What I've been up to today ...

Carla and I were going to go to a special invitation-only party in San Francisco this evening, and I attended the monthly Amateur Technology Day at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center instead.

I needed to meet our ARRL Section Manager and another amateur regarding a special project that I'm working on ... I let everyone in on the good news after an approval process occurs in January ..Until then, I've decided to keep the project confidential ...

I'd feel awful to put out all the info on what it is, only to later find that I didn't get approval for it ..
Anyway, I'll share it if it looks promising ...

On the way back from "Amtech Day", I stopped at the local "Candy Store" and picked up an LDG "FT-meter" for my Yaesu FT-897D , and also the programming software for the radio. The software also came with the correct programing cable that plugs into the "CAT" port on the FT-897D. ...

The next stop was "Halted Electronics" in Sunnyvale in order to get some electronic parts for yet another project .. It is a simple one . .simply a pair of metal boxes with RF , and power connectors to be able to insert and drop DC power into and out of a coaxial antenna cable ...

I have an SGC model SG-237 automatic coupler and it requires 12 volts DC via a separate power source, so the plan is to duplex the DC power along with the RF on the antenna cable .. it doesn't make sense to go taping a separate twisted-pair jacketed cable on the outside of the RG-58/u , or RG-8/u cable when both can simply be run via the RF cable instead ...

So that was my day today .. had a great time and some hamburgers at the Amtech Day event ..

Elaine