Tuesday, 28 November 2023

Wow! One more!

 OPS! I've got an aquistic guitarr. Nice and easy to play. That might be as it is a Fender. All Fenders are easy to play!? Looks OK.

To the bad news. I've got around 1' (30 cm) of the white fluff. To early and just more work! At the moment it is snowing and temp is around 28 F (2 C). It is predicted to 1' more of the fluff.


Snow!


Fender CS60





Saturday, 2 September 2023

Not so much radio at the moment. But a lot of guitar work

 I have done a lot of interesting play with my instruments. I got a hold of a Les Paul made by Epiphone and that is supported by Gibson. and cost is about a 10:th of the cost of a original Gibson. And this is equippped with Humbucker and it sounds just fine through my 100 W Fender Amp. 


Take a look! And I have a few more!


A Telecaster!


A Stratocaster


And a Jazz Bass

The only thing that is missing is a drum set. But my house is to small and I don't have room for a drum set.

Well, summer is almost gone and darkness is coming down on us. Så back to playing.

Take care!

Thursday, 16 March 2023

Rare QSL arrived!

 Received QSL from my QSO's with FT8WW, Thierry. He has made over 50 000 QSO's with only him self as operator. Hat off!!!! And Thanks for both QSL and upload to LoTW.

Now I'm waiting for QSL from Bouvet 3Y0J. Managed to work them on some band slots. Bouvet has upload to LoTW. Both Crozet and Bouvet was ATNO for me. But I still have 12 to go!


CUL


Tuesday, 28 February 2023

A little bit of "Fuzz"!

 I had to build an old type of pedal to my tube amp. I is a Fuzz with only 2 transistors, So I found a kit on the net. Odered it and it arrived within 2 days! Thanks!

Easy to assembly. I put it together in 30 minutes. And it works as it is supposed to do! So now I can make a lot of noise!!!!

CUL





Monday, 20 February 2023

Amazing Amp!

 I found this Tube Amp on You Tube. It has a 12" Celestion Seventy80 speaker. 3 X 12AX7 (ECC83) and 2 X EL84 (6BQ5) power tubes. Price tag was 250$. And it sounds just super with my Fender Strat. Puts out around 15 W and switch to around 1 W for home use.


 



Wonder how they can sell them so cheap. Brand is Harly Benton. But it is found under different brands as Stage Right by Monoprice. Harly Benton is from Thomann in Germany for EU and Stage Right in US I think.

WX here in Sweden is not so good! A lot of white fluff in the air and predicted around 12" of it!! Temp is -3 C (28 F).  CUL

Thursday, 7 July 2022

Fixed an old Hallicrafter SR-400A

 I've got a SR-400A to restore. It was some work to replace the old cap's and install a relay in the power supply. Purpose with the relay is to take away the current in the ON/OFF switch on the radio. The radio only has to handle the relay current. The radio work just fine. Had some issues with some old tubes. But all was solved. I will show some pictures now.

For my struggel on 6 m to achive a DXCC is showing some progress. So far I have managed to get 11 new ones. TT8SN and PJ4MM to mention a few. And all so far is LoTW users. Still missing IS0 that I worked a few days ago. Slow upload to LoTW??!!







WX in this part of Sweden has been hot. But at the moment we have light rain and temp is 14 C (57 F).

CUL

Thursday, 7 April 2022

An accessorie for my FTdx101MP





 GM to you all.

I managed to get hold of a FH-2 Remote pad for my FTdx101MP. Might be usefull during same contests. I also got the book "radio today, guide to the FTdx101MP/D". Nice! It is not a manual. It is some usefull hints and kicks. And also some usefull tips on how to get the most out of the 101.

Worked RI1PB sitting on EU-086. A new one for me. Question is how to get QSL! Hope the conflict/war with Ukraine will end soon!

We have got some setback in the wether. I've got 1,5 dm of the fluff yesterday. And today and tomorrow we will get more fluff. So I have to keep the stud tires on my car a bit longer.