Or spend the least on radios. I call my Corsair my $200 radio for a reason. I got my Johnson KW Matchbox for nothing. Other radios, maybe I spent money on. One of the better reflectors, this one, sma
There is a whole sub-culture of people working with OCF's. There is a Yahoo group. There is a rather nice website by Serge Stroobrandt, ON4AA, with links to a lot of the literature and his own design
Gosh. In the midst of the OCF discussion one of the answers for where to use a 4:1 balun just has to be for an OCF dipole. Most people now feed them at the 200 ohm point with a 4:1 Balun. There is ev
Yes, Tom Schiller, N6BT, founder of Force 12, ran DX using a light bulb followed by a common mode choke so he wasn't cheating using the feed line as the antenna. I believe he later ran a phased array
I found the article about the Illuminator project. It is a funny read. In 2000 he worked all continents with a TS-850S and a 150 watt bulb mounted on a four foot post fed through a common mode choke
Mike, You're matching the antenna system, the antenna and the feed line. You just can't separate the two. When the antenna impedance at a particular frequency is different from the feed line characte
Right. I was answering your question, "Why not move the balun 200 feet away, right up to the feed point?" At high SWR coax is lossy compared to OWL. I believe an 80 meter dipole used on 40 has an imp
I guess I'm the only guy who would like to hear more about OCFs probably because I'm half considering putting one up again. Maybe this time armed with more knowledge, a better balun, and a couple of
I'm surprised you're burning the tree at only 30' from the feed point. I wouldn't be surprised at a quarter wavelength out but 30' on 160 meters is maybe .05 wavelength out or something. Should be hi
Lightweight and stealthy has been my life too. What fiberglass masts? I have a few of the DK9SQ masts with extensions which I like a lot. I weave them up through trees so they stick out the top to su
I would like to turn on the 9420 and Hercules II from the 4 pin transceiver connector on the 9420. I've seen older posts but didn't quite get an answer or at least I couldn't figure it out. According
You can turn the power supply on from the four-pin transceiver connector on the back, all the power, not just the power for a transceiver as some have suggested. A small load from pin 3 to pin 1 will
I've been a ham since 1962 long before incentive licensing. There were plenty of terrible signals on the band back then. CW signals were raspy, chirpy, clicky, and drifty. AM signals were FMing, had