Today again I tried to get my Epson Styles 510sx printer to print a letter for me.
As usual it does not work. This is the worst printer I have ever had in my live.
It always says the cartridges are empty. Of course they are not. If you finally get some ink on the paper then is super bad quality and you have to clean the ink canals form the printer.
There is only one way with this printer, in the trash can.
And believe me never but never by an Epson printer!!
During tuning Before the last 144Mhz contest we found out that one of the gs35 amps gave not enough power. We replaced the amp then by another one. I found now that the the problem was that a wire with high voltage one it connected to the the tube was broken. I fixed it and power is there again. Another one has a problem at start up so thats the next one one the table.
A little late this year, but today I removed the two wire beverage antennas and the fiberglass poles on witch they are mounted.
Today I made my first qso on 4 meter with Jan PA0VAJ.
We had some difficulties finding why we had so bad rx. We txed on 14.040 and found that with a small wire as antenna we had more rx as with the HB9CV witch is situated on a small pipe outside. We looked at the yagi with I not had aligned yet and Jan found a shortage at the connector. We have put in a better capacitor and a better connector now it is working fine.
Last year I already build a 4 meter transverter. I only had to connect it to an HF radio. I decided to make a switch box so I can choose between the standard FTV1000 who is behind the FT1000MP and the 4 meter transverter. This is working fine Now. Jan PA0VAJ build me a small PA so I have now 2 watt. No I am not going to run qrp. A bigger amp already is build but I need more drive power.