In over my head?

Trying to figure out why the 200-1000Mhz slug for my URM-120 watt meter quit working. So far unsuccessful. Theres the diode in the foreground with the red stripe. Seems like its still alive when I checked it with the diode test function on the DVM, but no dice when its all back together and RF is going through the line section. Will have to wait for another day.

Selling at TRW was a complete bust.

Note to self, for future reference: people have no cash after October! Lots of looky-loos, but only a whopping $25 in sales this time. Not worth the back ache. And I spent $9.50 of that on some RF adapters. Fortunately, I paid for the spaces and the gasoline with revenue from a more successful month. Got rid of a few hundred pounds of junk in the free pile though, so it was a success on that front.

It was HOT today too, it supposedly got up to 78 in Redondo!

Attempted to fire up the Polarad!

Brought it up slowly on the variac. A massive blower spun up, and that great "old electronics smell" permeated the garage. Got an erratic trace, and as I tried to straighten it out the trace went dim and the smell went kinda bad... kinda burny. ;) SHUTDOWN!!!  Oh well, another time.

MRCG at Ft. MacArthur, 11/5/11

I'm behind on my posting!

A few weekends ago the West Coast Military Radio Collector's Group had their Fall meet at Ft. MacArthur, in San Pedro.  I heard there would be a swap meet, so I loaded up the Exploder with a bunch of the military radio gear that is on the liquidation list. Lots of interesting stuff see and to take pictures of!









And here was the stuff I was selling, the green gear all sold, but no takers on the gray or the black wrinkle.



MANY more of my pictures here.

MRCG web page: http://www.mrcgwest.org/

Ft. MacArthur web page:  http://www.ftmac.org/

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope all have a relaxing weekend with family, friends, and delicious food to enjoy! 73.

Car stereo thinks its a Spectra. ;)

What the heck? ;) It started doing this yesterday. It actually works ok still, with an odd buzzing on power-up from driver's side rear speaker, but it goes away after a couple seconds. This is in my 150K mile '93 Exploder, which is the hamfest and errand vehicle. So like a lot of other little problems that don't involve moving, stopping, or other safety issues, it will be ignored! Maybe I should pull the door panel and make sure the speaker leads aren't shorting out, hmm.

BTW, both of my Spectra's are working awesome after re-capping. One seems to have a noticeably hotter receiver, I could almost hear the repeater conversation on the N6EX Pasadena repeater the other evening, through the coax shield as it was on my work bench hooked up to the dummy load!

GTX 900

Now for an ebay transaction that DID go well.



Just have to take it to my "programmer." ;) Not sure I want that high -UHF RF in my brain, I'm going to look for a speaker mike.