Funny you should mention the corn, because I just sat down to enjoy a leftover snack of corn, shucked, stripped and fried with a little butter, salt and pepper. This sounds too close to Jurassic Park to be interesting, although it's been 30 years or so for new audiences. I wonder what the angle was to make it different. BTW I loved the theme to Jurassic Park, by John Williams. It was fun to pick out on the piano to find those rich chords.
These days, I'm mostly reading headlines, but I did manage to find the ICOM IC-7300 service manual online, to see if it discussed the cutout voltage at which the radio would turn off, beyond the operating specs, if not getting enough juice to run properly/avoid damage. You see, I bought a field battery from Bioenno that I hoped would be able to support a good run time, but was watching the radio's voltage gauge go dangerously close to the red mark while transmitting at 50W a digital protocol called JS8Call. I'll probably call the battery company and ask for the discharge curves, and go from there. I tried to post a picture, but this box wouldn't accept a CTRL^V (so much for my reading)
Yum, your fried corn sounds delicious. Preston knows the story is a riff off Jurassic Park, has the characters mention it on more than one occasion. Here, it’s not the animals doing the killing, it’s something else. Picking on the piano sounds fun. Seems like the radio is sucking the current out of your battery. How far can you Tx/Rx?
I'm restricted through my HOA to antenna size/shape. But I can usually get out to most of the southeast - Louisiana/Texas/North Georgia using SSB voice with my End Fed Half Wave (EFHW) wire antenna stretched across the yard on 20 and 40 meter bands. I have it low to the ground, about 12' and horizontal, which is called NVIS mode, where I can also reach all around Florida. Usually there is a gap 80 - 500 miles wide with traditional antennas that this overcomes. But with digital, I can reach around the country (CONUS). Receiving has longer range. I have picked up several European stations, but more difficult to reach them with SSB voice. I would need a different antenna configuration - one higher up, like 50'. But really haven't tried that hard.
Funny you should mention the corn, because I just sat down to enjoy a leftover snack of corn, shucked, stripped and fried with a little butter, salt and pepper. This sounds too close to Jurassic Park to be interesting, although it's been 30 years or so for new audiences. I wonder what the angle was to make it different. BTW I loved the theme to Jurassic Park, by John Williams. It was fun to pick out on the piano to find those rich chords.
These days, I'm mostly reading headlines, but I did manage to find the ICOM IC-7300 service manual online, to see if it discussed the cutout voltage at which the radio would turn off, beyond the operating specs, if not getting enough juice to run properly/avoid damage. You see, I bought a field battery from Bioenno that I hoped would be able to support a good run time, but was watching the radio's voltage gauge go dangerously close to the red mark while transmitting at 50W a digital protocol called JS8Call. I'll probably call the battery company and ask for the discharge curves, and go from there. I tried to post a picture, but this box wouldn't accept a CTRL^V (so much for my reading)
Yum, your fried corn sounds delicious. Preston knows the story is a riff off Jurassic Park, has the characters mention it on more than one occasion. Here, it’s not the animals doing the killing, it’s something else. Picking on the piano sounds fun. Seems like the radio is sucking the current out of your battery. How far can you Tx/Rx?
I'm restricted through my HOA to antenna size/shape. But I can usually get out to most of the southeast - Louisiana/Texas/North Georgia using SSB voice with my End Fed Half Wave (EFHW) wire antenna stretched across the yard on 20 and 40 meter bands. I have it low to the ground, about 12' and horizontal, which is called NVIS mode, where I can also reach all around Florida. Usually there is a gap 80 - 500 miles wide with traditional antennas that this overcomes. But with digital, I can reach around the country (CONUS). Receiving has longer range. I have picked up several European stations, but more difficult to reach them with SSB voice. I would need a different antenna configuration - one higher up, like 50'. But really haven't tried that hard.