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Radio Repair Thoughts and Questions
For those that do know me in real life, I'm not an electrical engineer, I'm a traffic engineer (more specifically, I do traffic forecasting, which also makes me somewhat of a programmer and a...
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Ten Tec Repair Day 2.5
This still feels like yesterday's repair, even though it was tonight when I did all this. Since I had the final module out from yesterday, I hooked power to it to test. I first tried the driver, and...
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The finals are replaced and tested! 110 watts out! So I started looking over things. One thing I've been looking into is the zero beat. It seems to me that when you push the button, it should emit...
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New Mic, New Repair Task on the Omni
Last Saturday was the Georgetown Hamfest held by the Grant Amateur Radio Club. I noticed that during the CQWW contest, I could only get a response from others if I yelled into the mic. I'm sure my...
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Hacking the old Ten Tec Omni
Since I fixed my Ten Tec Omni, I've used it a little and I've had one major complaint: it doesn't talk to the computer. In fact, in the CQWW contest, I mistakenly logged my first contact on both the...
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