[PCR-1000] receiver location/lightning/power & audio

Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:38:58 +0200

Thanks Tom, interesting, guess I'll have to play a bit myself.

Zim politics? the antics of our guys make your fellas look like amateurs!
The price we pay for the sunshine!

Keep well!

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Dr Tom
Sent: 12 April 2002 12:33
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PCR-1000] receiver location/lightning/power & audio

No worries.....  Graham......   On the audio: I never noticed any difference
at all....  Try it on the bench...  stick a hundred feet of wire between the
radio and the speaker you use... It just keeps on talking.   Power
consumption is low...   So Voltage drop is low.....  I just used a scrap of
Telco type wire. Ten 19 gauge conductors in a UV resistant jacket... I think
I doubled them up for the power.... also switch between a 12 element
directional 800mhz beam and the duel band Comet.  Small dow-key relay with
'F' connectors does that. I am 60 miles from Detroit and before all this
digital stuff I could listen to services from there at will...... All my
scanner coax is 70 ohm CATV and F fittings.  Before the pcr1k went up there,
I did this with a BC580 scanner for several years, It never did fail. Years
ago, I had a 5 channel CB radio up a 50 foot guyed mast to avoid using
coax....  That shaky setup run a couple of seasons and just worked!  Left it
on channel 5 ( we are talking 1959-1960 here) Talked all over SE mi with
that setup.

I can tell you stories about a two way video phone system I made out of a
couple of old VCR's and two yard sale cameras between two houses with about
150 feet of coax between them...... Lets grandkids see and talk to Grandma,
full time, both directions.  Or a neighborhood 100 base t computer network
that has 5 users on one broadband connection.

Dr Tom.
BTW, I have been watching Zim politics with increased interest since you
detailed them to me.....

----- Original Message -----
From: Graham Black <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 4:28 AM
Subject: RE: [PCR-1000] receiver location/lightning/power & audio

Hi Tom,

So you basically just take the risk or rather the insurance does, for a
charge. Difficult here because availability is impossible - I'd bet I have
the only PCR1000 in the whole country and to replace it would be an
expensive mission of note! So preservation is the issue with me and as I've
said before I dare not leave an antenna connected 24/7.

Think I saw someone else ask about power and audio cables but didn't see a
response. I assume you just beef the conductors up a bit for the power but
on the audio? 60 ft is quite a run. Do you have any problems on that  side ?
how do you overcome them?

Regards

Graham

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