The S-38E has a sad optimism about it, like a rescue puppy or Charlie Brown's Christmas tree. It knows how close it was to being thrown into outer darkness (the landfill) and its gratitude shows.
My Grandpa had a S-38 receiver just like that. My brother had it restored from a member of his club. Knowing all of the knowledge that I know now from the SolderSmoke podcast, I may have to inspect his work!
Hey Bill, looking good! Question - what percentage of night time there will allow for sky gazing? And, being so close to the eastern end of the island does KP4 land usually take the brunt of any westward moving big storms and take the "heat" off of the Dominican Republic? Enjoy your time in the southern CP! 73 - Dino KLØS
Dino: I talked about the astronomy stuff on the blog. As for the hurricanes, direct hits are pretty rare here. PR to the East may help, but I remember when this good fortune was attributed to the supposedly supernatural powers of a certain (now deceased) Dominican President. 73 Bill
Very, very cool!!!!, I have only been licensed about 11months,(did the foundation intermediate then full within a few weeks of each other, best thing I ever done!!)i love your videos, I'm designing and building all my own gear, I've got a really cool "ammo tin lunch box"to build a portable HF rig in, I'll send you a photo when it's done, anyway thanks for keeping the homebrew art alive and especially for promoting it!!, you're a legend!!73s from the UK -scott M0KJZ
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Fantastic! Thanks for sharing!
Very cool station and a big thumbs up for your HW-8. Love the location 🙂 73 de wa4jat
The S-38E has a sad optimism about it, like a rescue puppy or Charlie Brown's Christmas tree. It knows how close it was to being thrown into outer darkness (the landfill) and its gratitude shows.
My Grandpa had a S-38 receiver just like that. My brother had it restored from a member of his club. Knowing all of the knowledge that I know now from the SolderSmoke podcast, I may have to inspect his work!
Love an operating station with a view to the horizon where DX is waiting.
Love the radioshack portable receiver. I have a similar one (DX392) with cassette. Pretty good radio I bought in 93 and still works.
I took this one on an official trip to Haiti back in '94. I did a lot of work on the DX390 -- see the blog for details. 73
Bill
Hey Bill, looking good! Question - what percentage of night time there will allow for sky gazing? And, being so close to the eastern end of the island does KP4 land usually take the brunt of any westward moving big storms and take the "heat" off of the Dominican Republic? Enjoy your time in the southern CP! 73 - Dino KLØS
Dino: I talked about the astronomy stuff on the blog. As for the hurricanes, direct hits are pretty rare here. PR to the East may help, but I remember when this good fortune was attributed to the supposedly supernatural powers of a certain (now deceased) Dominican President. 73 Bill
Very, very cool!!!!, I have only been licensed about 11months,(did the foundation intermediate then full within a few weeks of each other, best thing I ever done!!)i love your videos, I'm designing and building all my own gear, I've got a really cool "ammo tin lunch box"to build a portable HF rig in, I'll send you a photo when it's done, anyway thanks for keeping the homebrew art alive and especially for promoting it!!, you're a legend!!73s from the UK -scott M0KJZ
He will write back. He did when I sent him pics of things I built
Are you going to start portable operating? G7VFY