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JT9 anyone?

By Tom on April 22, 2013

I have been reading about JT-9 recently. It seems that since Joe Large has discontinued support for JT-65HF (due to health issues), JT9 is filling the bill. Has anyone tried JT9 yet? What about the new integration with JT-Alert? I think I will have to give it a try this week.

I also fond out that JT-1 is the typical mode used on HF. You can also use JT9-30 which means each interaction sis 30 minutes. Surely, this cannot mean we transmit for 30 minutes at a time. That is for really weak signal work.

Problems with the Tripp Lite Keyspan USA-49WG

By Tom on December 28, 2012

When I got the Ten Tec Orion 2, I needed a real serial port. I thought this would be a good time to get one a 4 port USB – Serial converter. I opted for the Keyspan USA-49WG as I have had good luck with that brand on my Mac. It has worked mostly OK, but I do get random blue screens of death ( BSOD ). The crash dump reports the 49WG driver. I opened a ticket with Tripp Lite on 28 Dec 2012. I will report back on what happens. Note I am running this with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit on a Dell XPS PC (that was for the search engines).

Drake Twins C-Line

By Tom on December 27, 2012

20121227-015532.jpgI just got these back from Ron Baker in Tennessee. Ron took them apart and put them back together as well as cleaned them throughly. He repainted the cases too. He did a very nice job, they sound great.

Icom 775DSP For Sale

By Tom on November 28, 2012

The rig is sold.

 

I have an Icom 775 DSP (Serial #1185) for sale.

The rig is in great shape, works flawlessly and has ALL optional filters except for the AM filter. Internal Antenna tuner, 200 watts output, built-in power supply. Dual-Watch complete with 2 VFO knobs for ease of listening to the receive side of a pile-up. I have the manual, but no microphone as I use a headset.

I wil be taking to the Tampa Bay hamfest but I figured I would offer to fellow FCG’ers first.

Due to the filter complement, the price is $2000. Shipping is extra at actual cost from the shipping store.

I am selling simply as I have a Ten Tec Orion II and it seems silly to let this great radio go underutilized.

Don’t forget I also have the Ten-Tec Titan 425 1500 Watt amplifier for sale. It will be at the Tampa Bay hamfest too.

Finally….toning cables…

By Tom on October 19, 2012

After many years dealing with telecom (and using other people’s toning tools), I broke down and got a nice Fluke cable tester and tone tool. The tool is a Fluke Networks MT-8200-60A IntelliTone Pro 200 Kit . This started because I have to tone out a bunch of coax cables from the back of the house and I tend to do those things as time allows without anyone else around. The tester has an F connector on it so I can hook up an F connector to N female patch cord to connect coax cables. It also have alligator clips to allow hooking to bare wires or even a jack that will check RJ45/RJ11 connectors. Once I get it on Tuesday I will give it a try and report back.