Sunday, November 22, 2015

Exterior enclosure--probable solution

Thanks to Phil (PRE) for the outstanding enclosure.  It will easily accommodate 4 Balkans (baluns--what does spell check know!) and their corresponding polygamists (polyphasers--I mean really spell check--take a break).  The door has a rubber seal bolts tightly shut. The box is made from 1/8" material and will easily resist mountain weather and critters.  Welded pre-drilled mounting tabs will allow easy attachment to a steel or wooden post, or even bolting to the rock retaining wall.

Most importantly, Jack solved the balanced line routing problem recommending porcelain feedthrough standoff insulators--a pair of course for each balanced line coming into the enclosure.  The depth of the enclosure will easily accommodate two such feedthrough insulators side by side.

Width


Metal Box


Pass Throughs

Plastic Enclosure

External Balanced Line Antenna Switch?


Sunday, November 1, 2015

Virtual Rig

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Not yet even close to prime time.  Only in design phase....which it may not survive!
If you could put anything on the control GUI what would you add?



Thursday, October 29, 2015

NSA? CIA? Bored ham?

I happened to leave the W4UOA webcam on this morning when I left home.  I came back to find 140.194.40.65 connected.  They have been connected for the last 1 hour and 51 minutes and going strong.  Who is this you ask?  See below....



It turns out that....



The valley view is not quite as entertaining as an Eagle Cam but hey...the web site is pretty cool!  

Anyone know the owner?

Sunday, October 25, 2015

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Saturday, October 10, 2015