Greetings,

I have a borrowed Kenwood TS-430S with a connect straight key.  

I have been cqing, and never received a reply.  I am not sure that the radio is transmitting CW.  I have had a few friends listen to (and around) my frequency, but no one ever heard anything.  The previous owner never used CW.

Is there anyone out there that can tell me what I have to do transmit CW on a Kenwood TS-430S.

Thanks,
 
  Roland   AB1DZ

Greetings,

I am wondering if adding ground radials to a G5RV will improve performance.  Any ideas?

Thanks,
 
    Roland

Greetings,

I am new to digital.

I have a Yaesu FT-7800, WINPSK, and RASCAL GLX mark V.

I read that packet is popular on 2-Meters.  So I guess I want to start with packet.

What do I do next?  I have a feeling the WINPSK is not good for packet, but I havn't been able to verify this.

Any help doing digital with the above equipt. is appreciated.

Thanks,

  Roland AB1DZ

Greetings,

I am a new hammer.  A friend is lending me a Kenwood TS430S.  He said I would need a tuner for it.  I would like to use it for 20,40,80m.  There are lots of tuners on ebay.  How do I know which to get?

Thanks,

Roland

Greetings,

I am a new hammer.  A friend is lending me a Kenwood TS430S.  He said I would need a tuner for it.  I would like to use it for 20,40,80m.  There are lots of tuners on ebay.  How do I know which to get?

Thanks,

Roland

Greetings,

I am a new hammer.  A friend is lending me a Kenwood TS430S.  He said I would need a tuner for it.  I would like to use it for 20,40,80m.  There are lots of tuners on ebay.  How do I know which to get?

Thanks,

Roland

Greetings,

I am about to install a pair of 3ft antenna tripods on my roof.  I am planning on putting a j-pole on one tripod, and a 4-elem yagi on the other (yagi 2m, j-pole: dual band)about 9 feet apart.  This is my first 'real' antenna, so I have a few questions.

I need to put a mast on these tripods.  I noticed that the 1.5inch galv. steel pipes at Home Depot weigh a ton.  Is 5 feet of this type of pipe o.k. to use, or is it too heavy?  What else should I use?

Thanks,

    Roland

Greetings,

I am planning installing two vertical antennas on the roof of my home.  I am considering a dual band (2m 70cm, and an HF multiband.)

I am planning on putting a pair of tripods on my roof.  I will only be using one antenna at a time.

How far apart should I put the tripods to ensure that one antenna doesn't effect the other.

Regards, and thanks,

   Roland

Greetings,

I am a newbie.  I am trying to decide where to put my hamshack.  I am planning on doing 2m, 70cm and HF.  My choices are a detached garage or my basement.

At first, I was considering the detached garage because it is about 150 feet from the house, and I would guess less possibility of interferance.

Now I am considering the basement.  I wouldn't be bothering anyone else in the house.  Since the house has a large chimney (>10feet higher than garage) and an antenna there would be perfect.  However, the coax feed into the house could enter the house with the phone, electric, and cable wires.  Am I correct in guessing that this is very undesireable?  Should I look for another way to route the ham coax into the house?

Any ideas, hints, comments?

Thanks,

   Roland
     

Greetings,

I am a new hammer, looking for my first base dual band (2m 70cm) antenna.  I am hoping to put the antenna on the roof of my garage, and use 50 feet coax to connect.

I found a few reviews for omni antennas.  Some boast 9.3/13 gain.  I found a review for a j-pole.  It boasts a good SWR.

The j-pole salesman told me that his is the way to go due to the low SWR.  However, I would think that the overall gain would be a good measure of an antenna's performance, and that the SWR is already factored into gain.

I couldn't find any discussions about this on the web or any of my books.

Could someone please clear this up for me?

Gain vs SWR to determine best antenna?
J-Pole has no gain?

Etc.

Many thanks,

    Roland  ( AB1DZ )

Greetings,

I have programmed my Yaesu 7800.  I have some questions.

I have three different 145.190 programmed.  Two into Memory Bank 1, and the third in MB 2.

None of them are DCS, and all have a different CTCSS code.

When I scan memory and 145.190 has activity, how can I know which one to transmit on?

Thanks,


   RG  AB1DZ

Greetings!!

I am setting up memory for my Yaesu 7800.  I have a copy of New England Repeaters.

I noticed that many repeaters have links.  What exactly are links?  Does this mean that these repeaters are linked together, so that If I make contact with one, I also have all the others?
Would the CTCSS code have to be the same for all 'Linked' repeaters?

Thanks,

    Roland

Greetings,

I am looking into buying my first non handheld.  My next step is to figure out what antenna to use.  I am interested in HF Multiband.  From what I can see ..

1) I will be stringing a wire (almost horizontal) between the top of my ham shack and a tree that is about 40 feet away, about 15 feet off of the ground.

2) The wire will have another wire coming off of it in what I think is called an inverted L antenna.

3) The wire will be not be over/under power, cable, phone lines.  I don't want to be mentioned on the 7 o'clock news.

4) I will then connect this to a coax, and the coax to my transceiver (with a tuner).  The coax will be less  than 75 feet long.

5) I read that the orientation isn't important as HF has a lot of scatter.

Am I missing or misunderstanding something? Am I just plain wrong?  I spent a lot of time going through books and the internet to come up with this.  Every time I look at something new I seem to get more confused.  

Is this O.K?  Any ideas, suggestions, etc would be appreciated.

Thanks,

   Roland  ( AB1DZ )

Greetings!!

I am a newbie shopping for my first transceiver.  I am looking at the Kenwood TS-480SAT and the Yaesu FT-857D.  They both are HF.

Someone told me Kenwood has a better receiver.  How can I figure that out by reading the spec?  How much better is it.

Thanks,

    Roland