Dave Heil wrote in message ...
N2EY wrote:

Dave Heil wrote in message ...
Mike Coslo wrote:

Dick Carroll wrote:

Count me in.

Numerous linear amplifiers:

4 x 6146, pair of 811A's, pair 813's, 4-1000

a four by one...NICE!!! I'd call that "large scale"...

It certainly was. The thing was in a four-foot rack cabinet and used a
2400V, 5 KVA pole pig and a doubler circuit along with some mongo
oil-filled electrolytics.

SWEET! But they weren't electrolytics. Oil filled paper.

antennas:

duoband 12/17m yagi (parasleeve excitation), 2 elements each band,
hairpin match (currently in use)

2 element 40m inverted vee phased array (135 degree phasing, 1/8 wave
spaced).

power supplies:

a number of low and high voltage (and multivoltage) supplies from 12
volts to 5,000 volts.

antenna tuners:

100w switched "T" matches, 2 KW+ Ultimate transmatch, 2 KW+ "L" Network,
200w link coupled tuner for balanced line, 2 KW+ L/C phasing network.

Neat stuff! The only manufactured ham antenna I've ever used is a 2
meter mag mount.

I've used any number of commercial yagis and even a couple of multiband
verticals such as the Butternut HF-2V with 160m kit but I've never
bought a wire antenna :-)

If I ever get enough space I'm putting up a serious dipole or loop fed
with real ceramic-spreader open wire line. For now I gotta settle of
recycled NM and RG-8X. But when the run is only 50-60' it's not much
of an issue

Did I mention shack furniture and accessories (shelves, tables, etc.),
home-designed and made from lumber? Not up to New Yankee Workshop
standards, perhaps, but they do the job.

The main operating position here is made from a flush-type door on a 2 x
4" frame, supported by 4 x 4" legs.

I gave up on doors for tabletops about 20 years ago. Make my own out
of OSB and Masonite. Stronger and cheaper.

Shelves above and shelves below.

There's a shelf beneath for power
supplies and a two-shelf angled console above for rigs and accessories.
Studio "B", across the room is the massive old oak veneer operating desk
from W8YX, the U. of Cincinnati club station. It was featured in QST's
writeup of the 1937 Ohio River flood.

I'll look it up.

There's also the Tymeter mechanical digital clock I assembled from the
parts of several discarded ones. Motor from one clock, case from
another, 24 hour mechanism from a third, etc. Total cost about $2 -
ten or fifteen years ago.

Neat but indicative of the dumpster diver mentality, Jim.

Of course. I always wanted one and it has done the job for well over a
decade. New Yankee frugality - it's what built this country.

Use it up
Wear it out
Make it do
Or do without.

I'm afraid
I'm one of those too! I can't pass up old Alliance TV rotors and
control boxes. One turns our TV antenna, one turns the chimney-mounted
FM yagis for 144 and 440 MHz and one turns the 160/80m hardline
receiving loop.

I had a couple kicking around - dunno what happened to 'em. Maybe
they're at The Mill.

And when I find a space for a computer in the shack, it will be a
home-assembled one.

Except for my laptop computer, all computers here are home assembled
"white boxes" and are networked (but I bought the hub boxes).

Only thing I bought new to build the latest home machine was the CD
burner (not many of those in dumpsters yet) and the modem. Got maybe
$100 in it, tops. Not a power machine but I'm not doing CADD on it
either.

By the way, have you heard of the new Chinese-produced Linux variant?
It is called (no kidding) Red Flag Linux.

aw geez...the Chairman is spinning in his grave...

73 de Jim, N2EY

Okay, we have

Jim, Dick, Dave, and myself as homebrewers. Anyone else?

- Mike KB3EIA -

Mike Coslo wrote


Jim, Dick, Dave, and myself as homebrewers. Anyone else?


K0HB
K0CKB

73, de Hans, K0HB
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In article , Mike Coslo writes:

Okay, we have

Jim, Dick, Dave, and myself as homebrewers. Anyone else?

I've been doing that since 1947. Building radios and electronics
at home doesn't take any license.

I've got Greenlee chassis punches older than Parson Miccolis!
:-)

LHA