Back on the air on 75 with some caution

[w1vtp]

My friend, Bob, KB1QV came by and did most of the work getting my 75 meter antenna operational.  I did not get my Palomar Engineering 5 KW balun in time so I went to the candy store and bought a MFJ 1.5 KW 918 balun.  There seems to be some difference in the design center of the antenna but my automatic tuner seems to like it so I'm back in operation.  We'll see how things go tomorrow morning on our usual Sunday AM AM operation

We tested the original coax and it seemed OK so we left it in the circuit.  We'll see how things go

Al

[w1vtp]

Thought I'd post this picture of Rosie that I took this morning.

I'm keeping my carrier power at around 100 watts for the time being which results in lower signal reports but was able to check into the Carrier net this morning w/o difficulties

Al

[N2DTS]

Your 32V1 sounded great on 40 today.
Sorry I mangled your call and got Larry's call and name wrong, that is what happens when you have no high end hearing left.
The 32V did sound very good to me, smooth and balanced to my unbalanced ears.
Maybe you could use a bit more audio (the band was not great) but it sounds very good!

My 32V3 just keeps working.
I use it as a transmitter some times, and exciter most of the time, so it gets a lot of use.