Last night I took my 38s outputting about 330mw and made my first QSO.
WB0RXF in South Dakota. I'm over here in Ohio, so that's about 900 miles!
My signal report was not too good, but I had a QSO!
All went together fairly easy. Before I hit the power switch, I checked in
a few places to make sure of no shorts, looked over the board for bad
solder joints, bridges, etc. and found nothing wrong. Fired it up, and
nothing from the speaker. Hum, key'd one of my other rigs and got a loud
tone but no static, no other stations, nothing.
Looking around, Opps! I forgot R20 (I think that was the one) in the audio
stage. Slaped that thing in yesterday morning, and alive it came. Now, lets
see what happens when I key the thing. Wow, I got something coming out! Not
pretty, but something. I simply tuned VR2 and with a little sensitive
changes, I got a nice clean sinewave at about 330mw.
Later I took a turn off of T1, and it is now more sensitive, and I do have
two peaks, but one is very faint. I think I will take another off today and
see what happens.
Then yesterday afternoon I herd WB0RXF calling CQ, and I replyed WB0RXF
WB0RXF de KB8LFA/AG KB8LFA/AG ... Waited a few seconds, KB8LFA/AG DE WB0RXF
BT ... Yippey!
Now for the 5w mod... I am not going to do the TiCK mod. I have paddles
that have a top cover on them, and I installed the TiCK circuit board
inside of my paddles, added a RCA output, found room to mount a 9V battery,
and a Radio Shack PIEZO inside of my paddles, and now I have a tick keyer
for all my rigs that remembers where I put it because the 9v battery is
always connected...
Still waiting to hear what is the correct way to fix the thump, or whatever
thump I have. Version 1.0, 1.1, or maybe ever 1.2!
Thanks for the help from everyone,
Jeremy Cowgar - KB8LFA
KB8LFA@qsl.net
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