Hi Jeremy...sounds like you're off and running with your 38S. I've got
mine in the construction stage and was wondering....which coil did you
take a turn off of on T1...the 19T or the 2T? I figured it's easier
to make the change now than have to pull it down after I get on the
air.
Thanks
Doug, K7YD
Livinsgton, MT
Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
>
> 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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