Dennis,
I listened to you several evenings on 160, and given the number of stations
calling compared to those you could hear most evenings, I thought you might be
suffering from a high noise level on receive locally. Your ability to hear
better on December 11 was quite noticeable on my end t
If you plan on doing a lot of the "F" connectors get a proper torque
wrench along
with the prep tools. PPC connectors, rubber boots for the female side
and silicone
grease are all good. Search for "F connector torque wrench" will get you
some good
click types and you don't have to spend a bunch
I acquired some Commsphere Flooded F-11 type coax. I installed compression
Type UHF connectors on the coax. I solder the copperclad center conductor to
the center pin. The shield braid is connected via compression.
The UHF connectors are working but I am concerned about the reliability
because th
"It might be something else, but I would bet the contact on the 160 padding
capacitor is burned off. This is what the anti-corona washer reduced. Heath
did not use that washer.
It arcs there when the loading cap is too far closed (too much grid current)
for the amount of drive on higher bands
My mistake on the last post. The contact with nothing on it is when the
bandswitch is in the 160 AND 80M position. jimk2hn
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Ah, quick look at the schematic. Nothing on that bandswitch lug. Seeing some
solder on it thought for sure something missing. Black ungrounded wire-
schematic shows it grounded although just doubled over. I will go over it
thoroughly before taking up any more space on the forum. Regards,jim/
Tom, W8JI, has some good info on the proper use of silicone grease on
his website:
www.w8ji.com/dielectric_grease_vs_conductive_grease.htm
Kris N5KM
On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 18:33:50 -0600 Mike Waters wrote
O-rings are goo
I like this stuff. It's thick. It doesn't melt and run out. Use it with
high voltage connectors and outdoor coax connectors.
73, bob ah7i
http://www.ellsworth.com/products/by-market/consumer-products/lubricant-products/grease/dow-corning-high-vacuum-grease-clear-150-g-tube/
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Hi all, i have just received my christmas gift from the "princses" a NCC-1 from
Dx Engeneering. My plan is to use this with my SAL30 RX array on antenna port
A and a single "noise antenna" on port B. My plan is to make the noise antenna
from a single wire. How much of an "noise antenna" is nee
