Throw some salt in it along with a 3 inch ID copper pipe about 12 feet long. Or Cannon Ball !!! Jim -- Jim _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com ht
Tie everything and any thing you can to ground or ground side of the antenna. this will reduce noise. Especially on top bands. Lighting is a hazard. Best is to disconnect radio from antenna and groun
Hi Jimmy B. I have been doing some measurements with My bird Watt meter. 50 ohm match through a 1:2 balun. Input impedance to inverted L is 25 ohms. SWR is about 1.3:1 however Forward power 200 watts
Sounds like your on the right track. I have change my email address to this one and have been changing forums and the sort over. Sorry for the delay. Water pipe from building thats outside is good to
I have a Tec Tec Auto Coupler that is turned off and a Ten Tec Hercules II at full power. The SWR bridges in side the equipment reads well over SWR over 3:1 on certain bands while my BIRD Watt meter
I have an AS-50-L1 unu;n balun from Array Solutions. Does not matter where I place it problem still exists. -- Jim K9TF _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@cont
I will be in San Diego, CA on Field Day weekend. Any good Field Day site to visit with some Top Band operators? I will be staying a few miles form Miramar visiting my daughter and new grandson. -- Ji
Hi Mike, WB8VGE Hope your surgery goes well for you. I have gone and still going thru issues with my inverted L on 160M like your having. How long is your antenna? Is it a dipole or Folded dipole? I
Hi Mike, WB8VGE Oh I all ways forget some things to say or ask. Does your antenna have traps? Is it fedd with open feed line or a single coax cable? Jim, K9TF -- Jim K9TF ____________________________
Hi Again Mike Read through the archives on this subject so I wrote down my thoughts on this and what I have tried. Extra feed line you can coil up before point of entry maybe 3 foot diameter. I had 4
Again another thought. Remove any baluns. At the antenna and feed line point of connections try 100pF cap across the feed line and see how it tunes. Try shorting your open line on the transmitter sid
Is your antenna a single wire dipole, Folded dipole, what? Trying to figure out your feed point impedance. Try placing a coil about 10 to 12 turns of #12 insulated wire between each half of your feed
Ten-Tec like other tuners have a hard time tuning 160M. Any information on this subject is very helpful. I wish some one would sell a tuner that will tune 45 foot to 300 feet of a single wire antenna
Rick, I like your answer. I agree with the others too. Make the external tuner for 160, and 80 and auto tuner, with a remote bypass so you can use the tuner in the sack for the other bands. Mount the
I have a 253 Auto coupler and MFJ 989B. The MFJ998RT in the shop for repairs from abuse. Non of these tuners will tune 160M on their own. Each of these I had to add an inductor L network for 160M. Ev
My inductors are about 25uH in series and 25uH to ground. Best that I can calculate from online calculators. Jim K9TF -- Jim K9TF _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list T
To connect a Mac computer to the Eagle I would need some sort of cable connector cable from the Eagle with what type of connector? Then to a USB connector to the Mac. Is that right? So what software
Thank you for your comments. Sure wish Ten Tec should support a Driver to Run on the Mac to update the radio. If Logging programs can interface to the Eagle why can't Ten Tec come up with a Native Dr