[AMRadio] Winter

Thu Sep 30 22:16:45 EDT 2010

Hey Greg -

We hang out down in the 80m portion below 3750, anywhere form 3705 to
3735 or so, but usually toward the lower end.

Just got finished clearing tiny arc tracks from one of the big air
variables, just need to wash it down and it'll be ready to put back
in. So I *might* be back on the air tonight. That end of the band is
pretty wide open right now. Been out there listening while working on
the transmitter.

There's a good group from on 05 most afternoons. WB4EZ, N4CCA, W3JW,
WA4PGI and others.

Hope to catch you down there, Greg.

~ Todd/KAQ

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:51 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
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