Recent content by Shadetree Mechanic

Modern vehicles control the alternator with the car's computer. It will vary the output to help motor efficiency which causes the voltage to vary from time to time. On some cars, there is a sensor that the positive battery cable goes through. The car audio guys have the same problem but I am not...

Just made contact with Triple One Five, South West England on 36. He is the only one I can hear and he is still going strong.

I have a few different 4 pill amps, and I only give them about 50 to 60 watts input. This gives about 600w peak output at about 15 volts. One thing that I like to do, is to increase the negative feedback to give more stable operation. I smoked one of my 4 pills a while ago, and the members...

It seems that great minds think alike. Haha! :LOL:

As we reminisce of life way back in the 1900s, it's never too late to bring it back......

Finally someone did a video about the service menu. He shows something about a capacitor to help 11 meter operation, I can't tell what it does?

Nada

I was 3 years old. My priorities were a lot different back then........

It is a piece of 4 inch PVC pipe.

Here is some info about ladder line. https://www.dj0ip.de/open-wire-fed-ant/d-i-y-ladder-line/

I believe a 10 k switch can be added. Still won't get the zeros..... I have one sitting on the shelf too.

Five turns at 4.5 inches is what I usually do. More turns will make the frequency too low to be effective. Will take about 8 feet. Edit: the picture shows one I just did with 10 feet of 400 flex.

While listening to some weak DX, I heard a familiar voice, it was @unit_399. Usually the DX is gone by this time in the evening, but the DX was still trying. I waited for him to finish his contact, and called out along with several other operators. JJ came back and we had a nice little QSO...

Make your own land line phone coms.