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Title: W8CDX Takes Field Day Back to its Roots Post by: Steve - K4HX on June 29, 2017, 06:47:28 PM http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2017-06-29#toc08
30s vintage station for Field Day. Title: Re: W8CDX Takes Field Day Back to its Roots Post by: W3RSW on June 30, 2017, 06:57:49 AM Nice article in the newsletter Steve. WO3M's rig pix magnified with lots of detail on my iPad. Now that's a set of vintage racks. Check out his link coupling and ladder line too.
Title: Re: W8CDX Takes Field Day Back to its Roots Post by: WD8BIL on June 30, 2017, 11:08:03 AM Quote lifted the grounded end of the receiver's RF/IF gain pot, and put a 15 kW potentiometer in line to adjust the side tone level. 15 KW POTENTIOMETER??? WOW!!! :o Title: Re: W8CDX Takes Field Day Back to its Roots Post by: K1JJ on June 30, 2017, 12:25:59 PM Yikes! Hope that club had their liability insurance paid up. A hot setup like that is just egging for some passer-by Johnny Novice Hambone to do a touchy-feely when the juice is on... :o
Some JJ Plexiglas would solve the problem. 15 KW pot, indeed... :-) Could they mean 15 KW Panama Red? T Title: Re: W8CDX Takes Field Day Back to its Roots Post by: W3RSW on June 30, 2017, 01:14:24 PM Don't need any lawyer.
1.) JN will learn just like all the rest of us did. "Ya-Hotta-ding." 2.)Look closer at op. and realize difference between church and state. 3.) vis, What money? Title: Re: W8CDX Takes Field Day Back to its Roots Post by: KB2WIG on June 30, 2017, 01:37:24 PM Looks real nice, but not too smart. Title: Re: W8CDX Takes Field Day Back to its Roots Post by: AJ1G on July 01, 2017, 02:14:19 PM The "Cone of Silence" reference always comes up when trying to get a multi-location teleconference started. They rarely if ever go smoothly.
I always enjoyed it when a fly got trapped under the cone with Max and the Chief. Title: Re: W8CDX Takes Field Day Back to its Roots Post by: no3m on July 28, 2017, 03:04:30 AM Quote lifted the grounded end of the receiver's RF/IF gain pot, and put a 15 kW potentiometer in line to adjust the side tone level. ARRL misprint, should have simply read "15K pot....". More details on setup and video here: http://no3m.net/2017/06/w8cdx-2017-field-day/ Transmitter details: http://no3m.net/2017/07/1930s-transmitter-update/ 73 Eric NO3M |