by W1UJR | Aug 27, 2017 | Written Word
Intro This was written back in the last 1990s when I lived near Buffalo, NY, in a suburb that had zero lot lines, and little space for antennas. A vacant field in back of my home became the antenna field for my station. – Bruce W1UJR As some of you may know, I...
by W1UJR | Aug 27, 2017 | Uncategorized, Written Word
It had been talked about for months, and now the day was here. I found myself in a rented cargo van, with only 3 hours of sleep, at 4:15AM, headed off to the Rochester, NY hamfest. A Collins KW-1, URT-368 transmitter and a heavy-duty generator strapped securely in the...
by W1UJR | Aug 27, 2017 | Written Word
Circa 2005 Read something interesting in the January 1941 of QST this week. In 1941 the League was hot on running “Code Proficiency Tests” and awarding certificates for participants, in fact nearly every issue of QST in 1941 had some article relating to CW operations,...
by W1UJR | Aug 27, 2017 | Restorations and Builds
It started innocently enough; I needed the traditional holiday radio project. The year before it had been the renovation of a R390A receiver, and the year before that was the cosmetic and electrical restoration of a T-368 transmitter. Despite my recent move to...
by W1UJR | Aug 27, 2017 | Written Word
Meeting Fred Hammond VE3HC About that transformer story…it’s true! It was done for me, although I would not be surprised if Fred has not done that for someone else. When I first acquired my RCA BTA-500MX a few years back, one of the low voltage transformers was burned...
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