Too quiet around here...

[MN785]

...so I will post about this afternoon's projects. #1, getting the girlfriend off my butt about the television reception. A while back I built a 600MHz yagi to get an OTA station from about 70 miles away. A once-great signal has deteriorated into an intermittent attack on our relationship (I hate TV, she is addicted to it) and I'm guessing the birds landing on the scrap metal gamma match pecking seeds finally done it in. My VNA has a remote control feature so I can control it from my phone over the wifi, I just need to connect it up and climb the tower and fiddle with it. #2, putting the 4 wheeler motor back together. A bearing in the secondary transmission fell apart and locked everything up. An ATV parts website wanted $70 for the bearing, but the little numbers on the side found me one for $11 on McMaster-Carr. #3, I have an antenna to build for a local interested in CB. His brother is giving him a cobra 25, we just need to find some coax. I am out of 50Ω so we might be using 75Ω. My friend is starting up a local CB radio club up here so hopefully we can get his brother on the air.

What are all of you up to???

[295 antenna]

I'm digging out some am only radios and testing them. Trouble is finding the matching microphones. That if I haven't reperposed them for other radios.

[MN785]

I'm digging out some am only radios and testing them. Trouble is finding the matching microphones. That if I haven't reperposed them for other radios.

It would be nice to have a desk mic with a 5 pin cord that had dip switches on the bottom to assign functions to each pin, then also have a 5 pin to 4 pin adapter cord making it almost universal. Add to that a few switches so that RX can be activated for radios requiring that, one so the TX can be held down, another to isolate the mic, and an adjustable tone generator built in for test tone generation and CW. Maybe even a multi-tap transformer for changing the microphones impedance. It would make the ultimate test mic for checking and working on radios!

[295 antenna]

sounds like a project to me lol