[SixClub] QRP and Small Engines

[K8RI (Roger on six)]

On 1/31/2011 11:13 PM, Mike Pappas wrote:
> Hey Roger,
>
> I have an Yaesu FT DX 5000 MP and it rocks on 6 Meters (long with all of the rest of the bands it covers) and I am running it with the Tokyo Hy-Power HL 1.5KFX amp you sold me....
>
I've been planning on ordering a 5000MP within the next few weeks if the 
market doesn't tank.  I'm well ahead of where it was before it tanked 
last time..  I just hope no stop losses kicked in over the week end. <:-))

I don't know if it will go with the station in the shop, or here in the 
den.  I changed my mind about selling the 76A and think I will rebuild 
it for six. A new transformer rated at least 2.5KVA and a higher voltage 
for either a pair of 3CPX800s or a single 8877.  That will mean a new 
rectifier stack, capacitors, and soft start.  I'd like to replace the 
front panel and use a solid state metering system along with a control 
board.   It's not cheap but it's a whale of a lot less than a new Alpha 
or Emtron amp for six.

Due to lack of time ...and age...I fly so seldom any more that the Deb 
is going to go up for sale.  It'll be like losing a family member, but 
at 15 to 20 hours a year (which I love) the cost per hour is pretty 
pricey.   Just insurance and hangar rent put the price per hour "right 
up there" and with my experience and ratings my insurance is cheap for a 
high performance, complex, retract.  I forgot having to have the ramp 
plowed out once or twice a week at about $50 a shot and right now we 
have about 14 to 16" on the ground.  That's the most I've seen in years 
and here we are with the "big one" coming in tonight, but unlike to the 
South of us where they are looking for1 to 3" per hour for a total of 
15" along with 30 mph plus winds (blizzard conditions forecast)  we are 
only looking at 6 to 10", but still windy and cold.
All the counties bordering us on the South have blizzard warnings out.

check http://www.wnem.com/imap/index.html click on Weather in the header 
and "interactive map" on the drop down menu.  Pretty impressive weather 
display when opened to full screen. You can look at the weather right 
down to the street level.

73

Roger (K8RI)

> Mike Pappas
> W9CN
> advanceddigital at mac.com
>
>
>
> On Jan 31, 2011, at 9:08 PM, K8RI (Roger on six) wrote:
>
>>
>> BUT I'd also like a Yaesu FTDX5000MF for the shop and for the Den with
>> auto tune amps feeding the signals to vertical arrays on 160 and 75,
>> with stacked  OWAs  on 40, and up. While a quadrature array of LONG OWAs
>> on 6.  50 MHz and up would have arrays for EME
>>
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