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Clegg 99er six meter ham-amateur radio transceiver 1961
Added: 22nd October 2009
Posted By: w4djd
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Clegg 99er is a Compact top quality 6 meter transceiver made in 1961. LCF School LCFschoolThis is a tube unit and will operate on 110vac with a built in power supply or external 12 volt unit. The transmitter is crystal controlled and receiver covers the lower 2 Mhz of the 6 meter amateur...

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MRF6VP2600H 144Mhz Amateur Radio Mosfet amplifier
Added: 11th January 2010
Posted By: w4djd
Views: 1548
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This is one of my 144Mhz Mosfet amplifiers with Freescale MRF6VP2600H. This is a 49V Ldmosfet amplifier for 144Mhz which easily puts out 500 Watt in linear service. The amplifier exhibits a gain of around 20dB and noteable gain compression sets in above 500 Watts of output power. Not shown in...

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Morris Gingery Ham Radio Coil Winder
Added: 5th March 2010
Posted By: w4djd
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This is a video of the Lindsay/Gingery coil winder that I built a ways back. It makes nice universal wound coils as well as solenoids. It is basically the Morris coil winder that was popular in the early years of radio.

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Convert PC Power Supplies for use by Ham Radio Part I
Added: 9th March 2009
Posted By: w4djd
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This is a slide show overview prepared by Scotty showing his work with converting PC Power supplies to ham radio use presented at the August 2007 FSARC meeting.

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How-To: Set up an HF portable radio while hiking
Added: 5th January 2012
Posted By: w4djd
Views: 276
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Fall is the perfect time for hiking, it\'s not too hot and not too cold. Last weekend I took a day trip to hike up High Mountain in New Jersey and activate SOTA summit W2/NJ008. It\'s really easy to set up an HF portable radio and not a whole lot to carry up the mountain. This...

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Tandem French Military kites
Added: 16th April 2009
Posted By: w4djd
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Putting two single French Military kites on the same line. Used instead of a large Rokkaku kite to lift 160m half wave antenna.

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W0IVJ Homebrew Ham Antenna Rotator
Added: 4th May 2009
Posted By: w4djd
Views: 1835
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W0IVJ's Homebrew Ham Radio Antenna Rotator ... W0IVJ's Homebrew Ham Radio Antenna Rotator

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CARESS Sat Trailer Update April 12 2009
Added: 13th April 2009
Posted By: w4djd
Views: 278
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The Coquitlam Amateur Radio Club's new Satellite Communications trailer is nearing completion. The state of the art self aligning dish mechanism was installed today and tested. Next in will be various radios, a PMBO, antennas, wireless routers etc. The trailer is being prepared for use in...

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W2RE Amateur Radio
Added: 9th March 2009
Posted By: w4djd
Views: 486
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2008 W2RE finished a 4 month antenna project that swapped out antennas and added antennas to maximize gain using HFTA. The new antennas and stacks will maximize gain with the guide of the HFTA (N6BV) software.

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buddipole_yagi
Added: 8th March 2009
Posted By: w4djd
Views: 399
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