[AMRadio] Winter

Thu Sep 30 22:15:16 EDT 2010

Well, I was on 3725 a little while ago with VE6PG, the other Tim Smith, and
Bill KB8USZ.  We called it a night a little while ago but had a good QSO for
about 90 minutes with Tim on his Apache and Bill on a FT847 running about 25
watts.  Bill was pretty tough to copy most of the time but at the end (it
always happens this way) he was a lot easier to hear.   I listened to 3705
but there's a bunch of SSB on and around it now.     So Greg, I think
typically now it is 3705 outside of the "window."

I have pair 4D32 solid state replacements--going to use them in my hb amp if
they don't blow open.

rob
K5UJ

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Greg Mijal <bluebirdtele at embarqmail.com>wrote:

> What time and frequency are you round tabling on?
> My Valiant is dusted off and ready for winter AM madness.
> I'm about 100 m eastish of Todd here in NC.
> 73's
> Greg
> WA7LYO
> Kinston NC
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service"
> <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Winter
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Todd, that's a downer. I was planning on trying to join you all tonight.
> > I have to work in the morning so no 2 AM operating here for me, but I
> took
> > today off because the wx was so wonderful and tried to do a little winter
> > prep work on the "antenna farm."
>
> I'm heading back out in a bit to start reassembly, but I won't have it
> done until tomorrow because I can't find my crocus cloth and need to
> go get another sheet. CRS is setting in.
>
> > I decided to use the existing wire until
> > it breaks and I _have_ to fix it (which will probably be in January, you
> > know how that goes). The old wire works okay--I should have left it
> alone.
>
> When I got back on 75 in 2005 I used the same old aerial that was up
> in '94 but came down. Wire was okay but the feedline sure did stink.
> Was so lossy, I could tune up anywhere without issue. Finally built a
> heavy duty replacement half-wave, coax-fed, utilizing large diameter
> mil surplus wire from a buddy. Now it's bullet-proof. I'm taking the
> B&W center insulator from my 40m dipole up to NEAR-Fest and we're
> going to rebuild it there during the event. Got some nice egg
> insulators, all ready to go. True, it would probably work best if I
> waited until January.
>
> > Do you use 872s in the KW1 or have you put in the s.s. replacements?
>
> Neither. I went to 4B32 xenon replacements years back. They're a drop
> in sub, look like the 872s, make a nice glow that you can't see with
> the panel on, and have none of the extended warm up/arc over issues of
> MV. Solid state tends to slam everything pretty hard, giving up the
> slow(in comparison) warm up time of tubes. At least a little bit of
> soft start.
>
> We'll look for you over the weekend, Rob -
>
> ~ Todd/KAQ
> ______________________________________________________________
> Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net
> AMRadio mailing list
> Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
> List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html
> List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio
> Post: AMRadio at mailman.qth.net
> To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-request at mailman.qth.net with
> the word unsubscribe in the message body.
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net
> AMRadio mailing list
> Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
> List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html
> List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio
> Post: AMRadio at mailman.qth.net
> To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-request at mailman.qth.net with
> the word unsubscribe in the message body.
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>