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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID: Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season
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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID. Saturday, August 15, 2009. Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season. With apologies to Jimmy Buffett - It looks like it is finally showtime in the Atlantic. Go to www.stormpulse.com. Then look on the upper right corner and click the "Forecast Tracks" button. There is much to explore with this site - just hover over the various items and enjoy. One other site that has nice maps, especially when the storm is making landfall, is. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). MFJ 24 Hour LC...
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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID: Getting Recharged at Amelia Island
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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID. Thursday, August 6, 2009. Getting Recharged at Amelia Island. One of my favorite places here on the coast is Amelila Island Plantation. Wendy, Nicholas and I had the opportunity to spend a few days there last week. It was mostly work for me but Nicholas and Wendy got to play. The trip was a little less pleasant due to four separate electric power outages - two in the same night! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Live TV : Ustream. My Amateur Radio Station. East Coast Sound...
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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID: The W4MMQ Legacy Balanced Antenna Tuner
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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID. Friday, December 19, 2008. The W4MMQ Legacy Balanced Antenna Tuner. By E F. Bigbie, PE. Why a balanced antenna matching unit? Everyone calls them tuners, including the manufacturers. But they don’t tune, they match. For this article I will call it a tuner; however it is actually an impedance matcher. It is used to cancel reactance, both inductance ( j) and capacitive (-j). Now that we have so many bands below 30 MHz, an open wire-line center-fed wire antenna systems looks ev...
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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID: August 2009
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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID. Saturday, August 15, 2009. Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season. With apologies to Jimmy Buffett - It looks like it is finally showtime in the Atlantic. Go to www.stormpulse.com. Then look on the upper right corner and click the "Forecast Tracks" button. There is much to explore with this site - just hover over the various items and enjoy. One other site that has nice maps, especially when the storm is making landfall, is. Friday, August 7, 2009. Thursday, August 6, 2009.
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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID: July 2011
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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID. Sunday, July 17, 2011. Restoration of a Johnson Viking II - My first project. After years of surfing the web and admiring pictures of beautifully restored boatanchor classics I now find myself with a Johnson Viking II waiting to be returned to the AM airwaves. The transmitter appears to be physically complete and unmodified. There are no holes in the chassis or panel and all of the knobs are in place. The only part missing is the perforated metal top. At the end of my teenag...
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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID: November 2010
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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID. Sunday, November 14, 2010. Hot new Wouxon HT from China. So, I’ve done my research, read all the reviews, and in a moment of weakness, I have sent $109 to a US distributor for the Wouxon KG-UVD2 dual band portable. Http:/ www.wouxun.us. I won’t make too many more claims inasmuch as I have not received my radio yet but others seem to feel their radio has a pretty hot receiver. I’m anxious to see how it handles intermod in an RF rich environment. I have rea...One think that is...
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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID: 52nd Scouting Jamboree on the Air
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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID. Friday, August 7, 2009. 52nd Scouting Jamboree on the Air. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Live TV : Ustream. My Amateur Radio Station. Johnson Viking II Transmitter. Johnson Electronic TR Switch. Yaesu 857D HF thru UHF. Yaesu FT 450 HF thru 6 meters. Kenwood TM 271 2-meters mobile. MFJ 969 Antenna Tuner. Palstar AT4K Antenna Tuner feeding balanced line doublet. Wm M Nye Company RF Power Monitor. Model 43 Bird Wattmeter. Standard Electronics Corporation RF Dummy Load.
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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID: November 2008
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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID. Saturday, November 29, 2008. RF Power Issues with the 857D. Readers of this blog know that I love this little radio. It's the first "new" HF radio I've ever owned. I've always had older tube rigs so understandably I've been quite proud to own and operate this little gem of a solid state compact radio. And AM. For those who use AM, the spike can be horrific and exceeds 100 Watts out when the microphone PTT. Is first pressed. SSB. A solid state amplifier on 2 meters. I hav...
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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID: May 2008
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Amateur Radio Station KA4CID. Saturday, May 24, 2008. This is the first entry on my Blog. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Live TV : Ustream. My Amateur Radio Station. Johnson Viking II Transmitter. Johnson Electronic TR Switch. Yaesu 857D HF thru UHF. Yaesu FT 450 HF thru 6 meters. Kenwood TM 271 2-meters mobile. MFJ 969 Antenna Tuner. Palstar AT4K Antenna Tuner feeding balanced line doublet. Wm M Nye Company RF Power Monitor. Model 43 Bird Wattmeter. Standard Electronics Corporation RF Dummy Load.