I have two antennas for receive/transmit and a long wire for receive. The receive/transmit antennas are a 43 foot vertical and a G5RV. The vertical is attached to my rig (Ten-Tec Orion II) as antenna 1 and the G5RV as antenna 2. This is important because only antenna 1 can be tuned by the internal tuner. The vertical will tune on all bands except for 160 M and 80 M. The G5RV can be attached to the rig as antenna 1 and it will tune to 80 M but not 160 M. When tuned, both antennas may present a low SWR to the rig but are so poorly matched to the band that my output power is quite low.
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Nov 11
Blinking LED with 555 IC
We talked about kits at the last W5UMS club meeting. That made me want to smell some solder smoke so a few days later I built a simple 555 blinking LED just for the fun of it.
Simple 555-based blinking LED.
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Sep 11
Ten Meters Open
For the first time since getting my ticket ten meters opened up. I made several PSK31 contacts in the US and a couple in Japan. This weekend’s CQ Worldwide DX RTTY Contest could be a really good chance to make a few more contacts on ten meters.
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Jul 11
Space Shuttle.
I watched the last Space Shuttle landing this morning. Hopefully the next phase of space exploration will be as successful.