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Hi Ed,
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I am finally getting back to this as life, work, etc. has a habit of
interfering with other fun at times. I went back and did a better job of
matching the rf out to a good 50 ohm load. After that I decided to listen again
through my receiver. I do have a decent bench top power supply that I recently
acquired. I set it to 6.0 V and limited the current to 0.20 A. I heard my call
again at 12 wpm, and then listened carefully for about 20-25 seconds and heard
the very slight freq. shift for about 12 seconds after which it shifted again. I
am positive it is working correctly now.
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The next step is to start the Argo grabber and figure out the kits
operating frequency and also the shift. I did acquire an Oscilloscope this past
weekend at the Atlanta Hamfest from Mr. Garcia, but I now need a crash course in
it's proper operation before I can make good use of it. It's an older 100 MHz
made by Kikusui - I was able to see a sine wave at around 10 MHz when probing
the kit - I just need to see how to get an exact reading.
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I will put the kit in a plastic box with 4 D-cells and attach to a tuned 30
M wire dipole hopefully by the weekend - I will post the operating freq. on
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Thanks for the suggestions!
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k0nwt
Newt
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