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Working Conditions It's took a long time to finally get on the air in 3C. Myself and Hans (the guy who took care of business on Jade when I was at home who is also a Ham) were given an old Icom-738 which was sat in an office gathering dust. This duly arrived after about 4 months of waiting.....things move slow in West Africa. Anyway, when it finally arrived, |
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rewired the PSU to work on 110V. I hooked up the helicopter beacon long wire antenna along
with a morse key and was on air! Only problem was there was no microphone. So when I
returned I took the stock mic for my Icom 746 and we were both on the air with CW &
phone too. I love to work CW but am not so fast on the key, need more practice. However, I
now consider myself quite proficient in CW since working many pile-ups :-) The IC-738 is currently stowed in my cabin drawer on ZP, waiting for me to erect another antenna for it to push it's 100W through. |
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