Dismantling the EEE PC

Hi all,This is a post to compliment my post on modding the EEE PC to do awesome things.I will describe, in detail, the steps required to strip your eee pc 701 down to its bare bones (you have to figure out how to put it back together again yourself).1 - Remove battery, modem bung, RAM doorRemoving the battery is easy. Grap the two slidey...

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A working 815 transmitter

I have a working 815 transmitter. Unfortunately I had to "glue" a capacitor on to the side of the chassis to do it. Key to getting the final to work into a variety of loads is some sort of antenna tuner. Adding a capacitor into the grounded side of the output link does just that. The added capacitor does output loading . Tune up now amounts...

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QRP (and a little homebrew)

After a couple of days of on and off rain with cool weather here in SE Minnesota, today was sunny and temperature about 70 ... great evening for a picnic and a little QRPing from the park. We chose to go to Florence Park in Stewartville, MN. With my K1 and 67' endfed wire in a tree, 20 mtrs sounded pretty dead. An early CQ did raise K9PWK but QSB was bad and we lost each other before we really had much of a QSO (he gave me a...

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Mobile radio installation guidelines.

GMNA Engineering CentersGeneral Motors CorporationRadio Telephone / Mobile Radio Installation GuidelinesCertain radio telephones or land mobile radios or the way in which they are installed may adversely affect vehicle operations such as the performance of the engine and driver information, entertainment and electrical charging systems. Expenses incurred to protect the vehicle systems from any adverse effect of any such installation...

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CQ CQ CQ de W0VLZ 2007-05-08 01:30:00

I've powered my new transmitter up on 40 meters.For use during this test phase I built an adapter to allow the use of B&W 5 pin JVL transmitter coils instead of winding coils on my National coil forms. I'm also temporarily connecting the bias and voltage dropping resistor networks to the back 12 terminal barrier strip. This way I can...

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A mid 30's Three Tube Regen

I aquired another radio last week. This one I "won" through ebay. The pictures posted on ebay showed a fairly ughly set with three mis-matched dials. The layout, though, suggested the "Three Tube Regenerative Receiver of Unusual Performance" by George Grammer and written up in the January 1933 issue of QST.I bid and the gamble paid off. Underneath...

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