I continue to be amazed at how hot the receiver is. I heard a very strong OK7 near the end of the contest on 40 and thought conditions might allow a QRP contact, but no go. Turned on the IC-7300, hear

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Hi, i am using so called CCTV jacks with 6 pins, they fit exact in the cutting of the Bama case. The jack is a clip on type, the screws are not needed. I mouned them only to cover the holes. Ralf

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JohnL. Buying Chinese toroidal is fraught with risk. If your QTH is North America, buy from Diz at Kits and Parts. Or buy from any of the big part suppliers like Mouser or Arrow. Buy more than you nee

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Hi Arv, Thanks for your testamony regrading the LED and QRPp levels. I am taking your information about lighting the LED with 0.1 watts of rf as your hands-on experience. I would never have tried it.

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Ted, the frown-factor is real. Also, if you have VDSL coming in via the copper telephone wires, you can expect a lot of mush in your headphones. A mag-loop might well be your best option. The grass an

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Thanks Jess, It works now but i still gonna do the measurement you described. TU my vy 73 hanz YL3JD

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Steve, One last if you support the wire just off the fence (when you can) it may be less fuzssy in the wet. I'm talking inches away, using say electric fence insulators. I did that using trees and 5"

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It would depend on what you wanted to aspect you were wanting to tune- min SWR or Max signal. If you had a good stable signal source to listen to on the QCX, you might find the S-meter would respond a

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Today, I tried a very simple installation: 13m of thin antenna wire on a Chinese made 1:9 UnUn, grounded with a crocodile patch to the radiator. The wire was running out of the 1st floor window in abo

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Didn't feel like showing everyone what a jerk you are, Andy? Nice job, fella.

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Hi Fred From all the reports I have heard, and samples we take of stock, and the QCX kits we build here - I believe the failure rate of the audio gain pots to be very low - I think somewhat under 1%.

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No, not really and its not any fault of the power meter. The reason is you learn nothing by measuring the power at the output without a refernce of some sort and even then the TX behaves differently i

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Oh, sorry. YES, I did misunderstand you. I'm not really into FT8 and I work multiple bands and multiple modes when in the field... so we were on different pages. As always, it's horses for courses! 73

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Thanks Alan for the info on "Silver Sand"! I guess if it heat sinks the power resistors, it's ok. Interesting though. Learn something new every day, otherwise, it is a wasted day! 73, de Karl, KO8S

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I've worked VK foundation stations (10W) from mobile using KNQ7A (about 7W) SSB. Of course the conditions were exceptional and his antenna was very good. Much of the time no one heard me. I've also wo

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