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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 94 04:30:30 PDT
From: Ham-Homebrew Mailing List and Newsgroup <ham-homebrew@ucsd.edu>
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Subject: Ham-Homebrew Digest V94 #313
To: Ham-Homebrew
Ham-Homebrew Digest Mon, 24 Oct 94 Volume 94 : Issue 313
Today's Topics:
Decoding Digital Data
FS:44' telescopic mast $45
Motorola transistor specs retried.
Specs of Motorola 9038 & 8925
SWR between transmitter and amplifier
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 21:46:39 GMT
From: starin@netcom.com (Jeffrey Starin)
Subject: Decoding Digital Data
I am wondering if anyone in this newsgroup would know of a method for
capturing digital data in the airwaves and piping it into a computer
Soundblaster card for analysis.
Any help much appreciated.
Please feel free to contact me directly by e-mail, or post here for the
benefit of others who may want to know same.
Thanks
--
Jeffrey
{New York}
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Date: 23 Oct 1994 17:32:35 -0500
From: krispy@bga.com (Kris Schludermann)
Subject: FS:44' telescopic mast $45
44 foot hot galvinized steel tubing telescoping mast. can be adjusted in
length from 10' to 44'. has 5 sections, each segment has hand clamp and
attachment points for 4 guy wires. base segment is 2.25"od top segment is
1.25"od. each segment has provisions for being pinned at max extension.
this is a heavy unit so shipping is likely going to be expensive.
delivery possible in Texas.
kris
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 07:16:56 GMT
From: eccles@alpha.acast.nova.edu (Brian Eccles)
Subject: Motorola transistor specs retried.
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
Subject: Re: specs on Motorola transistors (again)
Summary:
Followup-To:
Distribution: usa
Organization: Nova Southeastern University, FL
Keywords:
Ryuji, sorry about the empty article. The numbers look like date-codes.
Is anything else written on the transistors?
Brian WB4EGJ
--
Brian Eccles
eccles@alpha.acast.nova.edu
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 05:17:28 GMT
From: eccles@alpha.acast.nova.edu (Brian Eccles)
Subject: Specs of Motorola 9038 & 8925
--
Brian Eccles
eccles@alpha.acast.nova.edu
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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 19:39:19 GMT
From: tom_taylor@taligent.com (Tom Taylor)
Subject: SWR between transmitter and amplifier
I recently finished building a homebrew two tube 4-400 grounded grid
amplifier for 80-10 meters. It works great. However, I didn't build
a band-switched tuned input circuit. Without it, the input impedence is
approximately 50 ohms... but not exactly. I'm driving the amp with
a solid state rig (TS440s). Since the amp doesn't present a perfect
match to the transmitter, I use the transmitter's internal tuner to
match the transmitter to the amplifier.
Question (not a trick question, I really want to know!): Where does
all the reflected power from the transmitter go? Is it radiated from
the three foot piece of coax connecting the two pieces of equipment?
Or is it heating up some component somewhere?
Thanks,
Tom aa6br
--
Tom Taylor
aa6br
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 16:05:32 GMT
From: kludge@netcom.com (Scott Dorsey)
References<38689f$mej@sandra.teleport.com> <1994Oct21.131221.22475@ke4zv.atl.ga.us>, <38bv67$isq@sandra.teleport.com>
Subject: Re: The Little Razor Blade Radio
In article <38bv67$isq@sandra.teleport.com> burt@teleport.com (Burt Keeble) writes:
>lengthy post deleted to save bandwidth.
>
>I got several pieces of e-mail, and saved Gary's post for further
>experimentation.
>
>Anyone else have any ideas? Or want to talk about powering the thing
>up using lemons for batteries? Or stuff like that?
Yeah, but then you need an amplifying element to power them. I have
homebrewed vacuum tubes by taking the envelope off a #47 bulb, adding
a wound copper wire for the grid and a piece of metal foil for the plate,
just wrapping the foil around a contact wire. Put the whole thing in a
test tube, and used cheap soda glass rod and an oxy-propane torch to
seal it, then pumped it down while measuring the transconductance; when
the meter won't go any further, the vacuum is as good as you can get it.
They always went gassy after a short time, due to the lack of a getter
and the fact that the metal-glass seals were extremely poor, but it was
a fun experiment. And I did make a couple of radios that worked.
As far as foxhole radios go, Gary's description of how to improve
selectivity is a good one. Note also, though, that you can use a
fixed capacitance to make a tank circuit with that coil, which will
have a better Q than the two coupled coils alone. Take a few microscope
slides and stack them up with tinfoil between them... connect the odd
sheets of foil together on one side and the even ones on the other.
You've got a capacitor. What value? I dunno. Probably your first try
at it will result in much too large a value, but borrow a cheap DVM with
a capacitance meter and find out. (Yes, you can use the textbook
formulae to figure it out, but when you do this you'll find that the
edge effects are more significant than you thought, since the glass
microscope slide is a fairly thick material, and when you take the
edge effects into account, the math gets a bit of a pain).
You can improve sensitivity a little bit by using a detector with
a lower dropout voltage. I always had really good luck with copper
oxide detectors made out of pieces of old copper roofing, or out of
corroded wiring. I had very little luck with the galena/cat whisker
detector, although your local rock shop can sell you a piece of galena
and it's worth trying. The copper oxide detector is similar... flat
plate of copper with an oxide coat, then a sharpened wire contacting
it loosely at one point. (Again, you can use the diode function on
a cheap DVM to measure how good a diode your device is, if you like
to measure things.)
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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