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World Wide Basement Radio 6935 AM 0025 UTC 13 MAY 2024
WWBR:
Thanks for the patience listening in this mess, peeps. Bands are *awful*. I'm surprised it got anywhere with the solar flare.
I was only doing about 45w at +120%, about 10w dead carrier, while I was bringing the CRL processing back online. I finally just plain gave up on the Optimod HF I had... I've spent literally months inside that thing replacing caps and stuff, but the 35+ years it spent in a musty old barn was just too much for it. Doesn't help that it was a prototype unit with hand-etched boards and many little "secret" potted circuits that even Orban/CRL couldn't describe!
It was actually a 9100 with major modifications and didn't have the "memory" circuits the retail 9105 units had. Frankly, the CRL units sound *way* better IMO. I gave the thing to my "radio museum curator" buddy.
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