Recent content by muscall

I could see this happening. I had in mind an "obsolete" way of doing it, but a little google search turned up some interesting stuff. How about these specs...

That's pretty cool!

Just got a bitx 40 ordered and already have the TFT VFO board, but I don't think I will have much time to work on it in the near future. After trying to work some DX on 40 CW with 15 watts, I have been thinking about the homebrew 4-811a amp out in the shed. It was good for 600 watts out with...

Pretty neat panel design program. I started with the amp front panel and it pretty well took me a whole evening to get it right. Printed the label and stuck it on today. Not too bad for the first effort. On the amp, the rear labels are more important than the front. Gotta get the in/out...

Thanks, my friend. Will take a look. "The Book" came in today. Been doing a little reading.

One last picture. I need to order some new feet for the amp that will make them the same height. I just need to make a few contacts and get the fist back into shape. Gained 1 watt from the amp when I put the cover on??? Must have changed the capacitance going to something. Now meter showing...

Here is the amp running. I am showing 14 watts out with .75 watts drive. My meter is not a high quality unit, and I question its accuracy. This is with 27 volts to the amplifier module. I probably need to recheck the bias current. If I can get a cover bent up by the weekend, I may be able to...

Looked you up and love the picture of the dog. I see you like to build also. Good to meet you here. Got the front panel mounted on the amp this morning and am taking a break. Thunder storming like crazy here.

I actually haven't done any operating at all except on 40 meter CW. I took a big lightning strike in the early 90's which wiped out most of my gear both vhf and HF. What wasn't melted down went into a closet and some was sold. I still have a few pieces. I have a HTX100 in the closet which was...

Here is the second part of the build. The amplifier board is 1 irf510 driving 2. I'm not expecting this to take long at all, and hopefully it will match the radio and make me one of the big guns with 20 watts or so out.

Let me try this again. I edited out a few seconds where I sounded really stupid. Probably those edited seconds didn't improve the video or make me sound any smarter:) Hope this works. Bet ya'll didn't know RIT was a two syllable word:biggrin Here is the URL if the below doesn't work.

Just finished a Forty-9er build. It does have a few modifications. We added an internal memory keyer using a K1EL chip, a hypermite CW filter, audio amp, and blue tooth control of most functions. Here are a couple pictures. And another with the lid on. Also a link to youtube with a...

"Cool" story. It sounds like lots of fun. Radioing or headed for surf fishing is all OK by me. RCC WB5YYM

Hey Michael, just thought I would jump over here and give you a shout. I was thinking that this was your site. Good job on the AA project. I think I tried to register RCC, when I signed up here to learn about Satellite stuff, but it was taken. Have a great one. RCC WB5YYM

WB5YYM, Extra since forever. Not active much anymore, but did spend 30 bucks last year on a Baofeng UV5R and built a couple yagi's for 2m and 440 to work Saudisat 1c which led to the FTA satellite hobby.