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A Happy and Healthy New Year to all. Yes, I will send out a Zoom invite tomorrow (Thursday) if the WX still looks bleak. 73 N6POM Howard

Same to you and best to the group! I just logged my first SKN qso . 40m is hopping right now. I am very fond of my old J38 . 73 es HNY, Connie Stillinger W6EFI stillinger@... 650-380-2018

KM6RI now on ~14070 with McCoy and a VFO. Listen for the warbler bird!

Greetings QRPers! I will be on the air sporadically this evening with my K2 and possily the HW-16 if she is in the mood, using the 1979 Vibroplex Champion (last year of production) with a Model A

WX doesn’t look promising. Unless there is a favorable change, I plan to stay home. Will Howard be able to host a Zoom session? Hiroki AH6CY

For the French? challenged, me too.

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I just ordered a zBitx at HFSignals.com for $178 shipped.? Ashhar Farhan's new rig will ship starting in February. Bob KF6ABC

Must have been some good fun to work with top level test equipment on a well equipped bench. I'd be happy to get a desk with 3 square feet clear right now, ha.

Aaron and All, Thanks for the tip. I just got back from seeing Shakeel and he thinks it is the screen. He ordered one and says it will be $150 to replace it. I thought that my photos were not backup,

"I know a guy, who knows a guy...." -- Shakeel the Phone Repair Guy in SSF is great. https://www.yelp.com/biz/shakeel-the-phone-repair-guy-south-san-francisco-2 He's replaced a couple cracked screens

At one time in my career, I was working on a high speed (gigabit) digital PCB.?? Used a Tek scope with TDR function to check for impedance discontinuities.? ? When I would turn it on, the distance

More about TDR - some antenna analyzers such as my MFJ-269 have a distance to fault mode, which looks for impedance discontinuities. It works well, about a foot resolution. - VNAs can also do FDR on

A trek for you but may be worth it... I have used him twice: https://m.yelp.com/biz/zacs-quick-fix-phone-hut-san-jose-7 Best, --David KM6RI

AT&T uses laser based TDR measurements to determine breaks in their fiber lines.? (Ask me how I know) Dick

TDR is sort of like radar for a transmission line.? If you have a long coax from your shack across the house and up the tower, a TDR can be useful to figure out where the cable is kinked and causing

Here's mine. This is the presentation summary. No where nearly as interesting or history-laden as Jeff's! Instant Tuning for a Manual Tuner Connie Stillinger W6EFI A random wire with a small manual

Sorry, Doug SLAC is Stanford Linear Accelerator LBL is Lawrence Berkeley Labs. Not LLL, Livermore Labs. Was LRL, Lawrence Radiation Labs, when I was really little. Still have a couple surplus

SLAC once stood for Stanford Linear Accelerator. The Department of Energy runs it on land leased from Stanford. Due to a trademark dispute, it's just SLAC now. Stanford is no longer part of the

Guys would you please explain abbreviations.? ?I have? no idea what any of them mean. SLAC. ??? LBL ??? PEP. ??? TDR. ??? But I thoroughly enjoyed Jeff's article.? ?Excellent writing. Doug, KI6DS