See?  I -thought- I had seen this before 
 >>> Yep. But in my case its what the rig puts out only,no amplifier yet.
 >  JE> As Wayne is fond of saying, it all depends on your antenna. If that's
 >  JE> you've gotta work with, make it work the best for you!
 >  Perfectly flat matches at 3705 and 1858.
 >  Couldn't ask for better as 1855 is where I am on 160m
 > all the time in the winter and I'm spending more time
 > on 3700 practicing my cw.
I need to get back on CW - been off for a couple of weeks.
 >  Boy am I BAD at recieving...
 >  Need lots of practice to see the difference between
 > an S and an H again.
Oh, it can't be -that- bad, Rob 
 >  The tuner can bear the rest of the bandwidth I need
 > to use for now until I get a better antenna system for
 > 80m. I like the dipole on 160 and it makes a great
 > shorwave antenna as well.
There's supposedly a 'late-night' group that gets on down around this area of 
the Country at about midnight or so, local time.  May wanna give that a shot. 
 I might even try to get on, myself.
 >>>  JE> Of course, by next weekend, I -should- have my rock crusher AM rig
 >>>  JE> back operation, again.  Had to get the modulator circuit finished,
 >  JE> Project got put on hold, and I still havn't found a way to cut a 
circle
 > in
 >  JE> 16th" steel plate. :-(  Maybe Monday.
 >  How about a hole cutter kit?
 >  I know they have them for wood doors and some metal sheeting.
 >  Try a local hardware store or shop that supplies metal-shops.
yeah, but I've decided to go a different way, now.
Since the "solid state audio driver" circuit (reference 
http://www.qsl.net/wa5bxo/driver1.html) is contained in an aluminum chassis, 
I've decided to go ahead and mount the tube sockets on top of -it-, and I've 
got another chassis that can hold the modulation transformer as well as the 
filament transformers.
A friend is comming by today with another small cabinet, that should be able 
to hold both chassis.  I'll just set the modulator power supply (a converted 
SB-221) on top of the chassis, and be done with it .
 >  JE> That's 2pm in the afternoon.  I just don't think a signal is going to
 >  JE> travel more than about 500 miles on 75/80m during the daylight hours
 > 
 >  Maybe not but we have anet in Ontario running from
 > around 6 am 'til 5pm that covers near the whole province
 > on 3755 (with a few relays of course).
Don't know the conversion formula from km to miles, but lessee, if 64mph is 
100kmh, that would make 200km 128m, and 192 miles would be 300km.  So, 
somewhere around 300 to 400km should be about the range of which you can 
depend on reliable communications on 75m.  At least, that's how it works down 
in Southern Central US.
 >>> All sorts of classic AM capable rigs can be heard
 >  JE> Ever listen to Timtron/WA1HLR (Or should I say "Double U Yay One 
Henry,
 >  JE> Yellar, Radio - WA1 H Yell-R" up in Scowhegan, Maine?  Maybe even 
Uncle
 >  JE> Ed/WA3PUN?
 >  I think I may have talked to WA1HLR once when I had AM.
He's a trip, but exTREMELY sharp as far as technical stuff goes!
 >>>  JE> Have you heard anything from this far south on VHF?
 >>> Farthest I have been on 6m ssb is the Texas/ Oklahoma border to the 
est,
 >  JE> Well, that's Central US covered   West is a ways to go, yet - 
nearly
 >  JE> another 1000 miles to get from El Paso to the West Coast!
 >  Wishful thinking for me.
 >  Will have to wait and see what the new cycle brings for 6m.
 >  I did not have a ticket during the last one,but if it
 > is anything like it was on `another band' it is going
 > to be fun on 2 and 6 ssb.
6m will act closer to 10/11m as far as conditions are concerned, assuming the 
MUF gets that high.  But, it's been known to! 
   73 = Best Regards
   -Jeff KA5THB
   ka5thb@bigfoot.com
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