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New Amp Arrived!
I decided that I needed a little more power so I could run during contests. After discussions with the wife, I ordered an AL-1200 for the shack. Received it on Friday June 30th. After a brief setup process, I was going to chat with some guys on 75m. Well, the higher power gave new light to a station limitation, I smoked the 80M dipole because of water in the feedline. I was sure suprised when I looked at it Saturday morning. I replaced the feedline on the dipole and didn't have a problem after that, even with 1500 watts.
Friday night, I did get one of the guys on 20 and we had a chat while working the dx that dropped by the frequency. I had to go upstairs and do the family bedtime ritual, but returned later. When I returned, I decided to play around a little with the RAC Canada Contest. I was on about an hour and a half and worked 120 stations with the rate meter steadily increasing. That was really fun! On Saturday, I did more testing of the amp with the other antennas at the station and didn't find any other problems. The old amp, the AL-811, is going to be installed on the second radio for obvious reasons. I will probably have to get some bandpass filters if I want to run SO2R HP. Right now, I think I can get by until the fall contest season without them. I am hoping that after the IARU contest to disassemble the shack and start building walls and getting it a little more complete. As it stands right now, there are no walls or ceiling around the shack. The ceiling is going to be a huge improvement, especially since the shack is right under the master bedroom. My wife did say she could hear me running on 20 SSB Friday night. Why does it seem that the shack is never complete? Comments
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