Last Updated on February 25, 2012 by g6nhu After I replaced the balun and coax tails on my MA-5B, I posted recently to say I wasn’t quite as happy with the results as I could have been. I contacted Bob at Balun Designs who suggested that if I’d made the coax tails a different length […]
Month: February 2012
Winding coils for various radio projects
Last Updated on February 23, 2012 by g6nhu Over the last few days I’ve found myself winding coils for construction projects. I dug out my MKARS80 kit from where it’s been sitting for the best part of a year and the next stage was fitting some trifilar wound transformers. These are made by lightly twisting […]
The CQ WPX RTTY Contest 2012
Last Updated on February 14, 2012 by g6nhu Anyone who follows me on Twitter or reads this site will have noticed that I was planning on taking part in the CQ WPX RTTY contest last weekend and that I was keen to sort my aerial out in advance. I lowered the mast, fitted my new […]
A replacement balun for my Cushcraft MA-5B from Balun Designs
Last Updated on April 30, 2017 by g6nhu After the investigative work a couple of weeks ago where I tracked the fault on my Cushcraft MA-5B to the cable between the balun (matching network) and the 12m/17m element I decided that I wanted to replace the entire balun, including the two coax tails out to […]
Statistics – January 2012
Last Updated on February 1, 2012 by g6nhu I’m keen to continue posting the monthly statistics posts so I can keep a track of how things are going and so that I can compare against last years figures. I’ve made over double the number of QSOs in January this year compared to 2011 and I’m […]
