Just checking messages, etc, before bedtime. Insanely busy day.
Yea, CW actually IS fun to learn! My wife is picking it up too, she's really enjoying it!
I hooked the ART-13 Xformer up, but got the screen winding hooked up backwards. A bunch of arcs off the plate RFC of the 6146 greeted me! YIKES!!
Turned the screen winding the other way, no more arcs, 6146 is happy. But I've run into another problem, I'm trying to run RF and modulator from the same 500V supply and I don't think I can do that and still expect it to be 500V.
I need more power then!
So the real thing to do is to build a separately powered modulator, something quite a bit stronger, more versatile - the tubes for that idea, however, are tied up in Customs, they won't let them through, not for a few weeks now.
This evening was a total writeoff for doing any experimenting on a narrowband filter for the KW2000B, I had to go pickup the kids from school (in this weather, total trip was over 1 hour just for that), then get dinner on, get the chores done too.
My friend Lou VE3AWA loaned me a Kenwood TS-520SE for a year, so I don't have to be so silent while I'm working on creating my own stuff! Made a contact a couple of days ago in Plymouth Wisconsin with it, but since then 40m has started to resemble a welding shop. Must be the weather!
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