A brief update, of sorts. Though the sine wave is not great, it is perfectly good for testing filters and SWR meters, however… As you can see in the picture, I have ~0.8v peak to peak. At about 7.1MHz the VPP jumps up to ~2.5v, which is much more desireable. Because I am seeing this […]
All Portable Discussion Zone group build #1
On our second podcast gathering we launched our first group build project. We are building a signal generator, a sine-wave oscillator that should cover the HF ham bands. We are using the Soldersmoke Podcast Discord server for the group builds, mostly because there are a lot of people on there who are a lot better […]
Mosley traps: another look.
I recently acquired a second Mosley triband, this one has the higher power traps and – more importantly – it is complete. The Mosley that I have been using for the past year has been shaken by wind and probably mostly birds, and the director is not parallel to the other elements, so it needs […]