... except the ones you couldn't hear. Beverages are not efficient on RX either but have directional advantages. I have never missed any DX signals by not having one. G3KEV
My first uA709 (first real commercial op-amp, circa 1968) cost me five quid. Which was a LOT of newspapers. Unstable, noisy. And, with its unprotected output stage didn't last very long . . . 73 Stev
Agreed. Here in the US a current(!) copy of the NEC (National Electrical Code) is an essential night-stand accoutrement. And ditto on the isolated work-bench/radio supply. Add to that a mondo UPS and
Hi Laurence, Just a stab: it's unlikely an oscillator is coming up on different frequencies but it may be that in one 'mode' it's using the USB device's clock and in the other cuddly Widnows is nicel
Hi Bill, Audio afficionados are high on opinion but notoriously hard-put to show statistically significant discrimination in true ABX or ABC scenarios; I wouldn't be using them as any sort of criteri
Hi Mal, The Firewire adapter, still readily available, must use the TI (Texas Instruments) chipset to work satisactorily with the Flex. Do a search in the usual places - those that use the TI chipset
Good find, Dave. Thanks! 73 Steve On 4/15/2012 2:10 PM, DAVE PICK wrote: According to all the information on the Marconi historical sites it would have been 600m. The installation on the Titanic coul
Greetings, The constituency, expertise and variety on this group is magnificent and we mess with this at our peril. The benefits of a Yahoo group over the venerable Blacksheep are plain. That's _A_ Y
Hi Mike, Ooooh, analogue. I remember that. Possibly still available (I checked the Digikey book without success, but RS etc. maybe?) would be bucket-brigade delay lines, which were used extensively f
Hi Mike, Reticon was who I meant, however they seemed to have skipped out of that town, too. A further 30 seconds perusal of the Digikey book turned up a bunch of Panasonic parts of various lengths a
Greetings, Congratulations Peter and Jack! Well, the King of Topband now rules 136, too. Last night Jack was the loudest amateur signal (out of a total of, um, five) that I've seen so far here in cen
Greetings, G3KEV: "There is magic connected with the old Cinema and the ability to send/copy morse code." Don't get me wrong here - I'm a CW dude through and through, and love movies - but you should
Greetings, fellow static-heads, Rather noisy last night, a few obvious 'squigglies' evident, but not enough (other than frequency) on which to hang a hat. Tonight we are supposedly in for thunderstor
Greetings, I have just confirmed with Graham that he, indeed, is the owner of the "XTZ" snapped for posterity by Argo last night. Man, it was exciting watching the grass grow NONONO! real morse chara
Hi Jim, This 'gap' may not last long; there is a Dutch LW station slated for 171kHz, if they ever get a station together. They were I believe chased off land by conservationists and last I heard goin
Greetings, A couple of months ago the "which receiver?" thing came up over here, too. The attached below is a message I sent one of the guys (he was toying with getting a TS-440S, with which he is re
Greetings, This plays into the relevance of LF broadcast antenna directionality, a la Saarlouis-to-ZL, long-or-short path. Playing with a new untuned loop (late) last night it was quite a 'good' nigh
Greetings, Just a thought. Can anyone describe to me what Rugby at 73k-ish 'looks' like? Or better yet, have an Argo snapshot? (Might be an idea to have snapshots of 'all the usual suspects' such as
Hi Laurie, Parked a rig on 71.9215 as well, using a loop that gets WWV on 60kHz very well. Nada, sorry. As John remarked, very noisy. So noisy in fact that except for a good lift at about 0500z even
