After looking at my Kenwood TL-922A HF amp languishing in it's carton since I moved to MO in October of 2021, I finally dragged it out, changed the mains transformer primary voltage to 120v and called it a day. I'm running it very conservatively, about 400-500 watts out but at least I can make contact with stations I hear now. First station worked today was a Chilean station (CE3QY) on my first call even with a pretty deep and raucus pile up. At this point, it's running off a dedicated 120v 20A circuit from the breaker panel.
I've been working on building a shop/shack in my barn but between absurd costs of building materials, bad back and a whole host of other issues, this is taking way longer than I was planning on. I'll have two 240VAC circuits in there for my amps as well as for running a split cooling/heating unit so I can live in there winter and summer.
Meanwhile, if the Bouvet DX-pedition ever comes to pass while I'm still set up in my front room in the house, I'll stand a chance of working them now. I think North Korea is the only other country that is rarer that Bouvet.
I've been working on building a shop/shack in my barn but between absurd costs of building materials, bad back and a whole host of other issues, this is taking way longer than I was planning on. I'll have two 240VAC circuits in there for my amps as well as for running a split cooling/heating unit so I can live in there winter and summer.
Meanwhile, if the Bouvet DX-pedition ever comes to pass while I'm still set up in my front room in the house, I'll stand a chance of working them now. I think North Korea is the only other country that is rarer that Bouvet.
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