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This time, 4 months have come and gone. What have I been doing this time?<\/p>\n
As luck would have it, not much. I have honestly been quite stagnant over the last few months. But I’ll try to mention a few things.<\/p>\n
To follow up on last month’s comments building a diplexer, I ended up deciding that the completed ones I have are functional. My meter shows the same amount of reflected power regardless of if an antenna is connected directly or if I have the diplexers connected into the circuit.<\/p>\n
I did learn something. Crossing coax causes the signal to “jump” from one line to the other. How I learned was this that the line going into my SWR meter and then out to the antenna was crossed. Also, it looks like the BF-F8HP has built in SWR protection.<\/p>\n
I do have another board with coax connected. Anyone want to buy one? I’m selling for about 1\/2 the price of the Arrow diplexers – basically cover the parts and a pittance of time.<\/p>\n
My amatuer radio club recently did an activation for the ARRL’s National Parks On The Air<\/a>. I did the 2M station, managing about 7 quick QSO’s. I did learn about band plans, in a capability I didn’t have before. I purchased a Yaesu FT-857<\/a>. The event went well, and we qualified (10 LotW certified contacts).<\/p>\n Speaking of ham radio, I also tested and passed for the General Class license. This means I have useful HF privileges. Only an autotuner and HF antenna away from getting on the HF bands.<\/p>\n Well, I won’t be uploading of a soldering the Handi-Finder. It works fairly well. I will try to get a video of it in use …. sometime. It’s not the best kit or instructions but it is doable.<\/p>\n Well, no, not really. Over the course of the summer I decided to forgo my vacations this year instead to purchase firearm parts and gear. So I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This time, 4 months have come and gone. What have I been doing this time? As luck would have it, not much. I have honestly been quite stagnant over the last few months. But I’ll try to mention a few things. Diplexers To follow up on last month’s comments building a diplexer, I ended up… <\/p>\nOh the HandiFinder<\/h2>\n
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