[MRCA] camp evans/nj antique radio club meet july 21

[Ray Fantini]

Tuning the 106 is more art then science! start by using the 50 Ohm output into a dummy load and then transition to the whip port. the secret is not to travel too far from the 50 Ohm point, at least more then 100 or so on the dials. It requires some learning to locate what to turn when, often you use the tune to center the load and the load to center the tune. If you get too far off and it wont work go back to the load and start over. The good thing is that once you find a tuning solution its always the same until you change something.

The antenna tuner in the 106 only corrects the amplifier output for a seventeen foot whip, when everything is working right there is not a huge difference between the 50 Ohm and the whip but the way that radio tunes its easy to get fowled up fast if you don't know the dance.


Ray F/KA3EKH


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Sent: Monday, July 2, 2018 1:01 PM
To: Ray Fantini
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Subject: Re: [MRCA] camp evans/nj antique radio club meet july 21

ray we could do mutt to mutt grc106 comms.  i had trouble finding a sweet spot for the tune and load into the whip
im copying bernie and breck on this too


jeff kg2bz


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On Jul 2, 2018, at 12:52 PM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu<mailto:RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>> wrote:

If I wanted to drag the mutt up there Friday night and set up for Saturday what would it cost? Don't want to have to shell out $30 after having been beat down for however much all the tolls will be on the turnpike for a truck and trailer. May just want to do a Southern Detachment from over here and try to do several bands as opposed to just 60 meters. Would be a lot cheaper!
Its somewhat short notice but may see if I can get permission to operate from Cape Henlopen in Delaware and try a direct shot up the coast?

Ray F/KA3EKH


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Subject: Re: [MRCA] camp evans/nj antique radio club meet july 21

Folks,

I really must apologize for not bringing this up sooner.

[http://www.njarc.org/images/swapmeet_flyer.jpg]

In the past two years we've treated this as an MRCA Mini-Meet, setting up a modest bivouac / display area adjacent to the Swapmeet site.

The location is InfoAge<https://infoage.org/>, located at the former U.S. Army's Evans Signal Laboratory.  This facility was originally constructed in 1914 as the receiver site for Marconi's Trans-Atlantic wireless-telegraph link.  This was also where Edwin Armstrong demonstrated his regenerative receiver to Marconi's David Sarnoff in January 1914.  We have a working demo of this.  (Have you ever heard spark on a regen?)

If you hang around on Saturday, until the 1 PM museum opening time, there's a lot so see including about 10,000 square feet of military vehicles.

Don't expect a lot of military radio gear for sale, unless a bunch of MRCA folk decide to show up as vendors.

If there's sufficient interest we can camp out / cook out at InfoAge on Friday night, and take a good look at the Radio technology Museum.

What do you think?

Al
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Al Klase - N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/



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