Meteor Scatter with the TS-990 - Are you sure?

Well,

Fiddling around in the shack this morning and I thought I would share with you a video of the TS-990 being used in conjunction with Gemini 4 linear for Meteor Scatter in JT6M mode.

Local conditions.

More CQ on them there Meteor Trails

Well,

Further to my earlier post, I found after about 8 or so TXs on JT6M, my linear was tripping out due to "over temp" today.

I dropped an email to the DX Shop:

http://www.thedxshop.com/

And within about 5 mins I had a very helpful reply!

Under instruction from the manufacturers I have adjusted the trip level. This involved removing the cover of the amplifier, wow, what neat construction:

Here's Freddie, who seems to be resting in a plant pot today:

Impressive, egh?

Weighing scales? No, Meter Scales!

Well,

No after all the effort and learning that went into the 4M and 6M linear, I finally decided that I either needed to invest some money in all the correct bits to make one properly, or I needed to buy something. I ended up purchasing this:

The unit is currently propped up by an old computer and stuck on the floor - the amplifier seems to be a most excellent piece of equipment; I have had mine configured for 25W of drive and I am getting the expected levels of RF out on both 50MHz and 70MHz i.e. just over 300W.

I wanted to have a good power meter on the back end of the amplifier, but didn't want to make another one like my proper homebrew meter from here:

http://g0mgx.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/scaling-heights-of-power.html

so I ended up creating a new scale for one of my mechanical meters I have. I haven't changed any of the internal workings jut made a scale with the numbers on that I wanted; n the high power range before you had to double the reading on the scale and the original scale was also very cluttered with a number of different number sets, here's the new one:

Its printed well and looks great in the meter. I am very pleased with the result - this has been created using software by Tonne Software:

http://tonnesoftware.com/

So all in all it's looking just great.

Good, egh?