BC-348P

July 14, 2012

Recent acquisition for the K9AM shack & historical association… I think the speaker I found is from the Korean War era and seems to match the receiver fairly well. Okay, so it doesn’t have the wrinkle paint but I ain’t spending $80 or $100 to get a WWII speaker. I will be taking a toothbrush [...]

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Storm 23-24 Feb

February 27, 2012

It doesn’t get any better than this or much colder… Click for bigger views. The first one is from the end of the driveway, looking down the street and is rather artistic, if I do say so myself. That’s David working in the driveway, good egg that he is.

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Big Tube

February 16, 2012

We have a ham op breakfest every Wednesday and attached is a pix I took this morning of Greg, K9QI, holding the ‘last tube used in the WGN transmitter’ before they switched to transistors. It’s an Eimac 4CX35000 and still works. The filament probably draws 3 kW by itself but I think he is going [...]

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Do You Know Bill Murray?

October 18, 2011

I do! I mean to say that I know Bill Murray. The below photo was taken at the “Kazoo” Hamfest on October 16th this year. That’s me, K9AM on the left, leaning to my left not sure if that’s due to my inner ear, or sense of balance or what, but that is definitely about [...]

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Rabbit Ears

August 4, 2011

Thanks to Jim, WB8HMD, for the ‘bunny ears’ — as you can see they fit -perfectly- on top of the field strength meter. Now it is complete. It looks purty good when I set it next to the $100,000 network analyzer, too. The contrast between the two is awesome sort of like sweet and sour [...]

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Sports Car

July 21, 2011

This is what I need to trade my Porsche in on. Red is my favorite automobile color. David seemed to like it and was encouraging me to “get it” little bugger is probably hoping to drive it in a few years thought I’m sure he’d settle for the Porsche if he had too… He knows [...]

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Favorite Receiver

July 21, 2011

Here is my favorite receiver, picked up at the KARS fest last weekend. A whole lot of lunch money for a year went into purchasing it. It has the ‘standard’ 3 Kc. filter, so I will eventually need to pick up a 6 Kc. filter for AM, but that is another savings project in itself! [...]

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Oak Creek Hamfest

July 14, 2011

Drove up to the Oak Creek Hamfest (Swap) on Saturday, 9 July. In tow were WB8HMD, K9QI and David. We arrived at about 0630 hours and the ‘fest was well underway, as those Wisconsinites start early at around 0600! The only thing that I bought was a stack of 10 meter preamps and an RC-1 [...]

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