Yes, it was fun to build and operate, but it is just not right.\u00a0 The FREQ-Mite audio level is too high (even after increasing the inline resistor to one megohm), and the RF power output is too low.\u00a0 Lacking any real test equipment (such as a means to measure inductance) I am not sure the little radio will ever be what should be.\u00a0 The question is: will the NorCal 40B make its way back to the operating desk or just become a knickknack on the shelf?\u00a0 Time will tell, but at this point my hopes are not very high.<\/p>\n
Footnote: The morning after the above post just before pulling the NorCal 40B offline I had a very nice QSO with a station about 580 miles away.\u00a0 So even at a max of 1.5 watts out I can still work other stations and have a real QSO.\u00a0 It is important to point out the other station was very loud in North Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yes, it was fun to build and operate, but it is just not right.\u00a0 The FREQ-Mite audio level is too high (even after increasing the inline resistor to one megohm), and the RF power output is too low.\u00a0 Lacking any real test equipment (such as a means to measure inductance) I am not sure the\u2026 Continue Reading ‘Back on the bench for the NorCal 40B’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freq-mite","category-norcal-40b","category-projects","category-qrp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3690,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions\/3690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}