hi all.

i have eight 12 volt 7 ah batteries and was wanting to charge them (one at a time!). i have a 12 volt 6 amp battery charger and was wondering if i could use that to charge them? if not, a local told me that i might try hooking the gel cell up to my little radio shack 3 amp power supply (he charges his that way). i also have a big 20 amp power supply and assorted wallworts.

 will any of these work?

tnx sam/kc8vcb

thanks for the replys.

 since i now know that i learned the code wrong (i like the idea of starting out at 20 wpm), how could i correct it? I'm trying to get to about 25 wpm (at least) head copy by field day(if possible).

tnx, Sam/kc8vcb

hey yall!

I can copy cw at about 18 wpm and top out at about 20 wpm[when i say top out i mean TOP OUT].
I was wondering if you cw "pros" could give me some tips on learning to head copy?

i am trying to tune into qso's at abt 18 wpm sending clean code and getting the important parts of the conversation (as in name rst and qth). I also took my hw 8 qrp rig over to my grandmas and set it up outside but found that the ink in my pens were all to cold to write gud or fast so i had to try and head copy my two qso's. I did OK, i got the jist of what they were telling me (i found the one guy had a dairy farm. hi).

 I am getting into portable qrp operations and am also just getting tired of using all that copy paper!  i would like to get to the point where  i can get by with just basic notes. Anymore tips any one???

tnx es 73, Sam/kc8vcb

hi yall!

 i have the same exact problem! i have the stock power plug and cable. i understand about the cw and ssb differences but sometimes when i key down my power supply (20 amp 22 surge) will go into "protection mode", whatever that means. the display also dims WAY DOWN!

tnx sam kc8vcb

hi all!

  i was given a oscilloscope by a local ham and was wondering?
 
    i read that you can hook up an oscilloscope to your radio so you can monitor your cw wave form. how do you do that?

thanks! sam/kc8vcb

no i didn't. could you enlighten me?

i just got a yaesu ft 726r multi mode vhf/uhf rig and had a question. what is the polarization of the dc power plug?

thanks sam/kc8vcb

thanks all. does anyone know were the have a list of contesting abbreviations?

thanks kc8vcb

help!

i was working the dx contest and the keep sending they're power as k? what is k?

tnx kc8vcb

i am going to try and save up this summer for the yaesu 817 and was wondering if it had a built-in swr meter?

i looked at the manual but didn't see a swr meter but aes says they have one.

tnx es 73 sam/kc8vcb

 
 

  i am going to try and save up this summer for the yaesu 817 and was wondering if it had a built-in swr meter?

  i looked at the manual but didn't see a swr meter but aes says they have one.

tnx es 73 sam/kc8vcb

 

hi all,

 i just bought a 1945-46 vibroplex bug (for use not for just looking). it works great but i think the contacts need cleaning. what do you all suggest?

 someone told me a dollar bill slid in-between the contacts? i tryed it but no-go.

tnx de kc8vcb

howdy ken,

well you can either sennd dahdahdahdahdah or dahhhhh (acually a long t). its personal preferance mainly. but, when you work someone who is a newby i would cut my losses and send the standard zero. hi. plus the long t help in contesting sometimes.

 so gl es gud dx de sam/kc8vcb

p.s. cw forever fists nr 10146

does anyone know where i can get a cw filter for my icom 735 radio?

tnx 73 de kc8vcb

i looked, no manual for the 940.

73 de kc8vcb