Thank you all for your kind comments. I have some painting chores scheduled for the windows of the house and trim on the garage this Spring and ten it will be aerial design and installation time, along with laying out the transmission line and I should be good to go.
Mike. Morse is no longer mandatory for a Basic Licence here in Canada. It can be added to your qualifications at any time, however, and the speed required is also 5 wpm.
The 19-Set can indeed be a challenge to run 'tidy'. assuming all the components are all in good working order. It does help a great deal to fire it up a good 20 minutes to half an hour before going on the air to let things warm up and stabilize as, as you alluded to, they can drift quite a bit after the power is first turned on. Also, prior to the advent of cable TV, over the air Channel 3 TV used to be really prone to picking up harmonics from the 19-Sets operating range. Not nearly as common today and with the right filters on your transmission line things run pretty smoothly.
David
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