During the last sunspot cycle, I was experimenting (playing around) with my K2
(S/N 1757). I heard a CQ with an "F" call sign. I gave him a call from here
in South Carolina, and had a long and enjoyable QSO with him. He was at a
police department's amateur radio club in the south of France!
> > Here is a solution from a very old QST,
>
> It's not from QST.
>
> and all I can say is it works
> >
> > for me. My shack is on the 2nd floor and I run several rigs w/ amps . I
> > was having RF everywhere until I tried this:
> > - Run coax ( RG-8 or similar) from rig to a real good
> I have a kit which I picked up from a ham who must've been quite a smoker.
> I was wondering if anyone has any tips as to how to eradicate the
> cigarette smell from the parts.
Several years ago, I purchased a WM-2 QRP Wattmeter kit from Oak Hills Research.
When I opened the box, I was floored
Quite a few years ago, I bought (I think from Jameco) one of those yellow,
plastic plugs with the three lights that tells you if an outlet is wired
correctly and safely. However, this one had a female receptacle for the banana
plug on the end of the wire from an anti-static mat/wrist strap. I
In 1957, I was ten years old, and I built my first kit (with the help of my
father). It was a Space Spanner. I received transmissions of all sorts, and
several modes, from all over the world using a wire out my bedroom window that
ran to an insulator I had nailed into the eave of an outbuildin
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