the full manual on the AM-80 here at home, but I'll send you a
copy of the schematic by email. You can probably make it mroe sensitive...
Steve WD8DAS
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Thanks Steve appreciate
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 1:11 PM
To: amradio@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Gates am-80
I don't have the full manual on the AM-80 here at home, but
Listening on 21.425.
SSB Sigs heard lower on the band; AL0F heard on AM earlier.
Will listen with the beam W/SW until around 5 PM EST.
Mark K3MSB
Just gave a call on 21.425 from Sulphur, OK and no answer.
73 Jim
W5JO
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From: Mark K3MSB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: List AMradio amradio@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 1:39 PM
Subject: [AMRadio] 15 M AM Sun 12/54
Listening on 21.425.
SSB Sigs heard
NEED MANUAL OR INFO-DIAGRAM FOR IPA DRIVER-AMP.
Hi Jim --
Just finished up a nice fat chewing session with John WA0FDV in Fargo ND.
Mark K3MSB
On 12/4/05, Jim Wilhite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just gave a call on 21.425 from Sulphur, OK and no answer.
73 Jim
W5JO
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From: Mark K3MSB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
I heard Mark faintly in Ms, but lost him before he finished his qso.
John is now coming in good, but I couldn't hear him earlier.
It's a good day when I have an AM QSO on 15 meters.
I just signed with John, Wa0FDV, from Fargo.
When he was talking with Mark, I couldn't hear him, and lost Mark during the
qso.
We managed about 10 minutes, with me running my TS570 at 25 watts.
I'm glad to see people trying 15 meters. Most
It's great to see the interest in 15 mtr Am. Sorry i missed todays
activity,hope to be on tomorrow..Ron W6MAU
John, Wa0FDV, is still calling cq on 21.422 if anyone else wants to try to
work him.
It's now 22:05Z, and I am also hearing a few 6 land stations on ssb.
Mike Duke, K5XU
American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
Calling CQ there right now... 21425...
There was a brief opening on 6m this afternoon. So things
are looking up!
Brian, AF4K
On 4 Dec 2005 at 13:56, Jim Wilhite wrote:
Just gave a call on 21.425 from Sulphur, OK and no answer.
73 Jim
W5JO
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From: Mark
I have been monitoring the last few hours and have given a few calls, but
nothing heard on 21.425 in NH.
Dale
KW1I
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From: Brian Carling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion of AM Radio amradio@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio]
Band appears to be dead now!!
On 4 Dec 2005 at 17:26, Radio Station KW1I wrote:
I have been monitoring the last few hours and have given a few calls, but
nothing heard on 21.425 in NH.
Dale
KW1I
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From: Brian Carling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion of AM
Just heard KA1FC with the Pacific Maritime Service Net on
21412
Sadly since the FCC dumbed down amateur radio in the late 70s
by doing away with callsign area / QTH-specific numerals in
callsigns,
we have no idea where he is, no idea which way to point the beam
if we have one etc.
OK he just
The way to do it is like you guys did today. Put the messages on the
reflector so people know where and when to listen.
Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
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From: Mike Duke, K5XU [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion of AM Radio amradio@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sunday, December
John,
I to am a novice at this stuff. I'm having trouble
visualizing your antenna. You said,
the fence - of about
450 feet diameter, and nearly (but not quite)
square.
Could you clarify this to me?
I too have a horizontal loop. Mine is about 15' off
the ground, and has about 240' of
I tried a number of CQ's on 21.420 about 4PM EST but couldn't raise
anyone nor did I hear any AM. So, went over to 6 meters for awhile and
worked a number of stations out in the midwest. Band has been open, and
still is, most of Sunday afternoon.
Pete, wa2cwa
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 15:51:53 -0600
John,
Hmmm 450 loop at 5'. Feedpoint impedance would vary all over the place
depending on frequency. Do you transmitting on this setup, and if so, are
you using some kind of an antenna tuner, balanced output or single ended, how
long is the feedline, and what frequencies do you intend
Getting up a bit higher would probably improve things.
To get on the air I've used setups worse than I care to talk about.
Anything works better than nothing.
Right now I'm using a dipole thats about 54' each side, fed with a pair of 80'
RG-59 coax cables to a 4:1 balun in the basement, with 3'
Anyone have a meter for the older DX60? It's the one that mounts behind the
panel.
A friend and I are restoring the DX60 from my late Elmer, K5ZFM, and need a
replacement meter.
Mike Duke, K5XU
American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
I think we could have reasonably well predicted this:
...Perhaps the one thing most egregious to digital proponents in the ARRL
bandwidth plan has been an exemption in the 3.5khz band segment for AM. Mr.
Rotolo confirms that this exception has raised quite a ruckus in the digital
community.
LB Cebik, W4RNL, on his web site, talking about Cloud Warmers, indicates 35
feet as the accepted height for a 75m loop. I am planning a loop for 160m at
just a little over that height.
Joe W4AAB
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The neat thing is that in the hundreds of comments on this subject
over the past few weeks,
the ones with the anti-social attitude that are behind this latest
boondoggle proposal from the ANTI-RADIO REGRESSION
LEAGUE...
This was all in an earlier thread where the little PRO-Bandwidth
crawfish wrote:
LB Cebik, W4RNL, on his web site, talking about Cloud Warmers, indicates 35
feet as the accepted height for a 75m loop. I am planning a loop for 160m at
just a little over that height.
Joe W4AAB
Does he say -why- having the antenna no more than
Did you actually count how many different people actually commented on
these 50 pages? These rejectors of the proposal account for less than
.1% of the ham population. Show me better numbers and I'll have some
sympathy for your concern. Teller's comments also are almost three years
old. The
peter markavage wrote:
Did you actually count how many different people actually commented on
these 50 pages? These rejectors of the proposal account for less than
.1% of the ham population. Show me better numbers and I'll have some
sympathy for your concern. Teller's comments also are almost
I see more activity on the QRZ and eHam message boards then I hear on my
receivers.
And it is probably just as well!
Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
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From: peter markavage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: amradio@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 6:15 PM
Subject:
Ask yourself, what do you gain by using a Loop? From a transmit
perspective, not much, if anything. I have heard many people switch from
loops to dipoles at the same power level and location and saw little
difference.
From a receive perspective, maybe something. You might reduce noise in
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From: W5OMR/Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion of AM Radio amradio@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] AM Exemption Already Drawing Fire
At least no one has ever accused me of being 'broad' (signal wise, that
is
I've put the transformer catalogs and tube manuals online at
b u n k e r o f d o o m d o t c o m, just put it together, and have a look.
(sorbs.net likes to block innocent e-mails and then try to extort ISPs for
unblocking them, so that is why I have spelled the name as it is.)
73
Patrick
Jim Wilhite wrote:
is ;-))
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73 = Best Regards,
-Geoff/W5OMR
At least no one has ever accused me of being 'broad' (signal wise, that
I'll accuse you Geoff, you are too wide!
Fine.
Prove it.
(and here comes the excuses, the lack of proper equipment, what's the
'standard'? an HQ-129X?
What are the rules about CLICK and CHIRP? I don't remember the bitching
about them 50 years ago.
CLICK and CHIRP should be GRANDFATHERED for BoatAnchors!
Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
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From: W5OMR/Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion of AM Radio
Jim Wilhite wrote:
At least no one has ever accused me of being 'broad' (signal wise, that
is ;-))
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73 = Best Regards,
-Geoff/W5OMR
I'll accuse you Geoff, you are too wide!
500+ miles away, and *I'M* too broad, but that station in Antlers, OK is
not?
You -do- need a better
Bob Macklin wrote:
What are the rules about CLICK and CHIRP? I don't remember the
bitching
about them 50 years ago.
CLICK and CHIRP should be GRANDFATHERED for BoatAnchors!
I don't think there are rules -against- click's and chirps...
as long as you're using 'good engineering practice'
Jim Wilhite wrote:
At least no one has ever accused me of being 'broad' (signal wise, that
is ;-))
---
73 = Best Regards,
-Geoff/W5OMR
I'll accuse you Geoff, you are too wide!
500+ miles away, and *I'M* too broad, but that station in Antlers, OK is
not?
You -do- need a better
Pat, lot of good stuff there. Your index pages reminds me of the scene in
the Clint Eastwood film shot in the Pigeon Toed Orange Peel Good
work!!!
73 Jim
W5JO
I've put the transformer catalogs and tube manuals online at
b u n k e r o f d o o m d o t c o m, just put it together,
Jim Wilhite wrote:
The station in Antlers is probably the reason the ARRL is
grandfathering in the 9Kc. thingie, that way he is only splatters and
additional 12 Kc. I still say you are too broad. My standard is a
crystal set with a counter interfaced.
73 Jim
W5JO
A CRYSTAL SET?
I agree. It's probably better they battle each other screen to screen
rather than filling the air waves with all their personal agendas.
Pete, wa2cwa
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:25:30 -0800 Bob Macklin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I see more activity on the QRZ and eHam message boards then I hear on
Anyone have, or know a source for, a big knob that would fit a 3/8 shaft?
Or maybe it is 5/16... seems to be between those measurements. It is for the
bandswitch on a European marine HF amp, so maybe it is metric. I'm on the
lookout for a 2.5 - 3.5 knob to fit this shaft and give me the
On 4 Dec 2005 at 21:15, peter markavage wrote:
These rejectors of the proposal account for less than
.1% of the ham population
Yes and the proponents in that discussion (3, I think) comprise
about
0.06% of the USA amateur population.
The nays have it. The burden of proof is on anyone
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