Thanks Ted.

I recently purchased a Yaesu Ft-847,  open for any suggestions or advise.

I need a good repeater program software for the FT-847. Does anybody know of a good free download.

73 de David

I'm not giving up just yet, but just in case I get tire of looking I'll take that into consideration.

Thanks again

73 de David/n4ndx

Hi Steve/G3TXQ

I've tried to find the FT240-52 core but is nearly impossible to find. I Visit Mouser on their Website and they have a 3 weeks waiting period for the core. Is there any other solution?


73 David

It sounds like a winner Steve, I'm gonna give it a shot

I appreciate the help.

73 de David/N4NDX

Hi Steve
Is this for a single or double stacked toroids?

73 David

Thanks Lee for your response. I've seen the kit by Amidon but I still want to be able to use 1.5 K if I needed to, not that I do it all the time but pile-ups some times gets hard to brake in to and that little extra kick comes in handy. HiHi

Thanks

I'm in the process of building a 12/17 Dual Beam 2-El.-Open-Sleeve-Yagi which can be found here. http://www.dxzone.com/cgi-bin/dir/jump2.cgi?ID=23310

The Isolation Current Balun showing is the W1JR Current Balun with a Amidon FT-140-66 ferrite core which is no longer available by Amidon. I know sometimes is easier to go and buy one but since I'm home brewing the Beam I want it all to be home brew. Any suggestions of which ferrite core to use and turns "(capable for legal limit)"

David/n4ndx

Hi Paul
 
Sorry about your rig, I love mine and hope it would out last me. I chase DX as you can see from my call sign and I've done very well with the 1000MP just hate to spend an hour waiting for an opening, that's why I bought a legal limit Amp. I will basically only use over 1k for new countries only. I was using an AL-811H and was doing well other than sometimes waiting too long to get through.

Thanks aging for slapping me over the head to regained my two senses. 
     
David/n4ndx

I think I'm going to take Paul's/NN4F advise and just leave the rig stock. I think I can drive close to legal limit with 80w anyway.


David/n4ndx

Yes 106 watts on 80 and 40 M and 20-10m 80 watts at the middle of each band not on the bands edge.

David/n4ndx

I'm using a DL2K Palstar as a Dummy load, also using an LP-100A Digital Meter. By the way in 40m and 80m it shows improvement of 106 Watts. According to Mark-V owners when you twick the VR3003 clockwise you can adj it to even close to 200w, not that I want to take it to that extreme but would like 110w more or less since my new amp is a legal limit QRO Amp and needs 110w to make it 1500w happy.

David/n4ndx

  I'm experiencing low RF power out when operating barefoot. The radio is only maxing out 80 watts after adjusting the RF POWER dial (VR3003) to its max,  I only gained 10 watt from my previous power out of 70 watts. What could be the problem here?


David/n4ndx

That's exactly my problem. Don't know which one to choose.

David/n4ndx

    I'm in the process of purchasing an Amp and had my eyes on either an Acom 1000 or a QRO 2000. I know they both are a fantastic Amps but maybe I can get some feedback from someone who has or have had experience with them.

I'll appreciate your input.


David/n4ndx