Recent content by daddyo

Just working with what I have for now. I completely understand what I need but as I said before I am laidoff from work until the end of march funds are limited and I do have a 5w dummy load I ordered a few days back I use it but I also like to hear them on the air. As far as charging people to...

Thanks, robb I will do that. I was just wanting to hear them on the air to check my work as you said. Radio shack here in town is getting irf-520's erf-2030's and all companion parts from a outside source so I'm buying some to try different things and to see how it affects the final outcome. I...

Midnight Special, yes I am testing radios but also wanted to be able to hear them to see the difference in audio being louder or not. And if any noise or whine's are present. Thanks daddyo

I'm setting up my work shop for working on cb's. Now my question is I put up a 102" whip on chimney on house about 18' from ground and put another 2' firestick in work shop. Antennas are 25' apart radios in shop are only 2' apart when I key mic on cobra25 w/ ranger 158 mic it squels real bad...

Mod sheet I think was off of mouldroppers.com Limiter is in place. 50ohm dummy load is on the way. I am trying to adjust gate voltage w/ 100k pot but can not get it to go that low it will got to 7-8 then to 0 then way above . Am I correct on how to measure voltage: one lead on gate other on a...

That was great robb you laid that out in simple terms this is giving me a guide to go by and what it would be used for. Just what I wanted. Big thanks. Now I have a problem I just done a mod to a cobra29 nw as follows: first mod called for irf-520 did not have used a irf-510 removed r55,r56,c61...

Thanks robb, I also looked at the ones you left me links to I think it was commtek ?. just looking around trying to find something usefull . Learning as I go. Again thanks. daddyo.

Anyone know if this would be a good piece of equipment or not. Been looking around for these since robb mentioned the usb scope to me. It is a usb 2ch. 60mhz digital oscilloscope spectrum analyzer dds signal generator sweep. I am not for sure if this would work for me or not just trying to find...

Man thanks robb for the links. I'm just looking around for the deals. I'm not real big into electronics so I have a lot of questions. Thanks again for taking time to help me. daddyo.

Doe's any one know any thing about these qrpkits.com test equipment. Rf probe, tracer injector kit, two tone test generator, accuprobe plus. Found there website qrpkits.com equipment is cheap but I guess you get what you pay for. I do not know if the specifications for each piece would work for...

LC, thanks a lot was hoping RF would be a good lead. Thanks again for the threads you guys gave me. Hope you guys know the stuff you guys are telling me is pure gold.(y) Well got to go oldest daughter has school in the morning.

Loosecannon, that sure helped me with the final and driver question. Been trying to make heads or tales out of which ones would be good together and where to get them. RF company has several for sale but I don't know if they would be fakes. I looked at the threads robb posted for me that helped...

I found somewhere can not remember right off where but these were listed as good finals and drivers. Could some one tell me if these are or not and which ones you can use as driver or final. 2sc2132 ,2sc1307, 2sc1817, 2sc2166, 2sc2312, 2sc2314, 2sc1957. Started reading understanding and...

Thanks, wavrider I did not know you could get a used o scope for that. Then again I have not looked much either. Any good web sites for used o scopes. I will check in to that. Thanks for the help.

Thanks retro and radio tech. good advice glade to see there's people who want to help me. Not many around here. Just trying to get a little better at this to try and help some fellow coal truck drivers I used to drive with for about 4 years. What would be a little better meter than my radio...