"I AmnotGeorgeBush" wrote in message
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And I don't even do HF. 8-))



You damned sure used to.

When I mucked around with CB briefly in the 70's.

Why did you quit?

Too many idiots, jammers, channel control freaks, amp users who think they
need several hundred watts to talk to another idiot a couple of miles down
the street, kids learning how to expand their 4 letter word vocabulary on
the air etc.


You find six meter that much
more entertaining?

Better class of people. Anyway I'm more interested in microwave stuff. Spent
a couple of hundred bucks at the Ohio Maumee swap the other weekend getting
a Narda SMA directional coupler (model 4203-10 2-18GHz), a Omni Spectra
directional coupler (p/n 2020-6605-10 1.0-2.0GHz), K&L SMA transfer relays
(MS-28-SMA-TTL), a WJ SMA mixer (M1J), and a used M/A-Com 8.134 GHz brick
oscillator (p/n PLX12-01). I'm going to try sooner or later to retune the
brick oscillator to use on the Ham 10 GHz band. I already have an FT-817
multimode multiband QRP rig to use as the IF radio. The directional couplers
are for use with the HP-432A microwave power meter I have for SWR
measurements. The last thing I'm looking for is a cheap slotted line, coving
the frequency range I'm interested in, which I can use to make impedance
measurements. That's what was used before the rise of the $50K network
analyzers. A spectrum analyzer would be nice too, but that can wait.

--
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO

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