Re: [AMRadio] AM Operation on 40-Meters...

2003-12-12 Thread Diane Swynar
Hi Dennis... Great! I hope you'll be able to hear me... ~73!~ Eddy VE3CUI > Eddy, > > I'll be listening for you at 0400 UTC tonight. Worked the East Coast > several times last winter > 0400 - 0600. > > Dennis D. W7QHO > Glendale, CA > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts -

Re: [AMRadio] AM Operation on 40-Meters...

2003-12-12 Thread Diane Swynar
Hi Dennis... Great! I hope you'll be able to hear me... ~73!~ Eddy VE3CUI > Eddy, > > I'll be listening for you at 0400 UTC tonight. Worked the East Coast > several times last winter > 0400 - 0600. > > Dennis D. W7QHO > Glendale, CA > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts -

[AMRadio] AM Operation on 40-Meters...

2003-12-12 Thread Diane Swynar
Hi All, I have heard it said that the VOA station that plops itself right atop the 40-meter AM window frequency (7290-KHz) generally shuts down around 11:00 PM EST (0400 UTC), leaving that part of the band nice & quiet... If this is so, I plan on getting up there at that time, which coincides wit

Re: [AMRadio] Book WANTED...!

2003-12-02 Thread Diane Swynar
Hi Dave, I haven't tried getting Jan---do you possibly have an e-mail address I might try...? Thanks in advance...! ~73!~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ > Did you check with Jan Perkins, the biographer of Mr. Wallace? > > Dave, W3ST > Secretary to the Collins Radio Association > Publisher of the Collin

[AMRadio] 1929 "QST SUPER 12" Retro-Receiver---Postscript

2003-11-24 Thread Diane Swynar
Well, the receiver is ready for the upcoming 1929 QSO Party...in fact, all I have to do, really, is button down the bottom cover & it's off to the races! Since sharing the pix with everyone, I've re-built the detector AND the BFO- --changed some component values around, is all. I've also made the

Re: [AMRadio] RE: homebrew receiver progress

2003-11-06 Thread Diane Swynar
Hi Brett... Just goes to show you can't keep a good man down! Hi Hi You sure are a prolific builder! If you have any of the old Bill Orr RADIO HANDBOOKs from the 1950's, Brett, he featured neat mono-band AM transceivers therein---I recall (was it the '58 edition..?) he had a neat 10-meter design,

[Fwd: Re: [AMRadio] re: no meter reading on Valiant]

2003-04-08 Thread Diane Swynar
Original Message Subject: Re: [AMRadio] re: no meter reading on Valiant From: "John E. Coleman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Diane Swynar'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Eddy: Please forward this to the AMReflector for me as I am at w

Re: [AMRadio] re: no meter reading on Valiant

2003-04-08 Thread Diane Swynar
Hi Ron, Nice rig! Congrats... Hopefully you haven't blown one of the multiplier resistors that's switched in parallel with your meter...I did that once with a Ranger-1 & destroyed the meter. Check the values of these resistors one by one---if any are open, i.e. infinite resistance, then the mete

Re: [AMRadio] Re: 500 Transformer

2003-02-13 Thread Diane Swynar
Hi Russ, You're a lucky guy! But you've STILL gotta watch it when baking paint---the odours are something else... ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ > I have an old stove in the basement- used to be used for canning > etc. the oven is never used for cooking food here, so- perfect for > bakin

Re: [AMRadio] Re: 500 Transformer

2003-02-11 Thread Diane Swynar
Hi Russ, You speak the truth... I still have an old Speedy Memo somewhere in my shack library from one of the Hammond Transformer engineers in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, advising me to literally BAKE any long-unused, vintage, unpotted transformers in the oven, to remove residual accumulated moistur

Re: [AMRadio] AWA Classic CW weekend

2002-12-09 Thread Diane Swynar
Hi Todd, Sounds to me like you may well be an active PARTICIPANT this same time next year! I sure hope so. The 1929 QSO Party IS a lot of fun, & it's certainly got me hooked! Since I first heard about it I've built a 245 Hartley, a 2x245 RF amplifier, a 4-tube regenerative receiver, & now a 3x227

[AMRadio] AM Mobile

2002-11-21 Thread Diane Swynar
In case anyone is up & about in their shack between about 1930 & 2030 UTC on a daily weekday business, I'm always looking for some good mobile 10- meter AM QSOs on my commute home from work... These past few days I've had to QSY down to the SSB portion of the band, due to inactivity in the AM wind

[AMRadio] 160-Meters AM

2002-11-21 Thread Diane Swynar
Hi All, Man, it sure feels nice to be back on 160-meters AM after such a long absence! Conditions these past couple of nights have been GREAT, too---no QRN, lotsa space from adjacent SSB'ers, and big, beautiful-sounding audio from the AM'ers I've heard/worked on 1885-KHz... Only one drawback: wh