[ARC5] First contact

Mark K3MSB mark.k3msb at gmail.com
Sun Sep 27 22:46:57 EDT 2015


Yup,  that's an acceptable procedure.    You do not need to know your exact
frequency;  you do need to make sure you're in band though.

I use my IC-756 Pro's band-scope to know my frequency   No antenna attached
to the radio and RF attenuation is set to max.

73 Mark K3MSB







On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 7:55 PM, J Mcvey <ac2eu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have been tinkering with these ARC5 sets for a while, but wanted to see
> if I could make a  contact with  a very short antenna and the power supply
> not exactly ready for "prime time". ( it's got serious droop, causing
> "whoop"). The antenna was not short enough, however, because I had to use a
> series cap to bring into range where I could use 50%of the  inductor. The
> resulting impedance was a bit high too, resulting in lower antenna current.
> None the less it happened today with a station about 150 miles away. I got
> a 559 rst. Unfortunately he was very close to 7.125 and he was getting
> clobbered by a very loud SSB station from VK land of all places!
> Propagation is a very strange animal.The unmodified receivers just cant get
> the separation needed. An internal  fet Q multiplier is on the agenda.
> I see that Dave uses a frequency counter to find out where he is on the
> bands too. I know the calibration is a bit off on both my TX and RX so I'm
> never sure where exactly I am.  I have to spot the transmitter on the
> receiver while the guy is calling CQ. Then I answer. Is this acceptable
> procedure? I have no idea how you old timers made so many contacts with
> equipment like this. It was fun challenge which made the contact all the
> more exciting.
> A transceiver is Soooooo easy compared to separate  rx, tx .
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