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I believe this is the fourth gardening post this spring. I also think it is the most important of the four. Recall our disappointment at the high prices at Calloways in Plano. Maybe you don’t recall. Well drive up to Plano and look. You will see what we mean. Those prices were so [...] Finally got the tube sockets ordered for the new 811 amp. Soon there will be a pair of 4-400s with sockets and blower available for more serious amplifier duty in someone else’s shack. We will be using four 811s along with our 1500vdc one amp HV supply. The linear will still be larger than it needs [...] We have come to a new appreciation of rain. We have not had enough of it in the recent past. Minor drought conditions have prevailed. This week we got plenty of rain. Although we only recorded about two inches, parts north of here got as much as ten inches. Spring rains are important. [...] Resonance is the condition where the antenna displays a resistive load of predictable value at the frequency of interest. You get there by cutting a dipole to a half wavelength, breaking it at the center and attaching a feedline there. Then raising the whole mess in a flat top configuration a certain distance [...] I went from antenna tuner to resonant dipole fed with coax and now back to non-resonant dipole with antenna tuner again. Getting the thing tuned up on 75 meters this morning I re-discovered a neat property of non-resonant antennas. They are completely deaf except for the frequency to which they are tuned. I had this thing [...] Not sure how this happened but for some reason I disabled the cookie function in my browser last night. Today I found that I could not log on to my blog. I entered the user name and password but instead of allowing me access, I got the login page again with blank user name and [...] This years season started out as every other season. We made the rounds. First to a real nursery. Then to the home improvement center. Then back home to plant our purchases. As usual the nursery was still specializing in annuals and high prices. On the way back from the nursery we [...] Home Run roses. Found them at Sam’s. Nice, large, flowering plant in a 5 gallon container for 12 dollars. Non-stop flowers, no pruning, thrives in any soil. Got two of them one for the front garden and one for the side garden. Funny looking petals for a rose. They look more [...] Some people swear by it. I am more inclined to swear at it. QRP is not an option I can consider when I have equipment that is QRO. Going QRP now would be like trading in my SUV for a moped. I am just not the kind of person that thinks that would [...] It is official now. Spring is here. Even though it is unseasonably cool the arrival of storms from the west signal the arrival of spring. Last night we had some excitement lasting almost two hours. We have been here, in the same place, since 1979 and it has always been the same drill. Cold [...] |
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