[AMRadio] Winter

[D. Chester]

I had the same problem with  my HF-300 rig.  It would happen only 
occasionally, but often enough to be annoying, and I kept running out of 
fuses.  It went away when I replaced one of the sets of 872-As with 4B32s. 
I still have some unused 872s, but I am using the xenon replacements right 
now. I must have a bushel of used 4B32s that I picked up back in the late 
60s, pulled  from military transmitters that had been taken out of service. 
Only a couple of them have ever  flashed over, and I promptly threw those 
away.

3705 kc/s has been active the past few nights, usually after 0400 GMT.  I 
also plan to try to stir up a little activity below 3700 as winter 
progresses, particularly if the group near 3705 starts to get too large. If 
a QSO grows to more than 4 participants, I tend to break away and start a 
new one, unless the topic of conversation is enthralling or else I am 
working on a bench project and each round is taking long enough that I can 
do some serious work between transmissions.

Don k4kyv
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