Friends,
Thank you for the suggestions. Please remember that my hobby time is very
limited because the cold comes too fast in Yukon, and I must do extensive
work on a house we are improving to become a rental unit for future
retirement income and because my manager has given me self-training goals
which are vital to my continued employment and present income.
I will not be able to spend much time developing these things, writing
software and so forth. Since Java is one of the languages I am learning,
working on a program related to it can be a work-related exercise. I need
help to make transmitter and ancillary equipment building take less time and
still have a good experiment result to present to the Radio Amateurs of
Canada for its case to Industry Canada.
Experiment goal: beacon steadily at 1 W ierp until May when the license
expires.
I must also reduce the amount of time I spend on email, so you will see
fewer postings from VY1JA for the duration of the warm weather and while
trade certification exams are being taken.
The reason I wanted to build a transmitter which it more powerful than
needed is that I am hoping that when it is run so that it produces the
current needed for 1 W ierp, it will be bulletproof like the amplifier which
Steve, VE7SL has lent me and which is beaconing at 100 W now. It takes
antenna changes from weather and wind and keeps on playing. I find that I
can readjust it on the fly. I want to build a robust 500-1000 watt rig, set
it at the license power limit, forget it, and not be afraid that smoke
signals is all I will be sending.
I have an RF ammeter which shows almost no antenna base current from 100
Watt transmitter output. To get the 2.85 Amps will require much more power.
I guesstimated about 410 Watts. We will find out when there is an amplifier
in place which can generate power enough to make that RF ammeter swing to
the centre-scale.
Reception reports like the one John sent will be greatly appreciated toward
the experiment report which I will be developing next May.
My brain function has improved but I still have a long way to go. If you,
my friends, can find solutions which are simple for me to implement, I can
continue to improve the station, and keep experiments going but am mainly
focused on keeping this property after my retirement.
Thanks,
J.
VY1JA
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